Episode 1 — The Boat I Never Asked For
Nine years ago,
I never imagined our family would be living on the water.
I didn’t grow up dreaming about boats.
I wasn’t obsessed with the ocean.
And honestly, this whole life
wasn’t even my idea.
It was my husband’s.
One day, while I was in Japan with our two young kids,
he quietly started building a boat.
Not buying one.
Building one.
From scratch.
A 50-foot catamaran.
There were no blueprints.
No shipyard.
Just a dusty workshop with a dirt floor
and a man who refused to stop.
At the time, I honestly thought it was impossible.
We barely had money.
Some weeks our bank card wouldn’t even work at the supermarket.
Five dollars for a playgroup felt like a luxury.
I skipped birthday parties
because I couldn’t afford a present.
And somehow, in the middle of all that,
my husband was building a boat.
If you had asked me back then
what our future looked like,
living on the water
would have been the last answer I gave.
But life doesn’t always follow the plans you make.
Sometimes it follows the plans
someone else makes.
Nine years later,
our family is still living on the water.
A homemade 50-foot power catamaran
anchored in the shallow waters of the Gold Coast.
Our car is a small tender boat.
Our dog chases dolphins.
Our kids learned to drive a boat
before they learned to drive a car.
And every day,
the tide changes the ground beneath our home
here in the Broadwater.
This isn’t a sailing adventure story.
It’s simply the life
that happened to us.
And it all started
with a boat I never asked for.
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