Over the past ten years, we’ve owned four, lived on two and sold three boats – each perfect for their purpose at the time. With the kids hitting the teenage years and after ten years raising the kids at sea, 2024 saw us moving to a permaculture paradise and retreat centre near Medellin, Colombia. We are therefore considering letting go of our last floating home to the right, new owerns.

We bought this Moody 44 in mid 2021 in Panama. SY Da Capo was our floating home, taking us around the Carribbean from Panama to Colombia, from the Cayman Islands to a refit in 2023 in Guatemala, from Belize and Mexico to Cuba and beyond. She is a cozy centre cockpit with a four (!) cabin layout and all the add-ons and gadgets a bluewater cruiser could dream off. In addition to her perfect mix of comfort and safety, we’ve always valued the expertise and comradery of the Moody community which always has you feeling that someone has got your back.

A bit of Herstory

Having grown up and worked on and around boats, we started the ‘cruising lifestyle’ in our mid-twenties with a share in a Bavaria 37 on Sydney Harbour. Then in 2013, when this blog was created shortly after the birth of our second son, we sold the share together with everything else that didn’t fit into three backpacks, and flew to Europe to buy Happy Dancer, our Moody 425 in Kilada, Greece.

Whilst on land-break back in Australia, the above green (since 2020 white) Mottle 33′ was our much loved weekend home. Once in love with the sea, it is close to impossible to live without her.