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Category: NEWSBooks, 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; Events and Seminars
 Please join us for a lively interactive learning session about everyone’s favorite topic: anchoring. Don’t be intimidated by anchoring bullies. Here are the details: Education for those long winter months – Seven Seas University Presents: Happy Hooking – the Art of Anchoring with Captains Daria & Alex Blackwell ASK YOUR QUESTIONS, Women and Cruising Seminar
The Women and Cruising Team — Kathy Parsons, Pam Wall & Gwen Hamlin — is going online LIVE for our first ever Women & Cruising Webinar, through the auspices of Seven Seas U, the online seminar project of SSCA (Seven Seas Cruising Association.) The date is January 19 at [...] Events and Seminars
 Pam Wall, one of Women and Cruising‘s founders, is presenting another webinar for Seven Seas University on Thursday, December 9 at 8PM Eastern Time. Pam says: “These popular webinar presentations by Seven Seas Cruising Association are terrific because you can watch them from the comfort of your home or main saloon! All you [...] Events and Seminars
 Did you ever think that one day you would be saying: “Gee, I wish I knew more about diesel engines – and was competent with general engine maintenance and emergency repairs.” …? Who would have thought it?! But I certainly feel more competent and comfortable aboard as I have learned how to change oil, filters, impellers, [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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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