by Rachel | Aug 14, 2021 | Mosaic Voyage Blog
Blog posts will be forthcoming, but I wanted to send out a quick post for those that want to follow our adventures in real-time. If you follow us on social media, you know that we’re currently staged in Neah Bay, WA (anchored only, the community is closed to...
by Rachel | Jul 4, 2021 | Mosaic Voyage Blog
We’ve lived aboard for nearly five full years. In all that time, the only time we’ve had any visitors stay aboard overnight was during our passage north from the Columbia River back in 2019. That streak came to a solid end in the past month, with overnight...
by Rachel | May 27, 2021 | Cruiser's Review, Mosaic Voyage Blog
In my last post, I shared our journey getting out of winter moorage in Olympia, WA and the slow boat trip getting Mosaic, our 1978 Fuji 40 sailboat (and our home) moved all the way north and to our favored cruising grounds in the San Juan Islands. We left Olympia on...
by Rachel | May 13, 2021 | Mosaic Voyage Blog
We reached Sucia Island last night and took a mooring ball in Snoring Cove. We’re the only boat in here and it is stunningly gorgeous. I was inspired to rise with the sun this morning and spend a half-hour outside soaking up the peaceful views, which got me to...
by Rachel | Apr 3, 2021 | Mosaic Voyage Blog
For the past six months or so, I’ve been writing a monthly column for Vancouver Family Magazine all about our life’s adventures. (Check out the most recent article from April 1st!) It’s been really fun looking back at everything that it took to get...
by Rachel | Feb 13, 2021 | Cruiser's Review, Mosaic Voyage Blog
I like to write up these “Cruiser’s Reviews” when we visit fun and interesting places to A) help other people find fun and interesting places to visit by boat, and B) to help me remember our adventures! Haha. Enjoy this Watmough Bay Cruiser’s...
by Rachel | Feb 7, 2021 | Boat Projects & Improvements
While we’ve had the boat in Olympia these past couple months, we’ve been working with one of my brothers on designing a new custom stainless steel stern arch for Mosaic. He’s a pipe fitter and welder professionally and has a bunch of stainless tubing...
by Rachel | Nov 22, 2020 | Mosaic Voyage Blog
Disclaimer: We are NOT professionals. We do not claim to have the best technique for docking or for doing anything else aboard a boat but we did learn this technique from a professional captain with decades of experience sailing and cruising. We’ve been living...
by Rachel | Oct 15, 2020 | Mosaic Voyage Blog
Yesterday was, wholly, the worst day we’ve ever spent aboard our sailboat, Mosaic. We’ve been living aboard for over 4 years now and cruising the waters of the Puget Sound since May of 2019. We’ve been through four Pacific Northwest winters in our...
by Rachel | Oct 4, 2020 | Mosaic Voyage Blog
We spent much of September buddy boating around the San Juans with our friends aboard SV Muse. We coordinated 2 weeks of vacation time and planned lots of fun. It started out with a weekend boat sitting their boat in the anchorage outside Anacortes as they had a...
