Celebrating 11 Years Living Aboard Full Time | Living aboard a trawler | Living aboard a sailboat

11 years ago, Randy and I made a decision that would greatly change and impact our lives for the better. We purchased a 1974 Defever Passagemaker trawler and quickly learned that life would never be the same. A wonderful world opened up for us as we lived aboard our boat full time and cruised all over Southwest Florida, the Keys and Dry Tortugas. We lived aboard our trawler, Blue Turtle, for 9.5 years while working full time and raising our son. I even ran my graphic/web design business from the boat for the majority of the time I had it. We embraced living minimally, selling most of our stuff and moving everything we owned onto the boat. We never even had a storage unit. It turns out that living below our means all those years has paid off and allowed us both to retire early and cruise full time. In 2021, we sold our trawler and purchased a 1978 CSY Walkover sailboat, which we also named Blue Turtle. In April 2022, we began cruising full-time along the eastern coast of the U.S. with plans to (hopefully) make it to the Bahamas this winter. Cruising full time without a home port definitely has its own set of challenges and I can't say that living aboard has been all sunsets, rainbows and cocktails, but we couldn't think of life any other way. The experiences we've had and the amazing friends we've met along our journey is what makes this lifestyle so incredibly amazing. Hope you enjoy the photos as we take a walk down memory lane looking at the evolution of our live aboard life. Cheers! BLOG: https://blueturtlecruising.com/celebrating-11-years-living-aboard-full-time FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/blueturtlecruising INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/blueturtlecruising NOFOREIGNLAND: https://www.noforeignland.com/boat/blueturtle . #livingaboard #liveaboard #minimalism #tinyhomeliving #oceanlife #onthewater #cruising #cruisinglife #uppbeat #liveaboardlife #liveaboardsailboat #liveaboardtrawler #trawler #sailboat #defever #caribbeansailingyacht #travelblogger #travel #sailboatcruising Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/soundroll/tropicana License code: MYIO5UCPD4SF0CL8 Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/hartzmann/bamboo License code: EOXGYFAA5B4SSP3T