Embrace your Pivots

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…