Author: Elliot Schoenfeld

The journey to this point was not a straight line for us. After being locked down in India, we weighed our options and bought this old Marine Trader Trawler, and then spent time fixing and learning the real life details for boat life. Do we feel confident about living on the boat? Definitely not. We…

Our Maiden Voyage is finally coming to an end! We took a day off vlogging to explore Blue Springs State Park and it was amazing. Normally you can boat up the channel and see the beautiful springs close up, however, in the winter it is a manatee refuge. No boats or kayaks are allowed, but…

Finally we have the day we were hoping since we started the trip! Today we left Astor Bridge Marina, in Astor Florida and head back southbound on the St. Johns River. We left early and had some help from Ted ( a resident at the marina) which led us to a successful departure! We were…

Day two of our maiden voyage was definitely the worst of our entire trip. After getting hardly any sleep yesterday during our first attempt anchoring, we decided that we needed to recover at a marina and get caught up on some sleep. We left Lake George and decided to stop at the closest marina, in…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…