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ASK YOUR QUESTIONS, Outfitting, TIPS
We recently purchased a Com-Pac 23 (an upgrade from a Com-Pac 19). We take many extended stays on the water throughout the summer, hoping to someday take off for the big blue waters. My question, as we start to stock our boat, is: What organizing tips and tricks do your contributors have for us rookies?
I always thought it was Ben Franklin who coined the phrase, “A place for everything and everything in its place.” …Read more Books, Websites & Blogs
Book Review – Mariner’s Guide to Nautical Information, by Priscilla Travis. Cornell Maritime Press
A handsome new hardcover book Mariner’s Guide to Nautical Information It appears at first glance to be simply a glossary of nautical terms and expressions. It takes a second look to realize that many entries go well beyond simple definitions to include expanded explanations, common applications, and relevant advice accompanied by lots of photographs, diagrams and illustrations. …Read more Cruising Life
A year ago, I wrote about “Birding Aboard” for Women and Cruising‘s series, Take Your Passion Cruising. It turned out I was not alone in my passion for observing and enjoying birds while cruising. Thanks to the phenomenal network of Women and Cruising, I connected to several other dedicated “birders-aboard,” including
Together we organized the first worldwide “SeaBC” SeaBird Count, where cruisers tally and submit their ocean and coastal bird sightings to eBird‘s online database. These sightings become a resource for scientists and provide much-needed data on seabird abundance and distribution. Participation spanned over 100 degrees of latitude — from the Gulf of Maine at North 48º to South 58º on Antarctica’s Weddell Sea. But most counts were from more temperate latitudes, such as the islands off Africa, Chile’s Golfo de Penas, and the Caribbean. …Read more Events and Seminars
Cruisers University will be held in conjunction with the new Annapolis Spring Sailboat Show and will offer 4 days of seminars to prepare you for cruising. Pam and I are part of an impressive line-up of instructors, including Nigel Calder, Lee Chesneau, George Day, Herb McCormick, Gary Jobson, Cindy Wallach, Liza Copeland, John Martino, Jim Drury and many others. You can attend the 3-day Cruising Preparation series, the 4-day Master Cruisers series, or the 1-day Cruisers Education series. There will be both classroom and on-board classes. There are technical series of classes covering diesel maintenance, electrical systems and modern navigation, plus cruising destination series (Bahamas, Caribbean, etc), and many individual seminars. Pam and I thoroughly enjoyed Cruisers University last year and are excited to be back again this year. The energy and enthusiasm in the seminar rooms is contagious and our discussions are always lively and in-depth. Cruisers University catches attendees at a crucial point: the men and women attending have a dream to go cruising but it is still an uncertain dream. Over the course of the weekend, they learn so much that the dream becomes a shared plan, and attendees leave eager and prepared to make their dream a reality. I love being able to contribute to that transformation. And what better place for it all to begin in than in Annapolis, truly a sailor’s town and home of the big Fall Annapolis Boat Show! Here are the seminars I will be giving at Cruisers University: Lessons Learned
All cruisers are trying to find the sweet spot of “exactly enough” — exactly enough spares, exactly enough gear, exactly enough provisions, exactly enough planning — but we all know, even as we strive, that our careful attempts at finding “exactly enough” are made in changing conditions based on incomplete knowledge and are bound to miss the mark regularly. Cruising Life
What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice and everything nice. Well if everything nice means a fresh coat of makeup, painted nails, pretty hair, and a good pair of heels, then I am in trouble. Being a lady at sea is a constant uphill battle. …Read more How We Learn
“Wow! How did you end up doing that?!“ I’m a North-American woman in my late twenties, and for the last several years I’ve worked on and off on tall ships, mostly doing education work with youth. Right now I’m in Tasmania doing the same, and truly having the experience of a lifetime on a big sturdy brigantine at the threshold of the Southern Ocean. I did not grow up on the water, and until I was 20 …Read more ASK YOUR QUESTIONS, The Big Decision
Sabrina writes
Gwen Hamlin answers. …Read moreCruising Life
Men become swarthy, they get to grow beards and have an excuse to be unwashed and scruffy. Unfortunately, what can be dashing for men is not nearly so attractive in women! The transition from landlubber looks to cruising couture happens quite rapidly.For ease and convenience (and the preservation of bilge pumps) women often cut their hair shorter; Though in my case it was the result of having my daughter cut my hair while we were on a heel! …Read more NEWS
Happy New Year everyone.It’s the time of year when many magazines compile their top ten lists. So we decided to make our own list. What conclusion can we draw from 2011’s list of most popular posts on the Women and Cruising Blog? Perhaps only that we women cruisers are a diverse group – as concerned about the practicalities (shampoo!, dinghies!, finances!, seasickness!, pressure cookers!…) as we are about the experience of cruising. So check out this list. Perhaps some of these posts slipped by you this year. Add your own comments to these posts so that future readers can benefit from your experience. And while you are at it, put on your to-do list for 2012: Write for Women and Cruising! Here are the 12 most-read posts on Women and Cruising in 2011.
Lessons Learned
There is lots of good company here, many interesting boats and a boat builder specializing in Fire and Rescue Boats, some of which many of you may have seen in action. “What would we do differently when we strike off again” is a question — or perhaps a series of questions.Did we enjoy our travels? Was it worth it? Would we do it again? Are there things we would do differently? The answer to all of those questions is ABSOLUTELY. Next time we will leave earlier. …Read moreBooks, Websites & Blogs, Cruising Life
The following excerpts are from the chapter “Woman to Woman”. My life styleCruising was a new way of life for us and our family. It bore little relationship to anything we ever did before and totally shook up our three children. Sure, we had plenty of family sailing, racing, fishing and other outdoor activity, experience, but living aboard and cruising? Decisions, decisions, some of the considerations we had were, think about selling the house or renting the house, unloading stuff to kids or relatives or storing goods. Beginnings
We began as weekend sailors with our three small children and a trailerable sailboat. …Read more |
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It is fair to wonder if there is any lingo more alien to a newcomer than the jargon of sailors? “Boat speak” appears to be English (most of the time), but so many terms consolidate reams of meaning and process. How’s a newcomer to even get started?
by Priscilla Travis, has arrived on the scene to help you out.
We will be headed to my parent’s home next week. While we are there we will be telling them as well as my brother’s family that we are sailing away in 2013 (finally – yay!).
Ann, on 
We are still year round boaters and consider from time to time when we might head off again for a year or more of sailing. Currently work beckons and so we enjoy 
In their new book 