Friday, December 1, 2017

December 2017 Update! Busy summer!

Sorry for the long delay! Here's an update.
We had a very busy summer! We did a bunch of traveling this summer- 5 weddings, a week in Missouri, Denver, and several boat trips. In all of that travel madness we did a bunch of work on the house! While we didn't spend as much time as we would like on the boat, we did set ourselves up nicely for when we plan to sell the house. The major projects we had to tackle at our house were growing grass in the yard, removing abestos siding, residing the house, fixing up the porch, among other things. We had a lot of help from our parents in fixing up the house (thanks mom and dad!), which means we won't be doing a mad dash before we sell the house.

We've gotten a bunch of questions on timeline for our adventure so here's the VERY high level schedule:

December-March: Finish house, organize our belonging for epic garage sale, prep boat for adventure
April: Put house on market, quit jobs, have epic garage sale
May: Hopefully have buyer for house, move aboard Maya
June/July: Sail everyday, continue boat projects, explore PNW waters
August: Drive jeep/trailer with all our stuff we didn't sell back to KC where stuff will live while we are travelling (thanks Chris and Debbie!!)
End of August: Start sailing south with Coho Hoho fleet- see www.cohohoho.com for more info.
October: Arrive in San Diego. Make final adjustments to boat.
November: Don't really know, but we think we will head into Mexico at this point.



As far as boat projects go, we have had some time to think about what we want/needto do to the boat. The list includes:
-Navigation computer
-Add solar panels (big project)
-Battery upgrade (if we feel we need more power storage capacity).
-Fender holders
-Perimeter mesh (protection for Disco)
-On deck Fuel jerry can bracing
-Add foot pump to galley sink
-Cockpit table
-many other little projects

I'll make more updates to the blog as we tackle these projects.

Here are some pictures from trips we took this summer as well as a video recap of our adventure to Roche Harbor.

Video link: 


Enroute to Roche Harbor

 Happy sailors

Made it to Roche Harbor!

 Roche Harbor at night

Very fun happy hour aboard Maya! 

At James Island 

We put a new sticker on Maya- I think it looks pretty good!


Maya moored at James Island State Park

James Island State Park

Family pic at James Island

Maya at James Island

And since I mentioned all the work we put into the house this year I thought I would show some pics of the progress!

What we started with
During- note the grass!

And done!

The side of the house- the white tiles are asbestos

The during

After!


Before we grew grass

And After!


The porch before


The porch after!

Giant hole in the floor from an old chimney 

And after- hole is gone!