Sailing Into The Mystic

10/31/2025

Late on getting Episode 42 out. But it’s because we are putting in long work days on the boat so we can leave! In this episode we reveal our cat problem 🐈‍⬛ 🐈

In this Episode, we finally reveal a struggle we are having even before we begin sailing the world. Yes, we know that other sailors are sailing with their ca...

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween! This year our Halloween decorations are all about scaring the birds away.

10/30/2025

Ugh, we STILL haven’t left yet! We have been putting in 10-12 hour work days trying to finish the projects we absolutely must do while we are still here in the US. We hope to be done in about another week which is about 4-5 weeks later than we originally planned, lol.

10/20/2025

If you’d like some comic relief for your Monday, have fun with Episode 41 that just posted;

In this episode of Sailing Into the Mystic, we complete two projects we have been avoiding for too long. We fix the plumbing for one of the heads to elimina...

10/18/2025

Almost every single day this summer and fall we have been working on the boat. We are getting down to the wire because we are trying to leave before the Baja HaHa does on Nov 3. Today we are finally disconnecting our batteries to put in our new lithium battery.

10/13/2025

Episode 40 just got posted, with finally our DIY swim step build!

Watch as we custom build our own DIY swim step. This is where we will be watching the sunrise with our feet splashing in the sea and coffee mugs in our hands...

10/06/2025

Working on our toerail today.

10/05/2025

https://youtu.be/nh9Pn0Xm_9g?si=KdqZLTr7Ro2RAb4o

We finish the solar arch build, but not without many complications and a steep learning curve about how to continue with our boat projects while on the moori...

09/24/2025

After a little travel break, here is episode 38… and guess what? Only one more episode and we will be basically caught up to real time!

Time marches on and we are getting closer to the day when we finally depart into our retirement sailing. But there is still so much to do. We have a plan, ...

09/10/2025

We just released Ep 37! Coming out a few days late because we were handling a few extra things on our plate (officiating a wedding on the Mystic is one of them-woohoo). This one slows down time a little to show the details of our solar arch build where there are many decisions to grapple with as well as problem solving opportunities.

In this episode we slow down time to show the details of our work on our custom solar arch. As usual, it takes longer than the time we budget for it, but we...

09/03/2025

Worrying about hurricane Lorena… heading straight for our place in Mexico. Reminds us of Hurricane Hilary just 2 years ago that gave us the gift of 2 feet high mud….
(Update: Lorena hit land south of us so our place wasn’t hit this time)

In this episode we take a detour from our usual sailing adventures and projects to share a deeply personal moment in our retirement journey. Our future retir...

09/02/2025

With retirement so close and still so many boat projects, we are trying to keep up with our wishful target date for sailing south in the fall. This is how our year started …

Retirement is within 6 months and we have SO much to do. One of the projects is to build our solar arch so that we will be self sufficient with power once w...