Salty Kisses

family sailing adventure blog with vlog

coming along

by Filed Under: Galley/Cooking, Kids, Refit

Slowly she’s coming along. The interior trim has been scuffed up and ready to varnish. The stove is in and doesn’t look so “easy bake oven” anymore. The new sink for the master and counter around the galley sink have also been installed and they are AWSOME!

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Best of all the girls LOVE their rooms and can’t wait to move on. Pri said she didn’t even need a mattress, just a blanket. For some reason little wags was more excited over the head then anything.

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refit 8.21.13 from Carly on Vimeo.

master 8.20.13 from Carly on Vimeo.

Sorry about the sideways videos, I haven’t put our video editing software on the laptop yet – and who knows where it is in this mess of a house, we move out tomorrow. Just crook your head and enjoy 🙂
 
Also got a few bubba things in the mail via amazon, love you amazon! This is the bumper bed that will be in the upper sea berth in the salon, it’s going to work perfectly to stop a bubba from squirming around. Not to worry we are also going to make a lee cloth so he/she will be 100% contained.

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o-oh

by Filed Under: Kids

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That’s right we are baking a blob, a completely unplanned MEGA surprise of a blob. I’m still in my first trimester so it’s safe to say that I’m still in the freak out zone.

We’ve sold our business and our house so there’s no turning back now. Who says a pregnant mum of two can’t sail around and go on adventures??? Well actually I hear it’s quite miserable with a lot of hurling over the side. Yikes. We’re still debating on whether to have the baby in the Bahamas or in the BVI’s, we have friends in the BVI’s which would be nice to see and have a nice break there but I just don’t know if my stomach is going to be able to make it all the way down there. Nassau has a public and private hospital and a birthing center – none of which have emailed me back but hey it’s the Bahamas.

As I’m sure you’re aware we have changed the layout of our Skye 51 to accommodate mum, dad and two kids.  NOT THREE! So the wee one will have to sleep in the sea berth in the salon, I’m going to make a breathable lee cloth that will enclose the berth and make a cozy crib.

We never imagined that we would ever have 3 kids on land let alone on a boat, I just hope it’s not as hard as people say. We estimate that the coming 2 years are going to be rough but we’ll get through it.

Big C is oober happy that mummy has a baby in her belly, with conditions.

Mummy: “We need to think of some good names for the baby”

Big C: “I know, Cinderella, it’s a great name”

Mummy: “But what if it’s a boy”

Big C: “Do you hear that mummy?”

Mummy: “What”

Big C: “You’re making baby Cinderella cry because she’s NOT a boy, she’s a girl!!”

How does a 3 year old come up with this crap and if the baby’s a boy is she going to toss him overboard?

 

Carly

life jackets

by Filed Under: Kids, safety

I hate life jackets, my kids hate life jackets. What’s worse than lifejackets? Sunscreen, but that’s another post. Today we got via mail our new life jackets for the girls. I searched high and low and tried on all that West Marine had to offer but nothing I liked. I was taking a bit of a risk ordering the new jackets online but they got great reviews.

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I went with the Salus Nimbus from Binnacle. The life jackets are made in Canada by Salus Marine, I thought I had brought them from an American dealer but they we actually shipped from Canada – free shipping and all! GREAT! The fabric is really soft and the zipper doesn’t go all the way up to the neck so it won’t chafe the chin when sitting. The back is stretchy and looks like it would be cool on hot days. Little C is pretty indifferent about them but big C refuses to take her off. We have a winner folks! And did I mention the color PINK, what girl doesn’t want to wear pink.

 

Carly

fine fine floors

by Filed Under: Refit

We weren’t very kind to our floors when refitting the “mega yacht” and I thought they would never come good, but check them out!

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I really like that they have that nice worn personality.

The rest of the boat is coming along, shelves are being built, bilge painted, emergency bilge pump installed, painters working in the cockpit area. Less then a month before we have to leave our home. We may have to look for somewhere else to live for a month because I don’t think we’ll be able to get her finished. We need to install tanks and get her hauled out before we can move on so I don’t think that can all come about in a few weeks…. but I have seen crazier things happen!

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With the painters in the cockpit, we have to enter via a hatch in the master.

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Carly