A friend recently commented that the world I live in is a magical world. Very true. I love my life and the places we visit. I find enormous pleasure in watching the world. If a moment translates into a photo, even better, because then I …
In 2020 regulations dictate in Washington State and California that the hull paint on pleasure vessels should be of the non-copper kind and/or have a very slow leaching rate. Thousand of pleasure boats are mostly sitting at the docks and are continually leaching copper into …
If there is one fruit I love, it is mango. This south-east asian fruit is cultivated all over the tropics. The mango is an expat like me and having lunch shaded by a mango tree is my kind of paradise. Loreto was founded by Spanish missionaries …
We want to imagine what the future will be like and we want to help shape it.
How will we live in 20 years?
Will we have found ways to sustain our thirst for energy, water and space? What will we reduce, drop or keep?
We have always worked satisfying jobs, sometimes we compromised but always found a moral silver lining to live by. When we started feeling too comfortable, we’ve changed things up.
In 2014, we decided to scale way back and live on a boat. We wanted to experience sustainable living first hand and not only talk about it.
Talking about changing things up! Even for us adventurous souls, this has been a challenge. It has allowed us to experience life, nature and ourselves in a new way. On water and now on land.
Come join us on our adventure!
Below some snapshots of life on SV Imagine
the car
3 mounted PVs on bimini …
… and dodger give 280W plus a mobile unit
solar panels in Bahía Aqua Verde and in all other remote (off-grid) fishing villages
easy diesel run at the dock. consumption 0.7g/h
not so easy: jerry cans into the dinghy, into a car, drive to gas station, back with the car to the dinghy and onto the boat
provisions drying
provision hammocks
composting toilet in a fishing village with sawdust and…
… in our composting head with coconut coir as composting agent