About Us

Four People, One Boat, No Manual.

We're learning to sail, live aboard, and raise a family at sea, one mistake at a time. This is everything it's taught us so far.

We're Reiss and Anouk, and our two boys. Four years ago we swapped a normal life on land for a 56-foot Dufour called Bolongo, with no real sailing experience between us, and started learning to sail the way most people actually do: slowly, imperfectly, and mostly by getting it wrong first.

We taught ourselves through hours of research, forums, YouTube channels, actual sailors who knew better than we did, and simply living it day to day. The boys have grown up on it, homeschooling between anchorages, making friends in marinas from France to Greece, treating boat work like it's just part of the day, because for them, it is.

This site is where we put down everything that's actually taught us: how to get into boating in the first place, the boat systems that keep Bolongo running, what family life at sea really looks like, and the Mediterranean routes we've sailed. Not polished advice, just what we've learned by doing it.

Figure it out with us.