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12 More fun things we love on board: The Sailor's stocking stuffer edition!
Still looking for LAST MINUTE Holiday GIFTS? Here is the companion list to our “12 Things we don’t want to live without” blog! Stocking Stuffers! We are down to the wire on the...
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Gift Ideas for the Sailors in your life: 12 Things We Love!
Santa is coming in hot. Just weeks away! Need some last minute gift ideas for the sailor in your life? Especially a live-aboard sailor?  Honestly, a lot of these could be useful...
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Sailing Across the Atlantic: By the Numbers
There was a lot of interest in our “By the Numbers” Facebook/ Instagram post. Being that it was a social media post, I wasn’t able to expand much on the information...
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Atlantic Crossing (Part 2): Daily Musings from the Crew
We had a lot of requests for our tracker musings as we crossed the Atlantic. Here they are in full! Grab a tasty cold rum cocktail and sit back and read the antics of four crazy sailors...
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The Atlantic Crossing (Part 1):  Spoiler Alert - We Didn’t Make It All The Way!
On December 2nd, we woke up with a boat full of fuel, food and excitement. It was launch day for our crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, where we would leave land behind for almost 3 weeks...
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Tenerife, Canary Islands: One Last Stop Before The Big Jump.
A 5 am start out of Gran Canaria meant pulling up anchor in the dark and motoring out to light winds as the sun rose over the Islands. We were headed about 53 miles to Tenerife, our...
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ABOUT US

Welcome to WaterWings Sailing! We are Kevin and Erin, two retired US Naval Flight Officers who traded in our horizontal wings for vertical ones. We sold everything we owned, which encompassed 2 houses, 2 cars, and a lifetime of memories to try to live the dream of sailing the world. 

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“There are good ships and wood shipsships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships, may they always be! 

-Irish Proverb