Here’s an ongoing rundown of all the places we love to visit Atlantic City, NJ We usually anchor out but run in to the Golden …
Taint Time
The time between visits to our favorite towns Swansboro, NC We splashed and hung out on the dock for a few days at Bock Marine …
Fall into hurricane season 2022
Fall has arrived, and with it some hurricane activity. Oriental We docked at Whittaker Pointe Marina in Oriental on September 26. If you are cruising, …
Summer Hours 2022
New York We got to Port Washington, NY on June 12, 2022. Port Washington is a cruiser’s dream! Water Taxi, 2(!!!!) dinghy docks, supermarket, laundry, …
Untying the lines…Finalmente!!
Finalmente! June 2021 So, we moved back on board at the end of January, right? Well, it is now June 1st and we are finally …
We’re on the road (water) again…
October 21, 2021 – Dec. 11th 2021 On the road again… October… We left Annapolis on October 21st. We made the 9:30 AM bridge opening, …
Stuff Speck Loves
Being a boat cat isn’t that much different than being a house cat, according to Speck. Speck rules Tocino in much the same way as …
Lessons Learned
If you were at the Deltaville (VA) Marina fuel dock on 6.2.22 you may have witnessed my extremely dramatic face-plant. Thank you to the owner …
Northbound and Down 2022
Spring 2022 (March 15, 2022 – June 12, 2022) We are finally back on board! David is sufficiently recovered for us to live aboard again. …
Have yourself a merry little heart attack…
And we thought our months here during the height of Covid were interesting… It’s been an even wilder ride this time around during our stay …
How We Spent Our Summer (2021)
by the Crew of SV Tocino We meandered north, hitting all our favorite stops. Georgetown, SC Osprey Marina (our storage unit is only 6 miles …
Hmmmph…Well. THAT’s not supposed to happen…
We are on our way! Motoring along the ICW, stopped in St. Augustine for a couple of days, put up the new Genoa for the …
Dolphin Happiness
Seeing dolphins during our travels NEVER. GETS. OLD. I am a goofball every single time! You can check out more of our videos on our …
Stuff We Love
It really is the little things that make a big difference while living aboard. This is a list of the things we use that are …
You are responsible for your wake…
January 30-31st, 2020. We are finally back on board. Thank the Goddess! It took a lot of trips and a lot of bins. And, of …
What Happened to the V-Berth?
On our previous episode… You may have noticed a couple of projects that were ‘stricken from the record’ on the Projects/Upgrades post. Here’s a story …
Projects and Upgrades List
We have had a lot of time to work on boat projects…a LOT of time. Of course, now that it’s down to the wire it …
A Month of Ladder Climbing
Trying to get everything we brought with us stored somewhere logical, safe, and efficient was an intense, high-level Tetris game. Eventually, we gave in and …
Let There be Bacon!
We bought Tocino (formerly Destiny), located in Beaufort, NC, in late September 2019. We had spent the late spring and summer 2019 looking at houses, …