Heather Brewer and Paul Bultema hadn’t spent much time thinking about the idea of working on board until the pandemic sent them both home from their tech-industry jobs. They decided to give it a try, and then, after getting a taste of the good life, they decided to seriously go for it.
“People can make all kinds of statements or be naysayers, but you just have to be committed that this can work,” Brewer says. “And it did work.”
Aboard their Nordhavn 43, , they wanted to be able to have two simultaneous video streams going no matter where they were in the world, so they copied the setup that a chief scientist at Amazon had while circumnavigating. It was based on KVH’s VSAT equipment, and the hardware cost about $30,000. They also used Wi-Fi hot spots and a cellular system, depending on what they could access from different locations. “On average, over the next two years, we spent about
