The Backstory:
Grace and Bill are college sweethearts that started dating in the fall of 2002. After we graduated from Manhattan College and obtained a Certified Public Accountant License we thought it was time to invest in a lifelong passion of Bill’s, sailing. In the summer of 2009 we bought our 1985 Sabre 36, Calico Skies as a place to escape Manhattan on the weekends. Gradually we started spending more and more time onboard, eventually giving up our Manhattan apartment to live on the boat for four to five months over the summer. We may have been the only finance professionals starting their day riding in a dinghy to the dock, at times rowing when the motor was broken. Spending our summers on the boat had us hooked and we put into place a plan to save enough money in order to travel full time.
In July 2016 Bill quit his job to get the boat fully prepared for her first trip south to the Caribbean. Grace was supposed to quit in the fall but she got cold feet and decided she wasn’t ready to leave her job. We decided that Bill would take the boat down singlehanded and Grace would fly in to visit while the boat was in the Caribbean. After spending a lot of quality time in the Caribbean during the winter of 2017 Grace was ready to leave, quitting her job in September 2017.
Since leaving NYC in the fall of 2017 we haven’t looked back! We’ve travelled over 25,000nm including two Atlantic crossings and visited more than 20 countries. . We decided to start documenting our travels on Youtube as we departed on a four thousand miles sail from Gibraltar in Europe to Grenada in the Caribbean.
We tend to be sporadic in our movements, often making long offshore jumps on a whim. We don’t always know where we’re going but we’re always going!