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Category: STORIESCruising Life
 For the last five-plus years, I’ve been living almost exclusively on a boat. My husband, Jim, and I sold our home and somewhat naively hit the water running. Not exactly sure what we were running from and most definitely in the dark about how this change would alter our life’s predetermined path. We retired rather early from [...] Cruising with Kids, TIPS
 Taking your children’s education to sea is not always simple, but neither is it a deeply complicated mystery. Once you capture a child’s interest, With careful decision-making and sensible preparations – just what you need for going cruising in general – you can let your children profit from an incredible learning opportunity. Just [...] Cruising with Kids, Sharing Our Stories
 What if you are “empty nesters” over the age of 50, and want to go sailing off into retirement with your spouse. Are you afraid you will seldom see your children? Will you miss spoiling the grandchildren and watching them advance through the stages of childhood? Sharing Our Stories
 Nothing can stop a woman from reading! Reading served to fuel my determination that one day I would go cruising. My wish finally came in 2006 after finally having a little space between children’s final exams. Our six children are spread over a large range, and for many years we were constantly preparing one of them for high school graduation. The break came and this was my [...] Cruising Life, TIPS
 Imagine this…You are one week out on a three week trip and you realize that funky odor is coming from your trash and there is no place to toss the bag and get it off the boat. Okay, I might be a bit obsessive about my trash and I admit it, but I come by it [...] Cruising with Kids
 Recently, a big hubbub was made in the national news about a family of five – the Craftons – who completed a circumnavigation aboard their sailboat! To landlubbers who are unaware of the global cruising community, the Crafton family’s circumnavigation seemed so audacious a thing to attempt, that it must be singular, so unfamiliar, it must [...] STORIES
 I always thought that my fellow female cruisers experience the cruising lifestyle in a sort of similar way. That is, have similar expectations, apprehensions and passions. That fears they experience, the interests and dreams pursued and the skills obtained, would be generally the same. So, I asked some questions. In fact, I asked all the lady cruisers I had [...] Cruising with Kids, Press Releases
 We are so excited! A project in the making for almost a year is finally coming together! We call it 12 Questions to 12 Sailing Families, and the first contribution – the story of sv New Life and the Echenard Family of three from Switzerland — is already in place. Rich with [...] Cruising with Kids
 When our family of 4 began our exciting transition to the cruising life aboard our 35′ Cal Cruising Windfall in November 2008, we had everything planned out. We would explore Mexico by skimming lightly off our savings if we needed to, but the monthly interest that we received off our conservative investments would be the [...] Lessons Learned, Relationships & Roles Aboard
 On even the most perfect weekend afternoon, we see only a handful of empty slips; most boats jostle restlessly in place like drunken tombstones. Smart, motivated, and capable people own these craft: doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs, craftsmen, teachers, engineers, etc. They’ve sacrificed and saved and dedicated significant resources for years to buy, berth, and maintain their boats, yet [...] Books, Websites & Blogs, Relationships & Roles Aboard
 Through a sequence of connections it would take a page to recount, I’ve come back in touch with a cruiser I first met in a group of West Coast sailors getting ready to leave for the South Pacific from Puerto Vallarta back in 2003. A series of maintenance problems cropped up and kept Nick and his [...] How We Learn, People Who've Inspired Us
 I have learned from many sailors over the years, but none so much as the years I spent in the cockpit of my father’s ‘old classic woodies’ on the Great Lakes. Being the youngest of 5 and having lost my mother to her nursing career, I tagged along behind the Captain (my father) and learned by [...] |
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