Windtraveler

Welcome to Windtraveler!

We are Brittany, Scott, Isla (eye-la), Haven and Mira (meer-uh) - the estrogen-rich family that is behind Windtraveler.  

Scott and I set sail in September of 2010 to seek a life less ordinary.  We had a blast sailing down the East Coast to the Bahamas and to the Caribbean via the "thorny path".  We spent an extended hurricane season in Grenada, got pregnant and came home to have our little Isla in March of 2012.  We decided we needed a bigger boat to accomodate our growing family so we sold our old boat, got a new boat and our life at sea resumed in September of 2012.  Life was pretty hunky dory.

Then, we got the biggest surprise of our lives and discovered we were pregnant with twins.  Talk about a game changer!  We continued to cruise most of 2013 while I grew two baby girls in my belly, and in December of 2013, we moved back to land and in with my parents and awaited the birth our new crew.  

Our little fish, Haven and Mira were born (full term, yay!) March 6, 2014 and we continued to live stateside (on land) for the following ten months. The first eight months with the twins were hard. Really hard. And we were glad to be near family and extra hands. But when the twins were ten months old, we returned to our boat which was on the hard in Tortola to resume cruising around the British Virgin Islands for the next eight months. The goal was to see how we did with three little ones on the boat, and the BVI were an ideal testing ground. No long passages, no overnights, no need to really worry too much about weather...it was wise of us to be conservative and we found that the twins, and our family, thrived again on the water.

We decided to make long term plans in the BVI and, after assessing our finances and wanting to 'settle down' a bit and make some money while building something, we made our biggest change yet and bought a daysail charter company here on Tortola. This move was bold, risky, and kind of nuts - but that's how we roll. We now live aboard our boat at the Nanny Cay Marina and run Aristocat Charters, aka our fourth baby. The plan is to live here for the next five to seven years while we build our business, pay off the loan and make some money. It's ideal and the best of both worlds to us; we get all the benefits of the cruising lifestyle we enjoyed in one of the places we loved the most, but are filling our cruising kitty in earnest. What the future holds we don't know, but it's always an adventure - that's for sure!

You can see more of the particulars of our journey on our "Route" page and in the bowels of this blog, but that's the gist of it.  It's been a trip! 

If you are a) incredibly ambitious and b) have a lot of time on your hands - you can read our blog from the very beginning...if interested, you can do begin here, and just keep clicking "newer posts" until you get to the present day. If you do this, you deserve a medal for sure.

Note: Unlike most sailing blogs - Windtraveler is not the name of our boat. Our boat's name is"Asante" - but, because this blog started before we got our first boat, we thought Windtraveler pretty appropriate for what we wanted to do (travel by wind) so we stuck with it, confusing as it may be. 

If you are just joining, you might want to start at the beginning to catch up...Under the section"Archives" you will see a bunch of dates, go to the earliest and then work your way up! Before you start asking us questions - please be sure to hit up our FAQ Page, because we cover a lot of the basics right there.  You can also check out the post on why we're doing this.

Also - please read our DISCLAIMER before you take our word as gospel (hint: our word is not gospel).

We hope you enjoy our story and our adventures! Thanks for stopping by!