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Category: TIPS & IDEAS Heather McCarthy has been sailing with her husband, Dan, and their three daughters, the “McMermaids” since 2011. They are currently cruising the Florida Keys, Dry Tortugas, and the Bahamas onboard s/v Jullanar. Here, Heather answers a few questions about how solar cooking has opened up a whole new suite of cruising food options for …Read more  Anne Patterson and her solar oven, in her ‘other galley’ (the SEA LADY foredeck) Three years ago on the Women and Cruising blog, Anne Patterson of sv Sea Lady wrote about cooking aboard with a solar oven. Her experience with the solar oven was so favorable, that when the company producing her …Read more  This is the second half of a 2-part article first published in the South African Sailing magazine of April and May 2014. You can read part 1 here. Multitasking I am never bored and always busy. Being able to multitask was for me a must and required good organisational skills. I was sometimes …Read more  My husband was pretty sure I was serious about selling up and going cruising when I returned the gold watch he had given me for our anniversary (“She’s even too crazy to be a cruiser,” I hear you gasp). However, what really convinced him was when I parted with my (shamefully vast) collection of “Cottage Living” and “Victoria” …Read more  Under the guise of a routine checkup, I set up an appointment to see our doctor before we quit our jobs and lost our medical benefits. I didn’t need the doctor to check me out; I wanted her to check out my list of First Aid supplies for our boat. Paul and I were going …Read more  “You baked that? On your boat?? In a solar oven???” Whenever I present a double-layer homemade carrot cake like this one I’m sure to be met with incredulous guests. Most cruisers do little baking anyway, so I had them on “from scratch”. Trusting their culinary fortunes to the sun is a real stretch – no …Read more  You hear the rattle of chain and you run for the binoculars – everyone knows that anchoring is a spectator sport. You wonder, “Are they coming our way?” You sneak a quick peek at their anchor. You think, “Oh good, it’s not a CQR.” The guy is at the helm. The tiny woman is at …Read more  Anyone else have canvas on her boat? Yes?! I do. Lots of it. Big and small. Canvas is important protective covering for your boat. It saves you money and time by protecting teak from the sun, keeping dirt out of your winches and instruments, and keeping you cool at …Read more  The iPad was one of he best purchases we made before leaving the US. We bought it at the last minute after realizing that buying new chart cards for our rather outdated chart-plotter could become quite expensive in the long run. The iPad 3/4G comes with an “assisted GPS” (the basic WiFi version does not have a GPS receiver) and while in the Apple store we talked to several of the geniuses about what exactly assisted GPS …Read more  From watching dolphins leaping at the bow, seeking companionship from a banking shearwater during lonely ocean watchers or flushing hundreds of tiny sparkling plankton down the loo(!), sailors are overwhelmingly in tune with the natural world.  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 …Read more |
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