At some point, what started as a conversation turned into a decision… and then into something much bigger.

We decided to make a pretty fundamental life change as a family. Pete and I, along with our three children, set out on a plan to sail around the world—or at least give it a really good shot.

It didn’t happen overnight.

We sold our house. We said goodbye to the familiar. And we upgraded from our weekend sailing boat—a Catalina 36—to our new home: a Leopard 46 catamaran.

Then came the real work—turning a boat into a home. We set her up to be safe, comfortable, and capable of taking us off-grid for extended periods. Solar panels feed our lithium batteries, a water maker keeps us self-sufficient, and slowly but surely, LunaSea became somewhere we could truly live, not just visit.

One of the biggest questions we get is, “What about the kids’ schooling?” The answer is that we brought that with us too. We are now in our third year of online private schooling, and it’s been one of the best decisions we’ve made. The flexibility allows the kids to learn at their own pace while still having access to teachers and tutors when needed. As of 2026, Annabelle is in Grade 11 (Junior year) with Laurel Springs, Oscar has started middle school as a 6th grader, and Bethan is thriving in 3rd grade, both through Calvert Academy.

Meanwhile, Pete continues to run his consultancy remotely, with the occasional trip off the boat, and I run my fractional HR consultancy from wherever we happen to be anchored. Work, school, and life all happen here.

If we’re honest, this wasn’t the “sensible” option. But as our appetite for travel came back, so did a realisation: life is too short to wait for someday.

We didn’t want to wait for retirement to start ticking off a bucket list. We wanted to do it now—while the kids are still young enough to share it with us, to experience it fully, and to remember it.

So we went all in.

We began by sailing down the US East Coast to Florida, then crossed to the Bahamas, and spent the 2024 season working our way through the Caribbean.

And from there, we decided to go where the wind and weather windows took us - we spent 6 months in Colombia exploring that magical and frankly undiscovered country in the hurricane season in 2025, then headed to Panama and explored the beauty of the San Blas and then all that Panama had to give which was an unexpected surprise as a country. As of March 2026, we are on the edge of our next big passage from Panama to the Galápagos. A proper blue-water crossing. A little daunting, and a lot exciting.

This blog is our way of capturing it all—the highs, the chaos, the learning curves, and the moments that make us stop and think, “this is exactly why we did this.”

If you’d like to follow along, we’d love to have you with us.