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The Boat

The Boat

August, 3, 2023sailingthewind

The boat was named after the song “La Vie Dansante” which is French for “the dancing life”. No, the boat in the video above is not our boat (it’s shown below) but you can hear the wonderful song and concept she is named after. The La Vie Dansante is a 1998 Endeavorcat 34 manufactured by Endeavor Catamarans out of Clearwater Florida. She was chosen as our ship of dreams first and foremost simply because she was a catamaran. Why a catamaran? Now there’s a long story which I will shorten for the sake of the reader. Suffice it to say that while flying a 50 passenger jet out of Detroit I received a letter from my wife telling me she was ready and willing to move aboard a boat and explore the idea of going cruising–however the offer came with two provisos. The first was that there would be no transoceanic voyaging and secondly the vessel had to be a catamaran. I had been waiting on this opportunity for years and felt her demands were more than reasonable. No, she isn’t adorned with teak and bronze and all the other sexy trappings of a traditional yacht which is what I […]

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The Boat

The Dancing Life

August, 3, 2023sailingthewind

The boat is not sexy looking but does sail surprisingly well. As far as a live aboard goes in my opinion she would be hard to beat. She has three staterooms total. Two queen berths in the stern of each hull and a master bedroom oriented admidships in the forward portion of the bridgedeck. The galley in the port hull is spacious and so is the head in the starboard hull which has a separate shower enclosure. Forward of the head is the generator room where I am able to keep plenty of spares and parts for maintenance. Shown below is a diagram of the La Vie Dansante.

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