About us

Ben and Chantale, formerly aboard At Ease, a Carver 445.  We lived aboard full-time, having sold our home in Fairfax, VA in 2017, until we sold our boat in the spring of 2021; we like to say that we were on a 6,000 mile house-hunting trip, looking for just the right waterfront community to put down roots again.

We embarked on the Great Loop* journey in May 2019, completing our Loop (‘crossing our wake’) in June 2020. We cruised for almost another year, up to the Chesapeake Bay, and then back down to, and across Florida.

*The Great Loop is a circumnavigation of the eastern U.S., and part of Canada.  The route includes the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, the New York State Canals, the Canadian Canals, the Great Lakes, the inland rivers, and the Gulf of Mexico.

See the webpage for the America’s Great Loop Cruising Association, here, for more information about the trip, to include a video overview.