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Category: Sharing Our Stories Hello ! My name is Valérie, I’m 55, and I sail with my husband François, 67, on our sailing yacht, Cybèle 17, an OVNI 445, in Scandinavian. We live year round on her, on water. Many thanks to Women & Cruising for inviting me to contribute to your blog. I’m French and English is a second …Read more  Photo: Cornell Sailing How did a middle-aged cruising sailor, mother and psychologist, end up in the company of 13 incredible women who set sail aboard a Sea Dragon to cross an ocean? Not literally a Sea Dragon, but the Sea Dragon, a research sailing vessel operated by Pangaea Explorations. It …Read more 
One summer when I was a teenager, I read all Bernard Moitessier’s books, I continued with Joshua Soclum and Eric Tabarly’s adventures. Inevitably, I then started dreaming about ocean crossings, long passages and spending lots of time at sea. However, I grew up more than 1000km away from the sea and I couldn’t consider myself a …Read more  My husband and I sailed together for 24 years, half of which in the Mediterranean with our 37 year old 31ft Hallberg Rassy. Max was a retired sea captain and marine pilot so he was used to giving orders on board which I obeyed without question. Sadly he died earlier this …Read more  I first read Ruth’s article about going overboard when it was first published in the Caribbean Compass back in 1999. It was an amazing story and I wondered if I could possibly be as resourceful as Ruth if something like that happened to me. Before I went cruising, …Read more  Before our role as committee boat for the Rolex Regatta, I had no idea what would be involved. The concept, as I understood it, seemed simple enough: Clean up the boat then stay handy and out of the way at the same time. The morning of the first day, a breeze blew through the salon and a …Read more  “The world was theirs” is Mattie McAlarney’s favorite headline written about her seven-and-a-half-year trip around the world with husband Henry. The couple wrapped up a 70-country cruise aboard their 39-foot Corbin Center Cockpit 2 Extreme in 2009. “I wanted to be home for my 70th birthday,” Mattie tells me as I admire the aft-cabin …Read more  CONVERGENCE under sail in front of Moorea A boat is as personal as a love affair. The relationship with one’s boat is subtle, personal, addictive. Like any relationship though, a boat takes time to figure out and work to maintain. The right boat can bring forth deep passion, evoke …Read more  When I first decided to set out to the Bahamas aboard my 40-foot wooden Rosborough ketch, I didn’t really contemplate the possibility that I would be wholly unsuccessful at finding crew interested in a free tropical vacation. But, alas, people have lives and …Read more  There’s no two ways about it: being out at sea changes me. It’s hard to write about this without streaking off on a tangent of froth. To an artist, the sea is a moody canvas of light, texture, color and motion to capture, but to a sailor, it’s more than that. The surface of the sea is …Read more  Hurricane Irene – August 23, 2011 – 21:45 UTC – Photo Goes East As readers prepare for hurricane Irene, we are re-printing a story that Pam Wall wrote about going through Hurricane Dennis in the Abacos. In it she shares a list of things to have aboard to help you prepare as well as a …Read more  “Do we remember how to do this?” I ponder in my offshore sailing journal. “My mind creaks as I shift from boat maintenance to sailing. Having spent the hurricane season in Wisconsin with the boat tucked into a boatyard in Florida, Dave and I realize it has been five months since we’d hoisted sail on our …Read more |
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