Sailing Knotty Nature

How to get mail in Greece on a sailing catamaran boat off grid? We still don’t know! We really need those safety hatch handles to finish this DIY project. Fresh homemade gluten free pasta in our tiny home to make it feel cozy. Christmas socks have the magic to keep him warm in this cold weather. Unboxing our packages! Sea urchin spikes still stuck in her foot. Let’s take the bandage off and see how it’s doing. This is not how to do first aid. She is a mortician not a doctor. Figuring out our MMSI number situation. Boats get filthy while dry docked. How we plan to deal with the moisture issue in our bedroom with condensation under our mattress. A cheaper, more affordable alternative. Worked out better than we thought.

Apparently these live aboard sailors need to do work on the 6 horse power outboard to get it up to racing standard. New perks with the new engine for the dinghy. It is our car and the sailing catamaran is our tiny home. Private romantic ghandola ride from the best singer in the canal. Greek coastline beach day walk in nature to a sea turtle and lighthouse. Paying the marina fees and dealing with credit card and phone number issues. Getting off grid is proving to be more difficult than we originally thought. How do you go off grid? Strong gusts of wind force us inside the boat. The tiny garden is well with fresh veggies and herbs. Home garage organization project DIY. How do you organize? Birthday presents! The perfect gift for him.

Our tiny home catamaran needs more work. Fixing damage on the mast and getting the batton cars in working order is a must for sailing. A few bad bearings are found and dealt with. Lemon cake for breakfast? Of course, because it is before second breakfast. Margarita mix recipe from tangerines and a few oranges and lemons. One step closer to going off grid. Happy cows come and crash our almost sunny vacation beach day. Nature photography at its finest. Walks on the beach before the heavy rains come. Bugs invade the Greek coastline. Always pack snacks! Love is snacks. The outboard gets some DIY work and elbow grease. SEA URCHINS ATTACK!!! And it hurts. Emergency foot surgery. Cuddle movie time when the winter wind begins to blow. The live aboard sailors have a date picked out!

This year in our tiny home Brian turns up the romance and knows how to make a Valentine’s Day memorable with some gluten free crepes. The secret… love equals butter. With the language barrier we don’t know what kind meat we are eating in this boat life world. We may not get solar panels in time!! What will we do? Getting laundry done on a boat for an affordable price needs some DIY work. He is getting the hang of electrical work as it is almost a finished project. Flipping the switch on some new equipment is a good sign of progress. Brian keeps getting head wounds. A mortician does not make the best nurse. Paul from YouTube Sailing Spock gives us a ride to town to do some grocery shopping and look for plywood. The hunt for some cooking equipment continues. Oven thermometers do not exist in Greece. Some electrical supplies from the hardware store are by found these live aboard sailors.

The weather reports keep promising warm summer Greek vacation weather but it never comes. With no power in the marina for our tiny home we have just cuddles and coffee to warm our spirits. Making wires according to the wiring diagram for the new battery system is on the top of the to do list of DIYs. We have embraced the Mediterranean diet and it is not what you think it is. Later we help Paul from the YouTube channel Sailing Sock get his dinghy in the water. Things get green and more off grid as the tiny garden is started from kitchen scraps. Filling up on water is another chore we never had before live aboard boat life. Every day brings us one step closer to getting into that water for some sailing.

We aren't sailing just, thank goodness. What we are doing is fixing a mistake we made when we first got to Greece. I'm sure you guessed it, we are also still dealing with the extreme cold days. So, we do take advantage of the sunny days when they show up.

Even tho it's still cold in Greece, we are getting some of the DIY sailboat projects finished. Getting the Seawater Pro water maker installed was a task, but we made it look good. The Victron system gets mounted. Katie figures out how to start an indoor garden on the Knotty.

Who knew Greece in Winter would have such bone chilling cold? Not us! We still get to DIY projects, as we freeze in this abnormally cold year. We also find a decent day to explore one of the local beaches before the next cold settles in.

Let the DYI, Boat DIY projects begin! Time to start getting our tiny home in shape to actually be full time live aboard sailboat. Making food becomes repetitive, but it's still amazing with the fresh local vegetables as we make do without a car. We unveil that we are starting an Online Store on Society6.com, with artwork that we have for Sailing Knotty Nature as well as art that is just for fun. Make sure to have a look! Society6.com/sailingknottynature.

We finally leave Surf City/Huntington Beach to fly to Athens, Greece. We travel across the Country to finally arrive at Cleopatra Marina in Preveza, Greece. It only took 24 hours of travel to get to Knotty Nature. What shape will the boat be in? How hard will it be to figure life out in a completely different country?

Selling a business,Quiting Jobs, Packing Up and Moving to Greece. The last few weeks in Huntington Beach, California we celebrate Christmas with family and friends, and never forgetting to share the love we have for each other.

Back in Huntington Beach, California. We brought back our Bimini from our live aboard yacht in Greece, and will do our best to DIY it with some new materials from Sailrite, and a Sailrite Sewing machine we bought off other live aboard sailers we recently met.

Reaching Cleopatra Marina in Preveza, Greece, we get our live aboard boat hauled out of water and put on dry land. With only a few days left, we get her sails put away, have some laughs and head back to Huntington Beach.

Setting sail from Corfu, Greece with a final destination of Preveza, Greece. This Lipari 41 by Fountaine Pajot is just the perfect fit for our new boat life ahead. We make an an over night stop in a random anchorage, and then head off the beautiful Parga, Greece. We have a wonderful experience as we sail the next three days.

Months of research leads us to Corfu, Greece. We fly out of Huntington Beach, California to finalize the buy and finally start our live aboard life. Corfu was a fantastic place to experience. The beautiful warm weather, the scenery, the food, and the people were all fantastic. We definitely recommend a visit to this little island retreat. Not knowing we were going to have some fun with creating a Rumble Channel, we started putting together some videos and photos to show our fun.