Welcome to our website which will provide a view into the life of John and Ann Taylor on a sailing adventure on Livin the Dream, a 44-foot Stamas sailing ketch.  We hope this website will share our sailing adventures with family and friends and provide useful information to other cruisers or cruise dreamers.

For 15 years we have dreamed of living on a sailboat.   We have chartered bareboats in the Caribbean, Tahiti, the San Juan Islands, the Florida Keys, Southwest Florida, and the Seychelles . We owned a 27 foot O'Day that we sailed for several years on Lake Lanier in Georgia .  For 10 years, we have been developing a plan to retire early and go sailing.  Our goal was 2008.  During 2005, several things came together to accelerate our plan and we decided to go for it.  We are both too young to retire, so we just stopped working.  Maybe we are going through our mid-life crisis together.  We bought a cruising boat in November 2005, sold our house in Atlanta in mid-February 2006, and moved onto the boat.  We are hoping to sail for 5 – 7 years, but we will evaluate along the way. 

We named our boat Livin the Dream, although Ann’s mother thinks it should be named “My Mother-in-Law’s Nightmare”.  She was built in 1984 (our boat not Ann’s mother), and has 2 cabins (bedrooms) and 2 heads (bathrooms), a galley (kitchen) with 3-burner stove & oven, refrigerator, freezer and washer/dryer.   See About the Boat for more details on the boat.

Our family is not excited about our adventure and our lifestyle choice.  They are worried about all the bad things that can happen (bad weather, pirates, and sickness) and think they will never see or hear from us again.  We hope they will get more comfortable with the plan and realize that we will stay in touch through email, this website, and phone calls when ever possible.  

Check out our monthly Cruising Logs to get an update on our adventures.

John grew up in Michigan and his Dad continues to live in the Detroit area.  Ann grew up in Georgia and her parents live in a small town in Northwest Georgia .  John has 5 married children and they are scattered in Utah, Las Vegas, and Houston, TX .  We have 16 grandchildren ranging from 12  to 1.  

Send us comments or questions via email at johnandann@livinthedreamcruising.com.  We will respond as soon as we have access to the internet..

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Last updated: May 04, 2010.