This week, the work on Blue began in earnest. Tuesday was sunny and clear, the perfect day for Mini-Project Number One – installing the roof fan. This required cutting a large, 14” x 14”, hole in the roof of our beautiful van. I thought that if I screwed it up, I could make the hole into a skylight; or if I screwed it up really badly, I could always make Blue into a convertible. It's good to have contingency plans.
Read MoreThe most common starting point for a van conversion is the floor - installing insulation, adding an underlayment, then the flooring - before moving on to insulate the sides and roof. For several reasons, I've decided to start with the roof instead ...
Read MoreWe found early on when we were planning to buy a sailboat and sail off into the sunset that the best approach was to put things down on paper, develop a timeframe and work at keeping ourselves on track.
Read MoreHi there and welcome to Just A Little Further!
We are David and Marcie Lynn and we've lived aboard our Liberty 458 cutter-rigged sailboat since 2000.
What began as an urge to travel slowly and economically at our own pace ended up an adventure of a lifetime.
Well, here we are ... nearly 90,000 miles under the keel, 5 continents, 5 Great Southern Capes, 36 countries and almost two decades later, still taking one passage at a time and going just a little further.
