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Category: Books, Websites & BlogsBooks, Websites & Blogs, Cruising Life
In their new book Cruising conversations with a daring duo! Corinne and Chuck Kanter delve through their 30+ years of sailing experience, especially their 15 years as full-time liveaboards. In this memoir, they share their learning experiences, the wonderful people they met, and the joys of the lifestyle outside the proverbial box. The following excerpts are [...] Books, Websites & Blogs, Fears and Worries
I’m a sucker for a well-told tale, and Swept: Love With a Chance of Drowning by Torre DeRoche is just that. Decades ago, sailing sagas were told by weathered men sailing solo on distant seas; today they are told by the women convinced to go along. Not unlike Janna Cawrse Esarey’s Motion of the Ocean, Swept [...] Books, Websites & Blogs
In a foreword to her new book — Bull Canyon: A Boat Builder, A Writer and other Wildlife – Lin Pardey asks fans of her sailing adventures aboard Seraffyn to hang in with her through this transition book, the story of Lin and husband Larry’s four years ashore during construction of their new [...] Books, Websites & Blogs
This is an excellent book and very different from Jimmy Cornell’s more well-known books World Cruising Routes and World Cruising Destinations. A Passion for the Sea is a bit hard to describe because the book is packed with stories, advice and tips from Cornell’s lifetime of cruising. Not only does the author draw [...] Books, Websites & Blogs, Fears and Worries
 Lin Pardey interviews 11 cruising couples fresh from their first major crossing – and finds out what they worried about and what they learned. We have divided this article in 2 parts. Part 1 describes worries about bad weather and gear failures. Here, in part 2, Lin Pardey writes about other common worries as well as suggestions for those preparing to set [...] Books, Websites & Blogs, NEWS
 Members of the Women & Cruising community receive 20% off Managing the Waterway cruising guides, nautical books, and electronic charts. Orders must be placed through their website: www.managingthewaterway.com. Simply cut-and-paste the following 20% off voucher code on the order page when prompted, then hit “recalculate.” 14WOMENCR222611 This code is good for any purchase , including [...] Books, Websites & Blogs, Fears and Worries
 In this chapter from “Capable Cruiser”, Lin Pardey asked 11 pairs of cruisers to share their thoughts on predeparture worries, the gear that worked, failures that occurred, and thoughts they wanted to share with those waiting to set sail. We are publishing this chapter in 2 parts. Part 2 will appear next [...] Books, Websites & Blogs, Events and Seminars
For the first time in four years, the two voyagers who have been dubbed “The Enablers” will be returning to the United States this March to introduce Lin’s long-awaited book, Bull Canyon—A Boatbuilder, a Writer and Other Wildlife. The Pardeys will be speaking at: the Northwest Maritime Center Spring Symposium in Port Townsend, Washington; Books, Websites & Blogs
 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
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 [...] Books, Websites & Blogs
 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
 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 [...] |
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