Stelluca

Boots and Bags

Our friends at Stelluca, Melissa and Olli, have been making and supplying awesome upcycled bags and gear for ages.  These quality handmade items are great for the beach, sailing trips, iPads, wallets, you name it, they've built it.

They recently picked up the Zhik line of sailing gear designed in Australia.  We've read great things about the seaboots so we decided to buy two pair for Zetty and I.  I've found them to be very comfortable and warm, they seem to have a great grip, we'll see once we get aboard.

If you get a chance, please visit their website and check out the great gear!!  They also have a trailer that takes most of your sailing equipment and gear to the major regattas in the Midwest during the summer in case you forget something, break something or just want to upgrade the old duds!

Lou

Test Packing

The Test Pack - Part 1

I did the first test pack of the "hard" suitcases this morning.  I did manage to get all of the needed things into the first case.

Suitcase Number 1

In order to save a lot of space, I put most of the small things into ziploc bags.  You may ask why would we/I bring all this small stuff, easy because we can.  We get a total of 10 checked bags weighing 50lbs each which is a 1/4 ton of clothes and parts!  It should cut down on trying to find the hard stuff like laptop battery, Iridium battery, medical equipment, sail repair kit all of which were pinched off our old boat, Monkey's Orphan.  41 more days until we leave...