Hi! We’re Phillip and Luana and we live aboard our 30-something year old sailing yacht, Nightshade.

In our previous landlubber lives, Phillip was a Chief Technical Officer, working for a luxury goods company in London. He left the rat-race to pursue a more creative lifestyle, and now that we’re living aboard, he’ll be drawing on his college graphic design qualifications and freelancing remotely as a ‘digital nomad’.

Luana has worked in the film and television, web, and publishing industries. Onboard, she’ll freelance as a copy-editor and proofreader. She also runs an Etsy shop selling her handmade malas, free-spirited jewellery (currently not running at full capacity while she figures out how to post stuff safely from all over the place) and digital prints.

We purchased Nightshade in late 2019, in Corfu, Greece. We had little to no sailing experience, so we did a couple of RYA courses in Southampton and Corfu (totally different experiences!). We moved aboard in November 2019 and spent almost two years doing a refit and just generally making her our home. During that time we had a lot of frustrating delays and setbacks thanks to Covid-19 (as did everyone).

Nevertheless, we managed to get most of the important boat work completed over August and September 2021, and finally, in October 2021 we left the marina in Corfu for good and headed across the southern Adriatic to Croatia, where we are currently based and enjoying a slower pace of life. Read our blogposts to catch up on our adventures, past and present.