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By:        
Kathy Parsons   Pam Wall   Gwen Hamlin
Kathy Parsons   Pam Wall   Gwen Hamlin

When we first contemplated cruising years ago, we were filled with doubts and questions: everything from Can I do it? to How do I do it? to Do I even want to do it?

This website is designed to help you answer these questions for yourself. We do this by sharing our experiences and inviting other women cruisers to share theirs as well.

This site grew out of the Women and Cruising Seminars that we have been offering at boat shows and cruiser gatherings throughout the US for several years.  

We developed the Women and Cruising seminar to give women (particularly novice sailors) an opportunity to voice the hundreds of questions they often have on their minds as they contemplate setting off with their partners or on their own.

This web site supports and expands upon the material that we hand out in the seminars. It is growing as we invite other cruising women (and friends!) to share their advice, perspectives and hard-won experience.

Ultimately, it's about making friends, making cruising our own, and getting out on the water and enjoying our lives!

We welcome YOUR contributions to Women and Cruising.

About us

Women & Cruising seminars

 

Our Store

Buy cruising books through the Women and Cruising store and help support the site and our upcoming projects.


 

 

Resources

Lots of links, books, and downloads on topics that interest women who contemplate going cruising, including • communications • learning to sail • kids aboard.

View the complete list...

Blog

Ask your Questions

If you have a question about going cruising that you want answered...

 

Email it to: kathy@forcruisers.com. We will send it out to to several of our contributors for their thoughts.

We post some of these questions and answers on the Women and Cruising Blog.

Take your Passion Cruising

On the Women and Cruising Blog, women cruisers discuss the various ways that their hobbies and passions enrich their cruising.

Kathy Parsons shopping for herbs and spices in Fort de France, Martinique  

 

How We Learn

Women tell us how they have learned the skills they need to sail and cruise.

How answering a personal ad led me to become a skilled cruiser  

Women & Cruising Articles

The Admiral's Angle Monthly Column

Every month, Gwen Hamlin and the "Admirals" weigh in on the issues that concern women cruisers.

 

 

The Admiral's Angle column appears on this website the month after it appears in the Latitudes and Attitudes magazine.

Galley Advice from 18 Cruising Women

18 cruising women offer tips and advice for setting up your galley and cooking aboard, discuss the gear that they couldn't live without, and invite you into their galleys.

Read what they have to say...

What I Like most about Cruising?... 15 Women Speak

Ellen Sanpere

WHY do we go cruising?

We asked some of our friends to share what they most like about sailing off into the sunset.

Read what they had to say...