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Author: Elliot Schoenfeld
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The Best Boating Essential Toolkit for Full-Time Cruisers
After living on a boat and doing all the maintenance ourselves for 2.5 years, we upgraded our tools to find the essential boating toolkit. Boats (Break Out Another Thousand) always require work, and having the right tools will save you time, money, and headaches! We listed all the tools below in our tool kit and…
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9 Boat Maintenance Tips: Keep Your Boat in Ship Shape
After spending three years owning, living aboard, and cruising 10,000 miles on our 1989 34’ Trawler, we learned the specific actions to keep our boat in ship shape. These boat maintenance tips kept our engine healthy and our boat floating and made our boating life enjoyable! If you’re new to boat ownership like we were,…
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Our Experience Living on a Boat For 3 Years
We bought an old Trawler in January 2021 and lived on that boat until we sold her in September 2023. Our boating lifestyle consisted of full-time cruising, where we would stay in place for one night, all the way to our longest stay of three months! We traveled across the Eastern United States while journeying…
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Everything you need to know about Great Loop boats
Many factors make a boat feasible for the Great Loop. Like most things in life, there is “no perfect boat.” Boats are a series of compromises, and Great Loop boats are no exception. We’ve compiled everything you need to know about Great Loop boats, including the minimum requirements, the top current Great Loop boats, how…
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Cruising from Miami through Fort Lauderdale with over 20 bridges
Hailing and navigating bridges can sometimes be challenging, so today, while we cruise almost 50 miles we share some tips and tricks to navigate safely and efficiently! We kick off the day leaving No Name Harbor, Key Biscayne and travel through Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and more on the way to Delray Beach!
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Tips for saving diesel on an old trawler
We’ve had many comments on how rising diesel prices would affect our Loop and thought we’d share some fuel saving tips! Our old Trawler engine sips Diesel, but that doesn’t mean it always does. In this video we go over the following: 1. Finding your most fuel efficient RPM 2. Tips for running your Generator…
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Last ocean cruise in the Florida Keys to our protected hurricane hole (No Name Harbor, Key Biscayne)
Today we have an early departure and long cruise from John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park as our destination is No Name Harbor, Key Biscayne. We initially hoped to visit Christ in the Deep, offshore Key Largo but as always the weather rules! We hope you enjoy our trials and tribulations heading North on the…
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From rough seas to glass (a full day cruising from Islamorada to Key Largo on the Great Loop)
Time to leave our anchorage in Islamorada and cruise to John Pennekamp State Park in Key Largo! We try to mix up cruising and having fun because to maintain our course for the Great Loop, you have to. If you have too much fun, you’ll fall behind and won’t make the seasons, OR if you…
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Shark, dolphin, crocodiles and more exploring Everglades National Park
Time to hop off our trawler and onto an Everglades Skiff as our subscriber, Rainer, takes us on a unique Everglades National Park tour. Growing up on the water in Florida, Rainer has had a lifetime of experience and decided to pick us up and share some of his favorite spots. We start off by…
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Cruising on the gulf from Marathon to Islamorada (North on the Great Loop)
The weather is finally looking up, so it’s time to leave Boot Key Harbor, Marathon! We first have to make it under the 7 Mile Bridge and then find our way back to the ICW all the way to Islamorada in the Florida Keys! We are cruising to happy hour at, probably the best place…
