PROFILE: Julie and Daniel (Gaviidae)

Julie and Daniel are full time nomads spending the summer months living on our Gozzard 41 sailboat named Gaviidae and winter months housesitting. Our boat is currently on the Great Lakes and we usually cover about 1200 nautical miles a season (1380 miles or 2222 kilometres) so we never really stay put in any one place for very long. Our housesitting goals are the same – we pick an area we’d like to visit and look for sits in that area. Up to this point we’ve stayed in the US and Canada but hope to expand out further in the coming years.
Before the nomad life, we lived in Minneapolis MN with jobs that demanded far too much. In 2015 we sold our condo and possessions and moved onto the boat and joined the life of wanderers. Best decision, ever! We cover our travels (and trials) on our website gaviidaesails.com. Anyone with a boat will understand the “trials” part of the equation! Fair winds!