I grew up in the valley of California in a small farm town and by my mid twenties I was ready for a change. I moved to my father’s home town in Los Angeles to raise my daughter and enjoy a change of scenery. Following a short modeling career I found a love for being behind the camera and opened portrait studio in California. Within five years, I got the itch to see something new again and moved to Austin Texas in 2013, where I met a man that introduced me to the idea of living on a boat.

In the Summer of 2015 I packed up the kids and moved onto a small power boat, that was set to leave from Kemah, Texas bound for Florida and then ultimately to the Bahamas to search for treasure.  Yes, that was the plan we were going to go treasure hunting. Rob was a huge history buff and loved researching history of the Spanish Galleons. This sounded like the adventure of a lifetime. We became scuba certified and started studying weather patterns. We sold almost everything we owned and packed into a tiny 2003 Cruisers Yacht and set out to sea with zero experience. We were on a hope, a dream and a prayer.

After a year of living on the 33 foot cruisers yacht. As we made our way form port to port, I fell in love with a tall ship. It didn’t take long before I got the itch to learn how to sail. The idea that one could travel around the world by the wind, without having to buy fuel was and interesting proposition. 

In the spring of 2016 nearly a year after moving aboard, we bought our first sailboat Miss Lone Star. She was a 1994, 405 Beneteau purchased from a maritime institute in the North East of the United States for $70,000 USD. In the end my relationship didn’t work out. You can hear the whole story here. However, it was so important to me to not give up on this dream to sail around the world, even if it meant I would have to do it without a partner.

So I set out to become the best sailor I could be and became a USCG captain. Since then I have owned several sailboats and have been buying, fixing and selling them to fund our adventures. I have learned so much and have had the pleasure of take so many with me along the way, on YouTube.

In 2020 my Pirate Ship dreams came true and I purchased a 1977 Formosa 51. My plan is to sail her around the world. After completing a massive refit that included all new spars and rigging, I set sail in 2022 from the Puget Sound, Washington to Mexico and beyond (nailed it).