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Tag: SkillsA philosophy I picked up twenty years ago from a significant mentor has guided the way I’ve approached most everything since. I call it my Toolbox Theory. At issue at the time was taking my scuba instructor’s certification. An expensive, challenging, week-long course with a major practical test at the end, it was all daunting in [...] Bonjour, hola, buenos dias, malo lei lei, bula, g’day…..these are ways to “hello” from the Caribbean to Australia. Tackling foreign languages can be scary. There are the pitfalls of pronunciation, the embarrassments of using a wrong word, the confusion of word order, the mysteries of gender, and the maze of myriad verb tenses. But the [...] It’s not everyday you run across a woman who owns and sails her own boat. But it’s not all that uncommon either. People are inclined to make a big deal of it, but really why should they? There is nothing about boating that a woman can’t take on if she’s of a mind to and [...] Not every woman comes with a man attached to her hip. For some this is a good situation and for others not so good, but for women wanting to go cruising, it could be seen as a handicap. Certainly the majority of the cruising community is comprised of couples, but it is often surprising to [...] Recently I was asked, “What should cruising women know about their engine rooms?” It’s easy to answer, “As much as possible.” But there are plenty of ladies who would exclaim, “As little as possible!” Most of us did not grow up mucking about with motors, electricity, or plumbing projects, and so the engine room on [...] It’s hard to remember a time when starboard and port did not come instinctively, when I had to spin around and face forward and look at my right or left hand to know which term I wanted. These days fore and aft, bow and stern, topsides and below, hatch and companionway, galley and head, cabin [...] Are cruisers model citizens or black sheep? Cruiser character ranked against criteria from the heartland of [...] Driving the dinghy is a real skill worth learning early to support confidence and avoid [...] |
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