by Rachel | Oct 27, 2018 | Mosaic Kids
What have we been learning about? Spanish Writing letters Vaccines Math Writing Drawing US History on crash course Coding on Tynker So far, boatschooling has been fun. I like doing Tynker and I also liked watching videos about vaccines. A few days ago, we went...
by Rachel | Oct 25, 2018 | Mosaic Voyage Blog
A note from Mosaic: A couple weeks ago, I found myself chatting online with Marcella Wright who’s currently living in a caravan with her family in New Zealand. She is interested in eventually taking her family sailing/cruising and we struck on the idea of...
by Rachel | Oct 15, 2018 | Mosaic Voyage Blog
Today is our official two year anniversary of living aboard our sailboat, Mosaic!!! I’m going to take a few moments and just be proud of how far we’ve come. As individuals. As a couple. As a family. And as sailors. I know that sometimes I feel a little...
by Rachel | Oct 8, 2018 | Budget
Here’s our September 2018 budget/expense report for all boat related items. I’m hoping to actually keep track really closely this month and have an even more in-depth report for October. My goal in being so transparent with our expenses is to help out...
by Rachel | Sep 27, 2018 | Mosaic Voyage Blog
Yep, we finally got the kids out sailing!! I think Evan may have gotten to sail with us once, a couple years ago, when we had our Catalina 25. But this past weekend, after much prep work each evening after work during the week before, we were finally able to take...
by Rachel | Sep 25, 2018 | Budget
OK – here’s the August budget and expense report, as promised. For those that don’t know, we’re a family of four living aboard our 1978 Fuji 40 sailboat SV Mosaic in Portland Oregon. We’ve been living aboard for almost 2 years, stationary...
by Rachel | Sep 20, 2018 | Mosaic Voyage Blog
Since making the decision not to leave Portland and head up to the Puget Sound this year, we have been making good on our promise to ourselves to start really using the boat and having some fun! Vacations are for Sailing! Brenden had two weeks of vacation left for the...
by Rachel | Aug 31, 2018 | Budget
I’m late in getting this up but, in doing so, I’m developing the process by which I would like to manage our budget reports each month. So, bear with me. I’m sure this will be an evolving process. If you missed out on my previous Expense Report,...
by Rachel | Aug 7, 2018 | Mosaic Voyage Blog
We’ve finally come to a conclusion on the big decision that’s been looming over our heads for the past few weeks: Should we move our boat and our family north to the Puget Sound rather than staying in the Portland area for another winter? We WANT to be in...
by Rachel | Jul 29, 2018 | Mosaic Voyage Blog
Hey guys. So, yeah, apparently my vow to write a blog post every week went out the window this month. We’ve just been SO busy lately with boat projects and planning a potential move to the Puget Sound, on top of our normal jobs, that I haven’t taken the time to sit...
