What started as a conversation turned into a decision, and then into something a lot bigger than either of us expected.

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

It took a while to get there. We sold the huge house we had in the US, said goodbye to anything familiar, and traded our weekend sailing boat, a Catalina 36, for our new home: a Leopard 46 catamaran.

Then came the actual work of turning a boat into a home. We set her up to be safe, comfortable, and capable of taking us off-grid for long stretches at a time. Solar panels feed our lithium batteries, a water maker keeps us self-sufficient, and bit by bit, LunaSea became somewhere we actually live, not just somewhere we visit.

One of the questions we get most is what we're doing about the kids' schooling. The short answer is we brought it with us. We're now in our third year of online private schooling, and honestly it's worked out better than we expected. The flexibility means the kids can learn at their own pace but still have teachers and tutors when they need them. As of 2026, Annabelle is now a Senior in Grade 12 with Laurel Springs, Oscar is in the middle of middle school as a 7th grader, and Bethan is in 4rd grade, both through Calvert Academy.

Meanwhile, Pete still runs his consultancy remotely, with the odd trip off the boat for clients, and I run my fractional HR consultancy from wherever we're anchored that week. Work, school, and everyday life all just happen here now.

If we're honest, this wasn't the sensible option. But once our appetite for travel came back, we realized we didn't want to wait for someday. We didn't want to save this for retirement, ticking things off a bucket list decades from now. We wanted to do it while the kids were still young enough to actually experience it with us, and remember it.

So that's what we did.

We started 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. From there we let the wind and the weather windows decide where we went next: six months in Colombia through the 2025 hurricane season, exploring a country that's honestly still pretty undiscovered by most cruisers, then on to Panama, where the San Blas islands (and pretty much everything else about the country) were more beautiful than we expected. As of September 2026, we're sitting in the middle of the Pacific Ocean between French Polynesia and Tonga, having had another epic year. We’ve done a proper blue-water crossing of 20 days and many more short ones. Daunting, and exciting in about equal measure.

This blog is our way of keeping track of 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.