Windvane: It's our main self-steering system. It's quiet, doesn't use electricity and steers perfectly. It's our third crewmember and probably the most important thing on board.

Solar Panels: They give us electricity for everything. The engine, fridge, navigation and electronics, laptops, cell phones, radar and our electrical autopilot if we need it.

GPS: Although people used to sail around the world with a chart, sextant and compass, we couldn't go anywhere without our GPS.

What has been the most rewarding thing about living small?

Learning about a different way of living. When you live on land, you are so used to having all these facilities like hot water, electricity, transportation and garbage bins. We have to look for other options, but it also means that we don't have a lot of bills. We have our travel and boat insurance and that's it. All the other costs we can manage quite well.

We meet so many nice people along the way who live their lives differently, and it really opens our minds. People with children who go away for some time and homeschool their kids, retired couples who dream about this for a long time and finally hit off and solo sailors who left everything and everybody and never want to go back to a different way of life.