Category: NEWS

Books, Websites, Blogs

Diving for Cruisers - Admirals' Angle Collection Updated

We’ve just updated our collection of Gwen Hamlin’s Admirals’ Angle columns with the latest two being about cruisers’ relationship with the water that surrounds them.

As a veteran dive instructor, Gwen has good ideas about how to prep your boat and yourselves for safely adding scuba and snorkeling to your voyage, and the Admirals [...]

Books, Websites, Blogs

World Cruising Destinations, Jimmy Cornell’s new book!

Wow!

I just got my copy of Jimmy Cornell’s new World Cruising Destinations this last week – and I am in love with it!

I’ve carried Jimmy Cornell’s books aboard my boat ever since I bought my first copy of World Cruising Routes in the late ‘80s.

When I was finally lucky enough to have [...]

Cruising with Kids, Press Releases

Sailing Families – Women and Cruising’s newest project!

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 [...]

Books, Websites, Blogs

Interview with a Cruiser: Gwen and Don of Tackless II

In April, Livia Gilstrap wrote Women and Cruising about the Interview with a Cruiser project that she recently started to ask the hundreds of questions she had as she prepared to go cruising.

Livia sends out a list of ten questions to cruisers who have cruised outside of their home country for at least two [...]

Books, Websites, Blogs, Relationships & Roles Aboard

Get Her On Board (Secrets to Sharing the Cruising Dream)

 

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 [...]

Events and Seminars

Join two-time circumnavigator Nancy Erley at the Women’s Sailing Conference

NWSA’s 9th annual Women’s Sailing Conference is only two weeks away! Come join us! It will take place Saturday June 5, 2010 at the Corinthian Yacht Club on beautiful Marblehead Harbor in Massachusetts. Nancy Erley, two-time circumnavigator, calculates that this will be her 6th year at the conference. [...]

Books, Websites, Blogs

An Admiral’s Reference Shelf

As you may know, Women and Cruising co-host Gwen Hamlin each month writes a column for Latitudes and Attitudes magazine called the Admiral’s Angle. Gwen has a group of “admirals” – women cruisers scattered around the globe who email their input to Gwen on each month’s topic. Gwen and her admirals have been doing this every month now for almost 4 years, and this month we are publishing Gwen’s 44th [...]

Events and Seminars

See you at the Women’s Sailing Conference June 5, 2010 in Marblehead, MA!

Would you like to improve your sailing skills while meeting lots of cool women and having FUN?

Sign up for NWSA’s 9th annual Women’s Sailing Conference, a Take the Helm® event!

It will take place Saturday June 5, 2010 at the Corinthian Yacht Club on beautiful Marblehead Harbor in Massachusetts. (I will be there!)

It’s a [...]

Events and Seminars

7 more good reasons to join us at Strictly Sail Pacific, April 15-18, 2010

We’ve already announced here on the blog that Pam and I will giving two free Women and Cruising seminars at the Strictly Sail Pacific Boat Show, at Jack London Square in Oakland, California on April 16 and 17.

And Amanda Swan Neal has invited you all to the seminars she will be [...]

Events and Seminars

Amanda Neal’s April Seminars on Offshore Cruising

I’d like to invite you to two opportunities, this April, for you to learn the practical and inspirational aspects of offshore cruising.

1. Mahina Offshore Cruising Seminars 2010

April 3:  Seattle
April 17: Oakland, during the Strictly Sail Pacific Boat Show

Realize your dream of setting sail aboard your own boat to see the world in [...]

Women and Cruising Seminar

Join Women and Cruising at Strictly Sail Pacific – April 16-17, 2010

Pam Wall and I are going to do two free Women and Cruising seminars at the Strictly Sail Pacific Boat Show on April 16 and 17, 2010.

It’s going to be great fun so come join us!

Strictly Sail Pacific is a great show. It’s held at Jack London Square in Oakland, CA. There [...]

Books, Websites, Blogs

Read the new Admiral’s Angle: My Bookshelf, A Mental Voyage

If you are following my Admiral’s Angle columns here on Women and Cruising and if you love books, you will want to catch #42 – My Bookshelf, A Mental Voyage.

This is Part One of three-part series on books aboard.  Part Two will be about Cruising Sagas recommended by the Admirals, and [...]