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Category: STORIES Actually, it was the other way around: It was my passion that took me cruising. I became an avid scuba diver while living in New York City. I know it sounds odd, but not only is there some excellent (and very historical) diving in the New York metro area, but the city probably has the world’s best access OUT by air to great diving …Read more 
It’s been over a year and a half since we pulled out of our home port of Bainbridge Island, Washington, and headed south. Going cruising as a family, instead of waiting for our children to leave the nest, is one of the best choices my husband and I have ever made. Sure, we have some challenges that …Read more  “Are we gonna make it?” (me) 60 SECONDS …Read more  In December 1992 I answered one more personal ad in the “Columbus Monthly” magazine, a glossy trendy publication in Columbus, Ohio. I responded by writing a note, as it was before Internet dating and instant gratification. Don called me after receiving that note. What I did not understand at first was that he was …Read more  Kathleen Watt responds 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  Everyone has heard what has happened in Haiti, now a number of cruising sailors are organizing themselves into flotillas of private yachts to attempt to supplement aid being delivered by governments and NGO’s. OceansWatch is helping to coordinate a fleet of sailing vessels to take food, medical aid, relief supplies and support to Haiti. …Read more  “A land lubber might be forgiven for thinking that when we commit to the cruising life our main and overriding passion is for sailing. Very often this is true, of course, but we are not one-dimensional creatures. We all have other interests, other passions — some long-standing and others we’ve never had time for …Read more  If you’re not an animal lover, you may as well skip this particular log entry. Just go ahead and exit the site, or move on to the next post, because what I’m about to talk about will only deeply affect those who have large hearts for God’s creatures. Here’s a story for you Back in …Read more  Unfortunately, I can’t hide that I have a Seashell Problem. Friends get worried when they see me walking the beach. Why keeping the eyes on the ground instead of contemplating waves and horizon as is the custom? “Have you lost something?” Fishermen watch too. They wonder what …Read more  I’m not sure that my experience of cruising is altogether normal… I dumped my maiden name, Land and its beguiling earthly forms, abandoned my job surveying wildlife and plunged into an alien world of motion and water. David and I bowled off from the shores of Devon, England, in our ancient sailing boat who, in her heyday, had been much …Read more  When my husband, Evans Starzinger, suggested sailing around the world, I had almost no sailing experience and reacted much the same way I would have if he had suggested flying a rocket to the moon. It took him two years to convince me to sail away with him, and he never would have done …Read more |
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