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To prepare to start our new life in Seattle, we wanted to bring all the items we need aboard Paradisean and in Seattle. We also wanted to bring our car as we\’ll be also doing some road trips up and down the coast. The 2240 mile drive to Seattle involves driving through Texas, New Mexico,

After 31 days aboard Express Athens, stopping at Ningbo, Tsingtao, Busan, Vancouver, Paradisean finally arrives in the Port of Seattle and is unloaded and then motor the 5 miles to Shilshole Bay Marina. The video of the unloading was captured by Rob, our dealer at Wright Yachts. I sped up the video midway through.

The dream of sailing off into the sunset and being totally disconnected from the world is our goal, but realistically, we still need to maintain a connection for navigation, weather, family, and our girls\’ education. As with other parts of our boat, we wanted redundancy as well as robustness for our network setup. The heart

We just got notified that the boat is completed! Next step:April 11th: Boat leaves the factory on a bargeApril 13th: Boat gets loaded on a cargo ship2nd half of May: Boat arrives in Seattle for commissioning!

With about 2 weeks before the boat is scheduled to ship, I did a quick trip to the Seawind Factory to see Paradisean before she is wrapped and shipped. The main objective is to look for any major issues that must be resolved at the factory, review electronic layout and the custom wiring were done

I jumped on a Starlux flight from Taipei to Saigon to visit the factory in district 7. I wanted to check on our build, which is reaching the half-way point, as well as to drop off some connectors and cables for some variation that were working with Seawind to install. The production supervisor Khang was