News from Women and Cruising contributors
January 15th, 2010 - by Kathy Parsons
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 by email or Skype. Gwen and I often discuss and edit her Admiral’s Angle column while chatting via Skype. …Read more
News from Women and Cruising contributors
November 22nd, 2009 - by Pam Wall
Throughout the month of November both Blue Water Sailing Magazine and The Cruising Compass is focusing on Fitting Out For World Cruising.
The Cruising Compass interviewed Pam Wall, Outfitting Manager for West Marine. Pam is an accomplished sailor who has sailed around the world with her husband, Andy of Andrew Wall Rigging, and their young children. Pam and Andy have become Fort Lauderdale’s resident expert for all cruisers, motor or sail.
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News from Women and Cruising contributors
September 21st, 2009 - by Marcie Lynn
We asked Marcie …
How are you doing with your French in French Polynesia?
I took French in high school and university and I was really looking forward to speaking French again in French Polynesia.
I got out my refresher books and studied mostly every day from Juan Fernandez, Chile to our arrival in the Iles Gambier.
I walked into the Gendarmerie in Mangareva and without hesitation, began speaking Sprench and Franglish!
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News from Women and Cruising contributors
June 28th, 2009 - by Kathy Parsons
Gwen Hamlin devoted her April and May 2009 Admiral’s Angle columns to “How We Choose Where We Cruise”. Here the husband of one of the Admirals throws in his two cents:
“Let me tell you how Yvonne chooses how we cruise …Read more
News from Women and Cruising contributors
May 30th, 2009 - by Kathy Parsons

Suzanne Giesemann sent in the following news a little over a week ago.
I knew she had a new book coming out (this one has nothing to do with sailing, yet it sounds very interesting) and I was hoping she might mention something about it.
Suzanne writes: …Read more
News from Women and Cruising contributors
May 30th, 2009 - by Kathy Parsons
Cruiser Ellen Sanpere has been a terrific champion of volunteering as you cruise. She started the “Volunteering” section on the Women and Cruising Resources page. She worked with Fundamigos in Venezuela for a number of seasons. Now that she is hanging around in the Virgin Islands, she has been giving of her time and talents to a number of causes on St Croix. …Read more
News from Women and Cruising contributors
May 20th, 2009 - by Gwen Hamlin
You can now read the the current installment of my Admiral’s Angle column in Latitudes & Attitudes Magazine — How We Choose Where We Cruise, Part Two – in the online version of the May 2009 issue of Latitudes and Attitudes.
To read Part One of How We Choose Where We Cruise, or any previous issue, you can go to the Lats & Atts Archives or the Admiral’s Angle section of the Women and Cruising website.
News from Women and Cruising contributors
May 18th, 2009 - by Kathy Parsons
We’d like to post news from Women and Cruising contributors, so here is our first which was sent by Marcie Lynn of s/v Nine of Cups:
"The passage from Chile to Iles Gambier, French Polynesia was, for the most part, pretty benign and without a doubt, the slowest passage in our sailing history. …Read more