Posts by Kathy Parsons

Books, Websites & Blogs

Read the Caribbean Compass online!

I just got news today that you can now read the Caribbean Compass FREE online every month.

If you’ve cruised the Caribbean, you certainly know about the Caribbean Compass. It’s a free waterfront news magazine,  started by former cruiser Sally Erdle. Sally and her husband Tom circumnavigated from  1989-1994 aboard their Rhodes [...]

Books, Websites & Blogs

1 Small Boat, 2 Average Lovers and a Woman’s Search for the Meaning of Wife

… That’s the subtitle of Janna Cawrse Esarey’s new book The Motion of the Ocean, that we mentioned a while back on the blog. I haven’t had a chance to read it yet (though I like her subtitle) and such lines as:

“Choosing a mate is like picking a house paint from one of those [...]

Women and Cruising Seminar

See you at the 2009 Annapolis Boat Show!

It’s less than a month away and we’re getting excited about the Annapolis Boat Show.

We’ve received a number of emails asking about the Women and Cruising Seminar, so here are the details again:

Women and Cruising Seminar
Sunday October 11, 2009
12:00 – 1:30pm
Ballroom of the Annapolis Marriott Waterfront Hotel

Free, no advanced [...]

TIPS

Boat Maintenance Tip: Download User and Service Manuals

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Like most cruisers I am superstitious: I figure if I have the all the Users, Service and Technical Manuals for the equipment aboard our boat, I probably won’t need to use them! The problem is that most equipment is shipped with bare-bones users manuals these days. However, these same companies often offer the same Users Manual PLUS Service, Technical and Troubleshooting Manuals in Adobe PDF format for FREE [...]

Books, Websites & Blogs

Admiral’s Angle is on Women and Cruising!

Did you know that you can read all 36 (and counting!) columns of Admiral’s Angle on the Women and Cruising site?

Gwen Hamlin has been writing this column monthly for Latitudes and Attitudes magazine since September of 2006. Gwen has a group of women cruisers (Admirals) that [...]

Women and Cruising Seminar

Join Women and Cruising at the Annapolis Boat Show – Oct 11, 2009!

Thanks to Cruising World, we will once again be giving the Women and Cruising Seminar at the Annapolis Boat Show this Fall. It’s been a while since we have done the seminar so it will be a happy reunion for us – and for women and [...]

News from Women and Cruising contributors

How Yvonne Chooses Where We Cruise

Gwen Hamlin devoted her April and May 2009 Admiral’s Angle columns to “How We Choose Where We Cruise”. Here the husband of one of the Admirals throws in his two cents:

“Let me tell you how Yvonne chooses how we cruise

Take Your Passion Cruising

Take Your Passion Cruising: Birdwatching

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“Watching and identifying birds and animals is a passion, especially with Yvonne. She has documented the names of over 2500 bird species and continues to be just as excited when she positively identifies one she has never seen as she was twenty years ago when we started a hobby that requires binoculars only. [...]

Press Releases

Women and their Galleys

www.womenandcruising.com website mounts new feature on cruising women and their galleys

18 Experienced Cruising Women Invite You into their Galleys & Share Insights about Galley Functionality & Equipment in Real Cruising Situations

WomenandCruising.com – a website dedicated to providing advice, resources and inspiration for women cruisers – has just added a [...]

Books, Websites & Blogs

Motion of the Ocean by Janna Cawrse Esarey

Has anyone read this new hot-off-the-press book by Janna Cawrse Esarey? She seems to have a great sense of humor – and it’s certainly a “Woman and Cruising” type book!

Janna just sent Gwen Hamlin an email announcing her book and we both went to check out:

Janna’s website, Her YouTube video [...]

Events and Seminars

Beth Schwarzman – Women’s Sailing Conference – June 6

Beth Schwarzman will be the keynote speaker at the 8th Women’s Sailing Conference to be held June 6 at the Corinthian Yacht Club in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

Beth is a cruising sailor who has dropped anchor in harbors in the Faeroe Islands, Brazil, West Africa, Cuba, Estonia, Belize, and Newfoundland, among others. She [...]

News from Women and Cruising contributors

Suzanne Giesemann has a new book!

Suzanne Giesemann sent in the following news a little over a week ago.

I knew she had a new book coming out (this one has nothing to do with sailing, yet it sounds very interesting) and I was hoping she might mention something about it.

Suzanne writes: