We buy a SAILBOAT and leave the NEXT DAY on a 600 mile voyage!!
Sailboat living with SailAway Ep. 1 Travel Vlog - Join us aboard SV Layla as we learn about living on a sailboat. We travel from our home in Charleston SC to Atlantic City, New Jersey to pick up our new-to-us '95 Hunter Legend 35.5 sailboat. Along for our first sailing adventure on our new sailboat was our 6th month old baby and father/father-in-law to add to the fun. There is always a learning curve to even short-term liveaboard sailing, so make sure to check out our sweet moves getting out of the dock. Be sure to SUBSCRIBE for WEEKLY CONTENT! Cheers!!

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Our journey begins at our home in Charleston, South Carolina as we head to Atlantic City, New Jersey to pick up our new boat
Okay, so today is the big day
Driving up to New Jersey to get the boat
Baby's really excited
However we have to get
All of that
All of that...dogs staying here... and all of that...into there
Okay, so
Loren's dad gets this area right here for his duffel bags
I think we could have fit a lot more
Now we'll see if we can fit my father in
Arrived
Baby's trying to nap
All right
We're about
to drill some holes
into the boat
For this one who will not calm down
always drill a smaller hole first
Instead of starting with larger hole because you can always make a hole larger, but you can never make a hole smaller
Don't be scared so scared too late now
Hopefully, it's strong enough to hold a baby. I mean he's only gonna fall this far
If I can't pull it down with my four fingers all right you excited
This
Is your brand-new?
Yeah, a brand-new baby hammock swing stop laughing at me hung up the top there clips on and off real easy like
That
So now all we got to do is see baby will actually sleep in it. Sorry I just did a boob shot...didn't mean to
Hey, that's what I'm talking about right there
So we were gonna go to a little like marina bar
it was closed and the only place we saw around here to eat our first dinner before we take off tomorrow morning on our sail
This boat is still kind of crazy
And we're still getting it all sorted out, so we're eating egg sandwiches for supper
along with
nachos and salsa and
Hummus and carrots so pretty balanced really
We did all the shopping Loren did all the shopping today all the groceries that kinda stuff
Chris and I put in the new MFD
Stereo...and a bunch of stuff, the baby swing
I think we're ready to go
So
We woke up. That's a big good start for the day
This guy
Slept like, well like a baby show you all it's like outside because it's pretty
Okay, so the current is at our Stern right now
and it's always best to power into the current leaving the dock if you can so I'm
Reversing and planning to cut across the creek and put it forward and hang a left and point straight out
So right about here, I realized the wind is pushing us harder than I thought and I should have gone farther across the creek
So now if I put it in forward and try to power up and head out
I don't know if I'm gonna get steerage before the wind slides us into the dock
So now I put it reverse to help pull us away from the dock along with the current and from this point on in a
Very kind of narrow and shallow Creek
We're just looking for a spot where we can go with forwards long enough to get steerage and turn around and get out of there
So there you have it
This is how the professionals do it
Pointing the right way
Donuts
Again probably didn't look that great from the dock, but if you don't know exactly what the boats gonna
Do you should never force a plan
So it's always better to spin around in a bunch of goofy circles than it is to wreck your boat
Now don't run over any crab pots. I just want to throw few extra turns in gets feel of it. You know
We have hot coffee I got the navigation screen come on
Our depth meter is showing a depth
not 100% sure if it's the real depth..but it's showing a depth
We don't have too much to complain about
Next time on Sailing SV Layla