We decided to embark on a pretty fundamental life change as we as a family (my husband Pete and I, along with our 3 children) are planning on sailing around the world - or having a damn good try at doing it :)  

We sold our house, upgraded our old sailing boat (a Catalina 36 that we mainly used for weekends) to a Leopard 46 Catamaran, and worked to make it a comfortable and safe home, as well as having the ability for us to be totally off grid for extensive periods of time with solar panels to feed our Lithium batteries, and a water maker. 

The children started their school journey on the boat with their online private schools - Annabelle as a Sophomore in high school (Grade 10) through Laurel Springs, Oscar is now in fifth grade and Bethan is in second grade through Calvert Academy! We are now in our second year of the online school and loving it’s flexibility (they are self-paced, asynchronous schools with live teacher and tutor support when needed). Pete runs his own business remotely with occasional travel and I run an HR Fractional Consultancy.

We made fairly bold decision as our appetite to travel started coming back and we realized that life is too short to wait to retire and fulfill a bucket list, so we went big and are doing it now, with the huge benefit that we can take our home with us, and share the experiences with our kids before they get too old.

We set sail down the East Coast to Florida and then onto the Bahamas and down through the Caribbean in the 2024 season. After that our plan will be literally where the wind takes us - either through the Panama canal and across the Pacific, or across the Atlantic and into the Mediterranean Sea.

As of April 2025 we are in Colombia! Subscribe to our blog to follow our journey!