NICE TO MEET YOU!
We're Tom and Andrea.
From Living Large in Texas to Living LARGER in Our Tiny Floating Home
Ten years ago, we lived in our dream home on a big piece of land in Texas, and we could NEVER have imagined how life would change over the next decade.
It didn't happen overnight, but we've successfully transitioned from life on land to full-time liveaboard life.
We want to show YOU how to make that transition, too!
We raised our two, now-grown sons in Texas, and that’s where we bought our first boat, a SeaDoo Speedster. It’s a little boat made for BIG fun, and we brought it out to the California desert when we relocated several years ago.
One weekend, we trailered the little jet boat to San Diego and serendipitously met a couple who was selling their “starter” liveaboard boat. She was a humble but adorable 1983 Bayliner. A few weeks later, we were officially owners of a liveaboard boat in downtown San Diego. As an homage to our love of the South, we christened her "Sea Y'all!"
After quickly discovering that the liveaboard life was DEFINITELY a fit for us, we began the search for Sea Y’all version 2.0. We looked at exactly three boats, all in one day. When we first laid eyes on this DeFever 44, we instantly fell in love and knew she was meant to be ours!
Four years later we are full-time liveaboards in San Diego, loving life more than ever!
We’re just a regular couple offering living proof that Act Two of life can be the biggest and best adventure of your life! We DREAMED BIG and then chased that dream until it became reality.
OUR MISSION?
To inspire other couples to do the same thing.
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
• The captain of our life adventures
• Bi-coastal: grew up in Rhode Island then Southern California
• 35+ career in the hospitality industry
• Loves the New England Patriots, paddle boarding, playing the ukulele and skippering Sea Y’all
• Cruise Director, chef, decorator and chief party planner
• Native Louisianian, bringing southern cooking and culture to the Sea Y’all Life
• Loves travel and boat adventures with the "boat family"
• Writer, Director and Producer of The Sea Y’all Life on YouTube and social media
• Sassy, classy and a bit smart assy
• The dock mascot
• Loves paddle boarding with her dad
• Been a boat dog her whole life
• Sea Y'all!
• 1988, 44-foot DeFever Trawler
• Born in Koahsiung, Taiwan
• Weighs in at 44,000 pounds
• Full displacement hull
• Created by Arthur DeFever
• Powered by shiny red, twin Ford Lehman engines
