Blog » Admirals angle http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog Women cruisers share their experiences, info and news Mon, 23 Oct 2017 21:55:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Diving for Cruisers – Admirals’ Angle Collection Updated http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2010/08/diving-for-cruisers-admirals-angle-collection-updated/ http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2010/08/diving-for-cruisers-admirals-angle-collection-updated/#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:38:41 +0000 http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2010/08/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 ...Read more]]> gwen setting up whaler 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 have contributed photos from around the world!

Diving In: Preparation & Gear

There are two basic reasons cruisers jump over the side: because they want to or because they have to.

The want-to department consists of snorkeling and scuba diving and hunting for seafood to spear or collect, but also …

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Water, Water Everywhere

It’s an inescapable fact of cruising: we live surrounded by water. Often deep water.

A landlubber might assume that everyone who chooses the cruising lifestyle has a natural affinity for water…

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]]> http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2010/08/diving-for-cruisers-admirals-angle-collection-updated/feed/ 0 An Admiral’s Reference Shelf http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2010/05/an-admirals-reference-shelf/ http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2010/05/an-admirals-reference-shelf/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 01:45:55 +0000 http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2010/05/an-admirals-reference-shelf/ Read more]]> Gwen Hamlin aboard 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 column!

We maintain an archive of all the past columns on our website. We publish them here one month after they appear in Latitudes and Attitudes. If you haven’t checked out this part of our website you should!

Gwen and her far-flung group of cruising women have discussed everything from how they got started cruising to why they do it, plus all those practical issues like outfitting and emergency skills and maintenance and guests aboard and laundry and fitness and singlehanding and communications and finances and …. (44 topics so far…!)

For the last three months, the admirals have been discussing their bookshelves – the books that merit precious room aboard their boats.

They are wrapping up this series this month as they talk about the reference books they carry aboard – their favorite references for seamanship, voyaging, weather, heavy weather sailing, maintenance,  etc.

Check out the column – #44 – Admiral’s Reference Shelf – and then let us know if we have missed any of your favorite reference books.

Perhaps you have even typed up a list of your own Ship’s Library. If you would like to share it with other cruisers, send it to us or send us a link to it on your website or blog and we will let Women and Cruising readers know about it.

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]]> http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2010/05/an-admirals-reference-shelf/feed/ 0 Admirals Angle: Taking Passions Cruising http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2010/01/new-admirals-angle-take-passions-cruising/ http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2010/01/new-admirals-angle-take-passions-cruising/#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:30:00 +0000 http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2010/01/new-admirals-angle-take-passions-cruising/ Read more]]> We’ve just posted Admiral’s Angle column #41 to the Women and Cruising site, Taking Passions Cruising:

For me, scuba diving was a long-standing passion. “A land lubber might be forgiven for thinking that when we commit to the cruising life our main and overriding passion is for sailing.

Very often this is true, of course, but we are not one-dimensional creatures. We all have other interests, other passions — some long-standing and others we’ve never had time for before. Some will be the reason we go cruising in the first place, while others will be new discoveries. Many will fit easily with the cruising life-style; but others may take a little adaptive thinking.

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Gwen Hamlin has been writing this column monthly for Latitudes and Attitudes magazine since September of 2006. Gwen has a group of women cruisers (Admirals) that ...Read more]]> Gwen HamlinDid you know that you can read all 36 (and counting!) columns of Admiral’s Angle on the Women and Cruising site?

Gwen Hamlin has been writing this column monthly for Latitudes and Attitudes magazine since September of 2006. Gwen has a group of women cruisers (Admirals) that she draws upon to discuss all sorts of topics that interest women cruisers. All past columns of Admiral’s Angle are now here on the Women and Cruising website, and they are searchable.

By the way, the Admiral’s Angle column had its start in our Women and Cruising seminars that we offer at boat shows. Gwen first joined Pam Wall and me for a Women and Cruising seminar at the Miami Boat Show in 2006. We always leave these seminars JAZZED, and in that post-seminar high, Gwen ran into Bob Bitchin, founder of Latitudes and Attitudes Magazine.

Gwen said “Gee, Bob, you should have a column in Lats and Atts about women and cruising issues.”

“Great”, Bob answered, “So write it.”

And that was how Admiral’s Angle got started 3 years ago.

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]]> http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2009/08/admirals-angle-is-on-women-and-cruising/feed/ 0 How Yvonne Chooses Where We Cruise http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2009/06/how-we-choose-where-we-cruise-part-3/ http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2009/06/how-we-choose-where-we-cruise-part-3/#comments Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:03:01 +0000 http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2009/06/how-we-choose-where-we-cruise-part-3/ 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:

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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:

Bernie and Yvonne Katchor, Australia 31 “Let me tell you how Yvonne chooses how we cruise. May I add here she has never taken me to a place I have not immensely enjoyed in the last 45 years of cruising.

We were heading from Tobago to Venezuela and as we came out into the bumpy ocean she cried, “The bloody wind is on the nose again”.  She changed course and when I awakened to a rollicking sail we were heading North to a new destination.”

- Bernie Katchor, s/v Australia 31

(Bernie’s wife Yvonne is one of the Admirals that contribute to Gwen’s monthly Admiral’s Angle column in Latitudes and Attitudes magazine.)012 fish dorado 54 inches fish everyday on N coast

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]]> http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2009/06/how-we-choose-where-we-cruise-part-3/feed/ 0 How We Choose Where We Cruise, Part 2 http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2009/05/how-we-choose-where-we-cruise/ http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2009/05/how-we-choose-where-we-cruise/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 19:42:06 +0000 http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2009/05/how-we-choose-where-we-cruise/ 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 ...Read more]]> Admiral's Angle-2sm 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.

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