On the bright side
Author: Samuel Liles
Sailing from Quarantine Part 2: Your boat has the flu
Sitting in a marina is not the “fun” you might get from videos and stories others tell. It’s usually hot, stinky, and filled with people. Even during a pandemic. As we sat in the marina at Cape Canaveral we started…
Sailing from Quarantine 2020 Part 1: Let’s go north
You know 2020 was an amazing awesome year. We can look back to April on a particular day and it wasn’t such a bad day. I was sitting at work looking from my office out into the blue sky of…
Sunset Sail
Return to the office with an active pandemic
COVID-19 has saturated your reading. You aren’t sure you want to read any kind of story about it anymore. Everything has been written about it you could ever hope to read. Who is this guy writing and what is his…
What does COVID-19 Recovery maybe look like?
COVID-19 will likely change our world view as citizens, consumers, and leaders. There are a variety of things we need to be concerned with as we move through steady state response into a recovery kind of situation. The following are…
Not you normal wash your hands COVID-19 Discussion
In the sailboat and other message boards a vast number of “prepper” types posted all kinds of stuff about leaving on their boats. They talked about how they would take to the high seas. How they were prepared for anything.…
Navigation and Electronics Refit
We did a comprehensive update on the entire electronics package on EOTI. Like anything you do on a boat the project was significant because it was touching so many different parts of the boat. You can see in pictures the…
2019 Marine Corps Birthday and Veterans Day
November 10th is the Marine Corps Birthday. The best day of the year. November 11th is Veterans Day. As a junior in High School I joined the US Army National Guard. Having lived on a small boat with my parents in the…
EOTI Refit: Cushions, Bimini, and Pedestal Cover
Getting the interior and exterior cushions done on EOTI was an interesting process. Creative Canvas here in Fort Lauderdale was asked if they could do the work. I got their contact information from Just Catamarans. We had an interesting meeting…
Son and Moon
Growing up on a boat
YouTube sailing channels are fun to watch. Usually young, beautiful, healthy, people travel to exotic locations and spend extensive alone time. Gorgeous sunsets, amazing sunrises, tropical breezes, and romantic locations all while wearing the least amount of clothes possible. Because…
Inflection point: Opportunities go whoosh
The last 60 or so days have been kind of crazy. It has me thinking about a lot of different things. I’m not going to apologize for my poor grammar or even spelling it is one of those in my…
Wild Techdom
Hi, I’m Mitchel and this is my assistant Ron. Welcome to Wild Techdom supported by Mutual of Bromaha. Today we travel to the far off wilds of the cube mazes of Silicon Valley. These are dangerous lands with an entire…
Beware the professional path. There be dragons here
So, there I was talking to some people and I talked about focus of my career not being the same as longevity in my job. You see, long before the gig economy I started moving between jobs and looking for…