sailing casita

On our first day in the Bay Area we moved the boat from the Aquatic Park to a transient slip at Marina Village in Alameda. We weren’t planning to live aboard long term but planned to stay on the boat while we had fun exploring the area and spending time with my sisters. We figured ‘Imi Loa was big enough to cruise on but probably too small to liveaboard while trying to live a normal life with regular jobs, etc.

After a few weeks we took Amtrak back up to Oregon to retrieve our vehicles and our stuff from storage, then we started looking for apartments. Well we should have started the apartment search first because it quickly became clear that our cozy little boat was nicer than most of the available/affordable apartments (the competition for apartments we pretty fierce too, it seemed that a bribe was required to get the better places). We were still enjoying living aboard and the liveaboard fee was so much less than rent that we decided not to get an apartment. So most of the stuff we hauled down from Oregon went to the Salvation Army.

Of course deciding to live aboard full time meant more projects but I will save that for another post.