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Posts by Kathy Parsons 3 more responses to Judy’s question: My husband and I are thinking of living aboard a sailboat in 4 to 5 years from now. His daughter is grown and just purchased her first home while my daughter is a freshmen in high school. I suppose it is harder for me to take to the idea of living aboard because I have a really great paying job and I feel I need to help my daughter with college. I am only 39 so leaving my career is harder than I thought it would be. Any advice for me? …Read more  My big passion as I have cruised has been exploring language and culture. I have always loved getting to know other cultures: it is what drew me to the Peace Corps in the 1970s and part of what drew me to cruising almost 15 years later. Cruising provides a perfect pace for getting to know …Read more Here’s a great opportunity to meet another Women and Cruising friend: Janna Cawrse Esarey will be speaking at the 2010 Seattle Boat Show, January 29 – February 6, 2010, at Qwest Field. Janna is the author of The Motion of the Ocean: 1 Small Boat, 2 Average Lovers, and a Woman’s Search for …Read more In case you have been wondering, Women and Cruising has no corporate office. Our webmaster Sylvie works on the website and blog from her boat in the Caribbean. Our contributors usually send in their posts and articles from their boats, using wifi, a satellite phone, or a local internet cafe. I correspond with our contributors …Read more  I’ve just made the “shlep” again – I flew to the US for Christmas to visit family and just flew back to the boat in the Bahamas yesterday loaded down with boat parts. Over time, I’ve found three little things that help. A simple luggage scale makes it easy to weigh each bag …Read more ‘Twas the week before Christmas, and we cruisers are getting in the spirit of the season. This year we have been enjoying the Christmas season in the Abacos. We attended the 11th annual Lighting of the Tree on Green Turtle Cay. The Christmas carols were the best part. Choirs from each of the island’s five …Read more We had a great time at the Women and Cruising Seminar Sunday October 11, 2009 at the Annapolis Boat Show. For the first time ever, Beth Leonard, circumnavigator and author of the Voyager’s Handbook joined us. And Pam Wall and I LOVED having her – she was a great member of the Women …Read more While you’re at the 2009 Annapolis Sailboat Show, be sure to stop by the Author’s Corner (Booth M5) and talk cruising. Another reason that I love the Annapolis Boat Show is that I get to hang out with two of my favorite cruising authors, Jimmy Cornell and John Otterbacher (author of Sailing Grace). 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 …Read more … 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 …Read more 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 Free, no advanced …Read more  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 …Read more |
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