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Author: Elliot Schoenfeld
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Starting our Maiden Voyage with a harsh lesson on anchoring
It’s finally here, the time we take Pivot and leave our small marina in San Mateo, Florida. We new we wanted to live on the boat for about a week to give the systems a real test and start learning what boat life really entails, but I tell you what, we really had no clue…
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Christening our boat as we finally launch MV Pivot!
We aren’t too superstitions but when it came to renaming our boat we knew we wanted to follow the proper procedure. Called “christening”, we ceremonially removed the old name from the records and re-named our 1989 Marine Trader to Pivot. Overall it was a fun way to end our boat projects and begin the next…
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Painting fails getting our old boat to launch
For our second video of our launch series we come to realize what working on the boat really means… nothing works out as planned and everything takes longer than we thought. We are striving to get our boat into the water, so that we can begin our journey around America’s Great Loop, but we run…
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Cleaning and Repairing an Old Boat for Launch
Today we finally begin work on our new Marine Trader trawler. When we pulled it out from our sea trial we put it in a working area of the yard and we finally were able to begin working on our new adventure! Our top tasks until launch are: removing the old name, repairing the swim…
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Our Boat Buying Process including our Sea Trial and Marine Survey
After months of back and forth, we decided our next mode of transportation would be a 34′ 1989 Marine Trader! You might be wondering, why we chose this option considering our last video, we were tossing up a RV, Camper Van, or an old Sailboat. We’ll really the decision came down to our 5 year…
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Comparing Boat Life, RV Life, Van Life
In today’s video we travel across town comparing and contrasting our options for our next step! We are sure that we at least want to travel safely domestically with the pandemic and so each of these options keep us out of international airports and the possibility of transferring the virus to communities already hurting. While…
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Welcome from An Urban Journey!
First off, thank you to all of our family, friends, and followers that have caught up with our journey around the world last year! As you may or may not know, Jenn and I had a pretty routine life before our trip. We studied at a good high school, worked to get good degrees from…