August 4, 2020
Our piece of paradise in Portugal
Big Sky is for sale.
Two videos below showcase Big Sky inside and outside.
For detailed information click here.
Count down to move-in day.
Following 14 fabulous years living aboard our floating luxury condo, she is now for sale. Pictured above with the winter house.
​Click here for details.
Barb and Con Sprenger
Our live-a-board life style is coming to an end.
Our past 14 years exploring the Mediterranean, Baltic, and Black Seas, and sailing up and down the Atlantic has been an eye-opening and inspiring way to spend our retirement. In a word, it’s been magical. Waking in the morning at anchor surrounded by calm blue waters is my version of heaven. I’ll be homesick for the hundreds of chattering, leaping dolphins who have greeted us over the years while underway, and the occasional whale and dozens of flying fish. I’ll miss the ease we had waking in one country, and having dinner in another. Changing languages with our greetings like changing socks. We will miss the sailing community, perhaps the most friendly community out there.
The count down is now quite real for us as we will soon transition off Big Sky and into our house in Carvoeiro, Portugal.
Con’s realized dream, “To Sail in Retirement” began for us in 2007 and has been quite possibly his greatest dream for retirement.

A message for those with a similar dream, “Don’t put it off for tomorrow, as there are no guarantees in life. Do it now while you have your health and youth.” — That’s my thought for the day.
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Visit Portugal 2020.
For a peak at our house click here.
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My article: The Inspirational Philosophy of Sailing Through Life: https://www.nauticalmind.com/blog/2012/02/sailing-through-life/
Below: View of Sintra from Castle dos Mouros; Erice amphitheatre in Sicily; Gulfo di Castelemmarre, Sicily; castles in Erice; Paxos in the Greek Ionian, and the northern end of the island of Milos.
09/22/19