A Dream Turned Reality. A Bit About Us.

We love boats and being on the water. We had a 26-foot speedboat that we enjoyed on Colorado lakes and a yearly week-long houseboat trip to Lake Powell. It was a way for our family to escape and enjoy just being together. The water has been our “happy place”. There’s just something about being on the fly bridge, slowly and quietly making your way to a destination unknown. It was thrilling. Lake Powell was a family destination for years and every outing was different.

Our lives were full to the brim with being the parents of 5 growing children, running a business, maintaining friendships and Dave having his job as an airline pilot. We live a very active lifestyle and wanted a lot more than simply maintaining our current suburban living arrangements after the kids were grown. We have been skiers and hikers in the Colorado Mountains since 2012 and have started to lose the love for the cold. We discovered scuba diving in 2022 and diving has taken us to beautiful places all over the world and we feel very much at home in the water.

One evening we were flipping through YouTube for some new entertainment. A young couple on a sailboat appeared on our screen. Being the clickbait that it was, we clicked. The happy couple was making their way through unknown islands in the pacific with all of their possessions and not a worry in the world (aside from the weather). Dave said;

“I want to do THAT. What do you think?”

Done. That’s when the planning started. All five children were living in the house and we had four years until our youngest graduated high school and our twin daughters graduated College. There were a lot of things to prepare for… mentally, emotionally, logistically and financially. We didn’t know a single thing about boat life. So we dug our heals in and learned.

We attended courses; chartered boats; looked at hundreds, if not thousands of boats online; we went to numerous boat shows searching for the “right” boat. We had finally narrowed it down and said it out loud.

“We want a class A ocean crossing vessel.”

We are pretty sure our children, family and friends all think we’re a little crazy, but we don’t want a conventional life. We are removing the boundaries. Now its time to start making new memories.