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		<title>Bev Feiges: The best about living aboard Cloverleaf</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p class="note">Bev Feiges, aboard <span class="boat_name">Cloverleaf</span>, a 61-foot custom Krogen motoryacht, shares a list of some things she wouldn&#8217;t want to live without, and some pictures of great things about living aboard.</p>
Lets start with the great things about living aboard.
Mostly it&#8217;s about the people you meet.
<p>Everyone will tell you that.</p>






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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="note">Bev Feiges, aboard <span class="boat_name">Cloverleaf</span>, a 61-foot custom Krogen motoryacht, shares a list of some things she wouldn&#8217;t want to live without, and some pictures of great things about living aboard.</p>
<h4>Lets start with the great things about living aboard.</h4>
<h5 class="color-pink">Mostly it&#8217;s about the people you meet.</h5>
<p>Everyone will tell you that.</p>
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<td class="caption" style="text-align: center;" valign="top">Evening dinner in the cockpit. Mixed bag of friends from sailboats and motorboats, some Americans, some Israeli, taken in Turkey. One of those magical evenings we just can&#8217;t recapture on land.</td>
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<p>For us, with a boat large enough to accommodate a crowd, we love having groups aboard for long visits, usually with some food and drink thrown in.<br /> We can have people who were strangers to us earlier in the day, or ones we&#8217;ve known and continue to run into over the years, but they all have unique stories to tell. What better form of entertainment?<span id="more-3967"></span></p>
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<p>Sometimes the parties ashore are arranged by other groups.</p>
<p>This is an annual Pirate Party with the Eastern Med. Yacht Rally (E.M.Y.R.).</p>
<p>We still keep in touch with Ted and Tchiko by e-mail as they continue to cruise Turkey on their Grand Banks trawler.</p>
<h5 class="color-pink">We love our big tables and our apartment-like galley</h5>
<p>- Our big galley table makes dinner for 6 to 8 possible right there in the galley, and keeps it simple.</p>
<p>- Our back porch table pulls apart and an additional piece flips up enlarges the table to seat 8 people. It has been worth its weight in gold, and cost peanuts.</p>
<p>- Our table in the cockpit (see top picture) will also expand to seat 8.</p>
<p>- Occasionally we pull out all the stops and an elegant pot luck is spread out in the main salon.</p>
<p>- Some of the most fun occurs in the process of preparing the food. Having a really apartment like galley makes it possible for lots of hands.</p>
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<td class="caption" style="text-align: center;" valign="top">Other things we have added to the boat just for pleasure include a ‘tube” for giving the grandkids a thrill ride.</td>
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<h5 class="color-pink">My book case</h5>
<p>I also am so glad we found the space to put in a book case, so my treasure trove of books can be there to lure me into the joys they have to offer, instead of being buried in a drawer and often forgotten.</p>
<h5 class="color-pink">The TV satellite dish, Sirius Radio, and my digital camera</h5>
<p>Among the toys we have bought for ourselves that we really truly use a lot are the TV satellite dish, Sirius Radio, and my digital camera.</p>
<p>Taking those pictures of where you have been, what you did, and the people you did them with, allows you to relive those moments and recapture the joys forever.</p>
<p>Most of my pictures are of flowers and flower gardens, and any time my computer is turned on and not being used, it displays constantly changing scenes from my album called Flowers.</p>
<h5 class="color-pink">The ancient sites we visited in the Med</h5>
<p>The wonders that are scattered all over Turkey, so many, they may seem like your own private ruins.</p>
<p><img style="border-width: 0px; display: inline;" alt="" src="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/BevFeiges-LivingAboard-12.jpg" width="450" height="320" /></p>
<p>This is Aphrodesias, well off the usual tourist route, but close to many of the major marinas.</p>
<h5 class="color-pink">The beautiful scenes</h5>
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<td class="caption" style="text-align: center;" valign="top">Could anything be more inviting<br /> than this beach scene in Turkey?</td>
<td class="caption" style="text-align: center;" valign="top">No lack of beauty<br /> in the Bahamas either</td>
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<h4>Finally, I wouldn&#8217;t want to leave home without all my navigational tools.</h4>
<p><img style="margin-right: 10px; display: block; border-width: 0px;" alt="" src="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/BevFeiges-LivingAboard-8.jpg" width="450" height="308" /></p>
<p>I can sit very comfortably for hours at end in my Stidd Chair, and within easy reach is the autopilot, which does 99 per cent of my work, my VHF, the old radar, soon to have a big brother broadband radar that should not lose sight of boats as they actually get within striking distance, a separate depth sounder, windshield washers and wipers, weather station, stabilizer controls, engine displays, and a couple of chart plotters. The smaller, and very much out of date Simrad chart plotter will be replaced by a newer one that will be able to read the broad band radar.</p>
<p>You have to be the one at the helm to appreciate how exciting all this &#8220;stuff&#8221; can be, and we are constantly carrying the message to women, that they should be the ones at the helm, just pushing the little buttons around, and let macho man make the heroic leaps to the dock, or try to keep his hands from being mangled in anchoring.</p>
<p>Every few years it seems we are adding or subtracting something, and we are always pleased with the changes because there are always so many improvements in the newer equipment. The framework for the equipment is just black formica, so Dave can shift things around with only a small effort on his part!</p>
<p>Dave and Bev Feiges<br /> Aboard <span class="boat_name">Cloverleaf</span><br /> Abaco, Bahamas</p>
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<h5>About Bev Feiges</h5>
<p><img class="pic-left" style="display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="Bev Feiges" alt="Bev Feiges" src="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/BevFeiges-2.jpg" width="200" height="150" />After 21 years on a Cal-46-3 sailboat, Bev and her husband moved aboard <span class="boat_name">Cloverleaf</span>, their second cruising boat, a 61-foot custom Krogen motoryacht.</p>
<p>Self-described &#8220;coastal cruisers&#8221;, they have traveled the eastern seaboard from Canada to Florida, much of the Caribbean, and with a little help from Dockwise Yacht Transport, much of the Med, from the Balearics to Turkey, south along the coast to Egypt, through the Suez Canal, as far south as Abu Tieg.</p>
<p>You can read Bev&#8217;s blog, &#8220;<span class="publication">Cruising with Cloverleaf</span>&#8220;, at <a href="http://www.feiges.blogspot.com" target="_blank">www.feiges.blogspot.com</a>.</p>
<p>Bev is also a contributor to Gwen Hamlin&#8217;s <a href="http://www.womenandcruising.com/admirals-angle/" target="_blank">&#8220;Admiral&#8217;s Angle&#8221; column</a>.</p>
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<h6>Read also on this website</h6>
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<li class="note"><a href="http://www.womenandcruising.com/about-cruising.htm" target="_blank">What Do Women Like Most about Cruising&#8230;15 Women Speak</a></li>
<li class="note"><a href="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2011/02/gardening-for-cruisers/" target="_blank">Gardening for cruisers</a>, by Bev Feiges</li>
<li class="note"><a href="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2011/01/handholds-handholds-handholds/" target="_blank">Handholds, handholds, handholds</a>, by Bev Feiges</li>
<li class="note"><a href="http://womenandcruising.com/galley-12-refits.htm#BevFeiges" target="_blank">Bev&#8217;s contribution to our feature article &#8220;Refitting the Galley: 12 Experiences&#8221;</a></li>
<li class="note"><a href="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2009/11/bev-makes-her-case-for-an-electric-galley-aboard/" target="_blank">Bev Feiges makes her case for an electric galley aboard</a></li>
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<h6>More information (external links)</h6>
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<li class="note">Bev and Dave Feiges&#8217;s blog: &#8220;<a href="http://www.feiges.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Cruising with Cloverleaf</a>&#8220;<br /> With 60 years of boating experience, Bev and Dave Feiges have seen it all. From racing inland lake scows, to cruising and living aboard sailboats and trawlers for the past 30 years, they have developed opinions on almost every aspect of life on the water, especially with an eye toward the needs of older boaters</li>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>What do you like best about cruising and living aboard? What items do you really appreciate aboard your boat?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Let us know.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Email <a href="mailto:kathy@forcruisers.com">kathy@forcruisers.com</a> or leave a comment below.</p>
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		<title>Caught like a fish – hook, line and sinker: Lisa reflects on 5 years cruising aboard a trawler</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>For the last five-plus years, I’ve been living almost exclusively on a boat.</p>
<p>My husband, Jim, and I sold our home and somewhat naively hit the water running. Not exactly sure what we were running from and most definitely in the dark about how this change would alter our life’s predetermined path.</p>
<p>We retired rather early from ...<a href="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2010/12/caught-like-a-fish-%e2%80%93-hook-line-and-sinker/"><strong>Read more</strong></a>]]></description>
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<p>For the last five-plus years, I’ve been living almost exclusively on a boat.</p>
<p>My husband, Jim, and I sold our home and somewhat naively hit the water running. Not exactly sure what we were running from and most definitely in the dark about how this change would alter our life’s predetermined path.</p>
<p>We retired rather early from our professional lives, mine as an art director/designer and Jim’s as a financial advisor. We knew that we wanted to travel and see more of the U.S. and the world; we dreamed of adventure; we craved anything to do with boating and we knew we wanted to do all of the above with each other. So, we combined these “wants” into one jointly shared plan – by hopping aboard our boat, <span class="boat_name">Kismet</span>, a 40-foot <em>(at the time, Silverton Convertible)</em>, and shoving away from the dock for an adventure of a lifetime.</p>
<h5 class="color-brown-light">What we found out was that it really wasn’t quite as easy as it initially sounded; we were innocent in our assumptions and planning.</h5>
<p><span id="more-3750"></span>It was a big change in our lives and there was a big impact and adjustment, mentally.</p>
<p>Here I was packing up all of our worldly possessions into a 15-x 20-foot storage unit to go live on a less than 800-sq-ft boat. What was I thinking? How could I possibly adjust to this very different lifestyle?</p>
<p>I should be spending my retirement years having long afternoon lunches in quaint little restaurants with my various hometown friends or whiling away the time looking for cute shoes and art/craft supplies. My pre-boating idea and dream <em>(before we heard about the Great Loop trip and available long-distance cruising routes)</em> was to delve into oil painting, digging up all those recipes I’ve saved and cooking fantastic meals for Jim, taking classes and learning web design.</p>
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<td valign="top"><img style="margin: 0px; display: block; border-width: 0px;" title="The Favors spent the winter at a B&amp;B in Seattle, Washington while their Fathom trawler was being built. This photo was taken just minutes after the boat was lowered into the water." src="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/LisaFavors-4.jpg" alt="The Favors spent the winter at a B&amp;B in Seattle, Washington while their Fathom trawler was being built. This photo was taken just minutes after the boat was lowered into the water." width="229" height="350" /></td>
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<td class="caption" style="text-align: center;" valign="top">The Favors spent the winter at a B&amp;B in Seattle, Washington while their Fathom trawler was being built. This photo was taken just minutes after the boat was lowered into the water.</td>
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<h5 class="color-brown-light">Before I knew it, I was caught like a fish – hook, line and sinker.</h5>
<p>Our original plan was to take a year to do the Great Loop <em>(a boat trip which circumnavigates the Eastern United States from the heartland rivers to the North Atlantic seaboard and Great Lakes)</em> but 12 months quickly turned into 60 and before I knew it, I was caught like a fish – hook, line and sinker.</p>
<p>Originally, a year sounded like an eternity to me. I wonder what I would have thought back then if someone had told me that one-year would stretch into almost six.</p>
<p>I am writing this article as I drive north up the Florida ICW from Key West in our truck <em>(which is packed to the gills with all our boat belongings)</em> while Jim helps the new owner <em>(of our most recent <span class="boat_name">Kismet</span>, a 40-foot Fathom trawler)</em> move the boat North, up Florida’s east coast.</p>
<p>I am finding myself with lots of time to reflect on the twists and turns in our lives since we left our homeport of Charlevoix, Michigan in the fall of 2005. I also had lots of time to think about how this path, the one less traveled, brought us to this point and what and who ended up being most important to me along the way.</p>
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<h5 class="color-brown-light">I learned a lot about myself.</h5>
<p>What I know for sure, without hesitation, is that I have fresh and salt water coursing through my veins, kind of a watered down version of blood with tiny little boats running throughout.</p>
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<td valign="top"><img style="margin: 0px; display: block; border-width: 0px;" title="As the Favors headed south on the river system for the second time Lisa was already very comfortable catching and throwing lines and securing the boat during the locking through process. This shot is taken in a lock on the Illinois River close to Ottawa, Illinois." src="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/LisaFavors-5.jpg" alt="As the Favors headed south on the river system for the second time Lisa was already very comfortable catching and throwing lines and securing the boat during the locking through process. This shot is taken in a lock on the Illinois River close to Ottawa, Illinois." width="300" height="212" /></td>
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<td class="caption" style="text-align: center;" valign="top">As the Favors headed south on the river system for the second time Lisa was already very comfortable catching and throwing lines and securing the boat during the locking through process. This shot is taken in a lock on the Illinois River close to Ottawa, Illinois.</td>
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<p>I love the smell, the look, and the rhythm of the blue/green stuff, whether thick and murky, light and foamy or crystal clear.</p>
<p>I love to wander through, little, out of the way marina docks to look at old boats and smell the aroma of water, decaying fish and old damp wood. I always wonder what ports these boats have seen and who were the adventurous captains and crew who navigated them there.</p>
<p>Weirdly, I’m also somewhat fascinated by what horrors they may have encountered and, more importantly, what pleasures have made the owners lives worthwhile.</p>
<p>This thought in turn makes me wonder if I’ve done enough myself to see our corner of the world by boat and I always come up feeling like I could do more and then I start thinking how this water, adventure thing is so addictive and maybe even seen as a sickness by a non-water in the vein type person.</p>
<p>I can only wonder about what my “land” girlfriends think about my sickness as they don’t seem too curious about the particulars and almost totally avoid hearing about them, so I try to just keep it to myself – kind of like hiding a bad, disgusting, habit.</p>
<h5 class="color-brown-light">Last night I met a woman sailor in Melbourne, Florida.</h5>
<p>Debbie was restoring the ornate wood trim on her sailboat. I had arrived on the dock a little early to help the crew on Kismet dock. We talked a bit and I found out that she and her husband, who are originally from Connecticut, had been living aboard their boat for four years in Florida.</p>
<p>She had the relaxed look I know so well. I could identify with her. As we talked, I couldn’t help but inhale the salty, musty aroma that surrounded the little harbor. After just a few minutes chatting, I knew she shared the same condition as I and, finding myself suddenly in-between boats, I envied her spot at the dock. She would not judge or dismiss me as a crazy, lazy vagabond, she would understand.</p>
<h5 class="color-brown-light">This encounter also got me to thinking about all the other women cruisers I’ve met over the years.</h5>
<p>They were all varied in their strengths and weaknesses. Some were tenuous and cautious and just as many, if not more, where strong and determined. Most all ended up in the same place, true long-distance cruisers. I learned things from these women, things I may never have encountered in my life if I had not left the warm circle of my non-adventurous women friends.</p>
<p>I feel strongly that women need to share their experiences with other women about boating. We have some great stories to tell. My life is greatly enriched by the daring women boaters I’ve met over the years. There is something to be said about finding other human beings who share a similar passion. As you probably have already surmised – for me it’s boating.</p>
<h6>Carol Gordon</h6>
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<p>I had the great pleasure of meeting Carol Gordon at dock in Burnham Harbor, Chicago, Illinois. We had just started out on our first Loop trip and Carol was the first Looper we’d met.</p>
<p>Carol, a captain, is the kind of woman boater I greatly admire. Smart, friendly, and VERY capable, she knew the insides and outsides of her boat intimately.</p>
<p>I also have to say that Jim and I first got to experience the famous “southern hospitality” while visiting Carol and her husband, Mike, at their hometown and port of Fairhope, Alabama.</p>
<h6>Cyndi Perkins</h6>
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<p>Another woman boater who left a lasting impression is Cyndi Perkins, a sailor along with her husband Scott. We met them on our first Loop trip and spent a few days with them in Tarpon Springs. They work in Houghton, Michigan in the summer <em>(Scott is the harbormaster – Cyndi is a freelance writer)</em>, and sail in the winter months, around Florida and the Keys.</p>
<p>Cyndi can be best described as earthy, sunny and incredibly friendly.</p>
<p>I love her fun pigtails and I admire her for her ability to connect with the simple natural beauties found along the water routes.</p>
<p><em>(Both women are contributors in our recently published book <span class="publication">Women On Board Cruising</span>, Favors Ventures, LLC. They are just two of 25 women who love to share their boating stories in this book – see below.)</em></p>
<h5 class="color-brown-light">I guess you could say that one of the real benefits of long-distance cruising is the chance to build friendship with people from all over the world.</h5>
<p>My relationship base with women, boater friends, has grown so much that wherever I travel, either by boat or land, I seem to have a ready opportunity to hook up with one or more at their home towns or homeports all over the eastern half of the United States. Many of them have ready invitations to visit us on our new “turf” when we’re not off boating.</p>
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<td><strong><em>Thinking about the women I’ve met while cruising brought me to an observation I’ve had about the seemingly vast community of male boaters. </em></strong><em>I’ve been to many marinas over the years where there were absolutely no women to be found but plenty of mostly single men, of all ages, who’ve chosen this lifestyle – permanently.</em><em> </em><em>Because we traveled almost twice around on the Great Loop route I was fortunate, most of the time, to be in the company of couples who cruise long-distance (but pretty much mainstream paths). Many times, in our side trips or trips outside the Loop, we visited marinas, especially along the coastal waters, not necessarily in the company of other Loopers; this is where my observation took shape. </em><em>The last few stopovers during this trip up Florida’s coast were at a few of these out of the way marinas, mostly off the beaten path and as I have observed over the years the majority of these marinas are, in my estimation, overstocked with testosterone.</em><em>This always gets me to wondering even more about my craziness. Where are all the women? What on earth am I doing here? Am I lacking some normal female gene?</em></td>
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<h5 class="color-brown-light">We recently came to the sober realization that we needed to feel some dirt between our toes and more face-to-face time with family and hometown friends.</h5>
<p>We also started to feel a sudden, burning, and mad desire to host a full-blown family holiday get-together. I guess I could best describe this newfound revelation we’re having this way… Just as the all consuming and passionate need overtook us, five years ago, to sell all our accumulated “stuff” and head out for parts unknown as free spirits – now, we’re starting to feel the pull as the pendulum begins its swing back. We became more aware of our need to reconnect with family, hometown friends and experience the good things about being landlocked.</p>
<p>Last April, we returned to Traverse City, Michigan and bought a house. We enjoyed unpacking our past lives’ saved memories and trinkets. Normal life feels new again from the perspective of a returning wanderer and after all we are still adventurers, we’re just away from sea for a while.</p>
<h5 class="color-brown-light">Being in-between boats is a hard place to be for someone with my “addiction.”</h5>
<p>There is a popular saying amongst boaters, “<em>the best 2 days of a boater&#8217;s life is the day they buy the boat and the day they sell the boat</em>&#8221; but, I have to say, I’m having a little problem with the “selling” part and this new void in my life.</p>
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<p>My friend Ellen, also a boater <em>(and another contributor in the book, <span class="publication">Women On Board Cruising</span>)</em> sent an email to me with “<em>congratulations and condolences</em>” when she heard of the impending sale of our boat.</p>
<p>On the eve of the last day aboard our <span class="boat_name">Kismet</span>, I felt a little melancholy. Later that night just before we dozed off, I asked Jim for a little reassurance and a glimmer of hope that this was not the end of boating for us but just a small lull. You never know what life hands to you.</p>
<p>So, until I am once again hanging over the railing of a boat, nose into the heady spray while proceeding out of a harbor with a destination and a dream – I am partly the fish out of water waiting to be rehydrated, after all the cure for my “sickness” is really just one boat purchase away…</p>
<p>© 2010 Lisa Targal Favors. All rights reserved.</p>
<p>Used with permission by Lisa Targal Favors (12/2010)</p>
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<h5>About Lisa Targal Favors</h5>
<p><img class="pic-left" style="display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="Lisa Targal Favors" src="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/LisaFavors-8.jpg" alt="Lisa Targal Favors" width="250" height="167" />Lisa, a native Michigan artist/writer/photographer, retired as Art Director/Designer at Knorr Marketing in Traverse City, MI, to take off, with her husband, Jim on a boating adventure of a lifetime – America’s Great Loop <em>(a boat trip circumnavigating the Eastern US from the heartland rivers to the North Atlantic seaboard and Great Lakes)</em>.</p>
<p>Lisa Targal Favors currently serves on the Advisory Council of <span class="organization">America’s Great Loop Cruisers’ Association</span> (AGLCA).</p>
<p>She writes <a href="http://www.boatus.com/cruising/kismet/log.asp" target="_blank">twice monthly articles for BoatUS Cruising Logs</a> and the Favors have edited and published two books, <span class="publication">Women On Board Cruising</span> and <span class="publication">When the Water Calls… We Follow</span>. They maintain a popular cruising blog: <a href="http://favorsgreatloopblog.com" target="_blank">www.favorsgreatloopblog.com</a>.</p>
<p>Lisa also sells her stock photography to boating magazines. During a recent boating lull she has been helping her son start a website hosting and design company, Tasti Media.</p>
<p>Lisa and Jim lived and worked in the Traverse City area for 20 years while raising their family. She has been houseless and cruising for the better part of the last five years with almost 20,000 miles and counting under her belt. Her passions include first and foremost – time spent with family and painting, gardening <em>(more recently – herbs on the back deck of the boat)</em> photography, and boating – of course!</p>
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<h5 class="color-brown-light">Women On Board Cruising</h5>
<p><img class="pic-left" style="display: inline; border-width: 0px;" title="Women Onboard Cruising" src="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/LisaFavors-wobc-bookcover.jpg" alt="Women Onboard Cruising" width="200" height="300" />Twenty-five seasoned women boaters including editor, and long-distance cruiser, Lisa Targal Favors of Traverse City, are sharing the trials and tribulations of life aboard in this newly released book.</p>
<p>Conceptualized, edited and published by Ms. Favors, the book is designed to inspire and inform women and their significant others who are planning on – or just considering – spending an extended period of time on the water.</p>
<p>The contributors humorously recount their very personal experiences and openly share life lessons learned about this little-known lifestyle. Several women tell their story with a rare, revealing vulnerability. Not all initially welcomed the thought of life within the confines of a boat but were cajoled by partners who had a greater desire and competence for this type of adventure.</p>
<p>From doing the “Loop” <em>(a boat trip circumnavigating the Eastern United States from the heartland rivers to the North Atlantic seaboard and Great Lakes)</em> to sailing around the world, their stories are sure to warm the hearts of male and female readers alike.</p>
<p class="note"><strong>Women On Board Cruising</strong> is available at <a href="http://www.favorsventures.com/" target="_blank">FavorsVentures.com</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615363482?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wacblog1-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0615363482" target="_blank">Amazon.com.</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wacblog1-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0615363482" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /></p>
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<h6>Read also on this website</h6>
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<li class="note"><a href="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2010/03/international-womens-day-then-and-now/" target="_blank">International Women’s Day then and now: Women rocking the world in their own Way</a>, by Michelle Elvy</li>
<li class="note"><a href="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2010/07/6-mistakes-men-make-in-sharing-their-sailing-passion/" target="_blank">6 Mistakes men make in sharing their sailing passion (Lessons I learned the hard way)</a>, by Nick O&#8217;Kelly</li>
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<h6>More information (external links)</h6>
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<li class="note"><span class="publication">Women On Board Cruising</span> is available at <a href="http://www.favorsventures.com/" target="_blank">FavorsVentures.com</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615363482?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wacblog1-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0615363482" target="_blank">Amazon.com.</a><img style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wacblog1-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0615363482" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /></li>
<li class="note"><a href="http://www.favorsgreatloopblog.com" target="_blank">The Favors&#8217; cruising blog</a></li>
<li class="note"><a href="http://www.boatus.com/cruising/kismet/log.asp" target="_blank">Boat US Articles by Jim &amp; Lisa Favors</a></li>
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<p>Bev Feiges wrote the following for us after reading <a href="http://www.womenandcruising.com/galley-18-advice.htm" target="_blank">Galley Advice from 18 Cruising Women</a> on the Women and Cruising website. In that article, we asked 18 cruising women to describe their galley for us, and tell us what they considered essential aboard. Although several of the 18 women participating in our article ...<a href="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/2009/11/bev-makes-her-case-for-an-electric-galley-aboard/"><strong>Read more</strong></a>]]></description>
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<p>Bev Feiges wrote the following for us after reading <a href="http://www.womenandcruising.com/galley-18-advice.htm" target="_blank">Galley Advice from 18 Cruising Women</a> on the Women and Cruising website. In that article, we asked 18 cruising women to describe their galley for us, and tell us what they considered essential aboard. Although several of the 18 women participating in our article have generators aboard, and a number have some electrical appliances, none have a truly “electrical galley” as Bev does aboard her power boat. Thanks, Bev, for sharing your experience with us. – Kathy Parsons</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/bevdavecloverleaf.jpg"><img style="display: inline; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border-width: 0px;" title="Bev and Dave of Cloverleaf" alt="Bev and Dave of Cloverleaf" src="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/bevdavecloverleaf_thumb.jpg" width="260" height="212" align="right" border="0" /></a>I just read most of the interviews of the 18 women and their galleys, and I was so surprised not to hear one person, including the woman on the 68 foot motor boat, speak up for an electric galley, or having a generator. You may not want to hear the other side of the story, but I feel someone should make the case.</p>
<p><span id="more-851"></span>We started our cruising life aboard my parent&#8217;s sports fish, cruising, and fishing the Florida Keys, and the Bahamas. I can&#8217;t think of a boat of this type that isn&#8217;t equipped with a generator, because they will have freezers and refrigeration, (necessary to keep the bait and the fish you are going to bring home with you) and in those climates, where you spend your time in marinas, even air conditioning is essential.</p>
<p>We would get to the marina, fuel up &#8211; they burn a lot of fuel- go to the dock and plug in, so we could turn the generator off, and also connect the hose, since the whole boat was scrubbed down every night. Being in a marina in the tropics was usually hot and buggy, so the air conditioning was also turned on, and we ate, and slept in comfort.</p>
<p>This certainly had its impact on our want list when we finally decided to buy our first cruising sail boat in 1977. We knew we wanted air conditioning, which would necessitate a generator, we knew we wanted a freezer, (freezing food is my husband’s business), and with a family of five kids, I didn&#8217;t want to have to eat canned foods while sitting in remote anchorages, with no grocery around.</p>
<p>We bought a Cal-46-3, and it came with all these things. It had a microwave, a propane gimbaled stove, a single sink with a large stainless drainboard, a combination chest-type frig and freezer. All of this fitted into the passageway leading to our back cabin. No worry about being thrown anyplace. We immediately put a port above the sink, so we could pass food up to someone sitting in the cockpit, and dirty dishes could be passed down to the man at the sink. Shortly thereafter, we made a separate freezer, twice the size of the original.</p>
<p>In 1989 we brought the boat back from the Caribbean to Florida, and &#8220;geriatricized&#8221; her. Included in the changes was removing the old microwave, which took up all the space to the left of the sink, and the gimbaled stove, which burned the bottom of everything baked in the oven before it would bake the top half, and was impossible to clean behind. Instead, we put in a two burner electric cooktop, gaining all the space below for a garbage pail cupboard and a tray cupboard and a drawer for utensils. Above the burners we put a combination microwave/convection oven, and where the old microwave was I gained another cupboard and a lot more counter space.</p>
<p>That galley worked great, and we never missed searching for, and lugging back propane bottles, in out of the way places. This worked for the next ten years, and we repeated the formula, when we outfitted our much smaller live-in horse trailer, except we went back to propane for the cook top, since everything, including the generator and refrigerator ran off propane. But then we had two very large bottles, that we drove to the fill up places.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/CloverleafinTurkey.jpg"><img style="display: inline; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border-width: 0px;" title="Cloverleaf - a 60 foot motor boat" alt="Cloverleaf - a 60 foot motor boat" src="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/CloverleafinTurkey_thumb.jpg" width="260" height="204" align="right" border="0" /></a> When we bought our second boat, a 60 foot motor boat, it came with household appliances from Sears, stove, microwave/convection oven, toaster oven that can bake or broil, dishwasher,  trash compactor, and disposal, and of course, they were all electric.</p>
<p>We have a large refrigerator/freezer, (16 cu. ft.) in the galley, and another freezer in the saloon, (6 cu. ft.), where the former owner had an ice maker and a compartment he hoped would stay at freezing from the spill over. The idea didn&#8217;t work; we turned it into a total freezer.</p>
<p>Because of our inverter, we can run everything except the stove, one appliance at a time, and if we don&#8217;t want to start the generator to use the cooktop, we have a single electric plate, that Dave says someday he will mount in one of the four burners on the stove top, since I never use all four. It&#8217;s against my work ethic.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/cloverleafgalley1.jpg"><img style="display: inline; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border-width: 0px;" title="Cloverleaf's galley" alt="Cloverleaf's galley" src="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/cloverleafgalley1_thumb.jpg" width="260" height="204" align="right" border="0" /></a>All the refrigeration runs off the batteries, and only consumes about 100 amps a day. We are able to run all of this, along with all the other electrical items we are used to having in a our homes ashore, by running the generator between two and three hours a day. We spend about 95 percent of our time at anchor.</p>
<p>Have we had trouble keeping it all going? Like everything in the cruising life, if you have the skills to &#8220;fix&#8221; things, there is no problem. In 32 years of cruising, we had two days without the generator in our first year, and half a day with the second boat.</p>
<p>For Dave, who never really liked walking beaches, looking for shells, fixing things was his passion. Once he said to me, after weeks of nothing going wrong, &#8220;If something doesn&#8217;t break pretty soon, I&#8217;m going to be bored to death.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/cloverleafgalley2.jpg"><img style="display: inline; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; border-width: 0px;" title="Our fridge and freezer are designed for people who live in the mountains off the grid" alt="Our fridge and freezer are designed for people who live in the mountains off the grid" src="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/cloverleafgalley2_thumb.jpg" width="260" height="204" align="left" border="0" /></a>Our galley, note the size of the fridge and freezer, designed for people who live in the mountains off the grid. On the other side of the galley you can&#8217;t see, is a table and L shaped settee, where we can easily sit six, and we have crowded in 8. We can sit 8 to ten in the salon, where the table pictured flips open to seat 8 to 10, and on the back deck is another table that nicely seats six. We are equipped for lots of entertaining, and we do it.</p>
<p>So please, don&#8217;t scare every would be cruiser into thinking they must give up life as they know it, if they can afford to do otherwise.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/cloverleaftable.jpg"><img style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;" title="We can sit 8 to ten in the salon, where the table pictured flips open to seat 8 to 10" alt="We can sit 8 to ten in the salon, where the table pictured flips open to seat 8 to 10" src="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/cloverleaftable_thumb.jpg" width="260" height="205" align="right" border="0" /></a> In a small boat, a combi microwave convection oven still takes up less space than any kind of full stove, and can be run off an inverter. I use my microwave more than any other method of cooking.</p>
<p>You also made no mention of things like slow cookers, or the old electric fry pan, which again can be run with an inverter off the batteries, which can be charged with wind or sun if you don&#8217;t want a generator.</p>
<p>Even generator technology has improved so there are very small, very quiet ones, that almost anyone can fit on a boat. There are just so many things happening right now in the technology field, that even we are old fashioned, but to me, reading about the galleys you featured was like stepping back in time, a time before even our first boat came on the market.</p>
<h6>About Bev</h6>
<p><a href="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/davebevcloverleaf3.jpg"><img style="display: inline; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border-width: 0px;" title="Dave and  Bev on Cloverleaf" alt="Dave and  Bev on Cloverleaf" src="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/davebevcloverleaf3_thumb.jpg" width="260" height="211" align="right" border="0" /></a> <span class="note">After a quarter century of sailing and racing fast, mostly Inland Lakes Scows we switched to a Cal-46-3 sail boat in 1977, what you might call a life defining moment. And what a life it was.</span></p>
<p class="note">We sailed for 21 years, never letting grass grow on our keel, until I said one day, &#8220;Life on the slant isn&#8217;t fun anymore.&#8221;</p>
<p class="note">I was just too creaky in the joints to continue to enjoy it, but remove the slant, make it more comfortable, (you might think of it as an old folks home for cruisers) and we were able to continue doing the parts we loved.</p>
<p class="note">We moved aboard our second cruising boat, a 61 foot custom Krogen design, and we have been living full time aboard since 2002. We have no other home than the boat, and so far, it is still as good as it gets.</p>
<p class="note">I would put ourselves in the category of &#8220;coastal cruisers&#8221;, which allowed us to cover the entire eastern seaboard from Grand Manan, Canada, to half the western coast of Florida, all of the Caribbean excluding Cuba, from Hispaniola, (both coasts of the Dominican Republic) through all the islands and the coast of Venezuela as far west as Bonaire, and Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico in the western Caribbean.</p>
<p class="note">Since I am a coastal cruiser, and want to see it all, and since my motto has been, &#8220;Never, never sail at night, always keep the land in sight,&#8221; we have probably anchored more times that most people who have circumnavigated.</p>
<p><span class="note"><a href="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/cloverleafturkey2007a.jpg"><img style="display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;" title="Cloverleaf in Turkey 2007" alt="Cloverleaf in Turkey 2007" src="http://www.womenandcruising.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/cloverleafturkey2007a_thumb.jpg" width="260" height="204" align="right" border="0" /></a> We covered a lot of the Med, from the Balearics to Turkey, and south along the coast to Egypt, through the Suez Canal, as far south as Abu Tieg. We spent five summers and three winters in the Med, but of course, <a href="http://www.yacht-transport.com/" target="_blank">Dockwise</a></span> <span class="note">took care of the ocean crossings.</span></p>
<p class="note">Now that I am older and much lazier, and not experiencing the joys of sailing, I find it easier to do some of those longer jumps, say 36 to 48 hours, rather than plowing up the ICW, but I am very careful about the sea conditions when passage planning. I saw the injuries our older sailing friends had, from that instability we all have happen as we age, and I am doing my best not to let it happen to me, or Dave.</p>
<p>Bev and Dave Feiges<br /> Aboard <span class="boat_name">Cloverleaf</span><br /> Chesapeake Bay</p>
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<h6>Read also on this website</h6>
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<li><span class="note"><a href="http://www.womenandcruising.com/galley-18-advice.htm" target="_blank">Galley Advice from 18 Cruising Women</a><br /> </span></li>
<li class="note"><a href="http://womenandcruising.com/galley-12-refits.htm#BevFeiges" target="_blank">Bev&#8217;s contribution to our article &#8220;Refitting the Galley: 12 Experiences&#8221;</a></li>
<li class="note"><a href="http://www.womenandcruising.com/admirals-angle/2009/03/31-to-have-or-have-not/" target="_blank">To Have or Have Not? </a>(Admiral&#8217;s Angle column #31)<br /> Equipping your boat with an eye to striking a balance between simplicity and complexity</li>
<li><span class="note"><a href="http://www.womenandcruising.com/admirals-angle/2009/07/35-the-cruising-galley/" target="_blank">The Cruising Galley</a> ((Admiral&#8217;s Angle column #35)<br /> When cruising, meals suddenly matter again, and, for many, cooking becomes a pleasurable adventure rather than a stereotypical chore.</span></li>
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<li class="note">Read Bev Feiges&#8217;s blog, &#8220;<a href="http://www.feiges.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Cruising with Cloverleaf</a>&#8220;</li>
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