Ahoy! We are Connor and Indigo Fair, of S/V Osprey. We are a couple of twenty-somethings who, with the help of our trusty little dog Marina, are preparing and outfitting our 37 foot sailboat for long term cruising. We’ve narrowed our project list down to the bare essentials and plan to do a serious revamping of the boat this summer while living aboard. Osprey is currently in the Pacific Northwest and if all goes as planned, will start her journey south towards Mexico in September, 2017. This has been a dream of ours for many years and after sailing extensively in the Pacific Northwest, we are eager to take the big left turn and set off on our next adventure. We’ve accepted the fact that we’re young and not exactly blessed financially. Rather than continue lusting over more comfortable, expensive boats and coming up with reasons to wait another year, we’ve decided to set off while we still can. A wise man once said “The best boat to go cruising in is the one you already have”.  So we plan to leave in a vessel that, like her crew, is not the saltiest, but ready to take on the challenge and arrive at the next destination (mostly) in one piece. For now, we are spending the winter in Hailey, an amazing wild west mountain town near Sun Valley, Idaho, living in our 22 ft. motorhome, working, sleeping, eating and snowboarding until the end of March when we will return to Osprey, sell off our assets and continue her enhancements. With this blog we aim to inspire others and prove that you don’t need a hefty bank account or a life’s savings to live your dream. Keep checking in for plenty of DIY boat projects, some backstory as to how we arrived here and the adventures to come. Thanks for reading and stay on the lookout for Fair Winds Ahead!