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Tag: Fears This is the second half of a 2-part article first published in the South African Sailing magazine of April and May 2014. You can read part 1 here. Multitasking I am never bored and always busy. Being able to multitask was for me a must and required good organisational skills. I was sometimes …Read more  Ready to go In 2007, my husband Wayne and I traveled from Bayfield, Wisconsin, on Lake Superior to Punta Gorda, Florida, on our Island Packet 445 sailboat. We chose the long route, which took us through the Saint Lawrence Seaway and the Canadian Maritime provinces, a trip of about five thousand miles. I had absolutely no intention …Read more  As I prepare for a brief 4-day jaunt to Biscayne Bay with my ketch Annie Laurie, a trip I’ve been planning for weeks, I realize it’s been close to 3 years since I’ve taken the boat out sailing on my own. I’ve decided it’s high time to try again, to remind myself that …Read more  Sherri’s question One of the things I want to ask other women about is going up the mast.I feel silly about it because twenty years ago I was adventurous and really liked heights and was into rock climbing! But over the past few years I have become fearful of heights and no matter how much …Read more 
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 …Read more  I always thought that my fellow female cruisers experience the cruising lifestyle in a sort of similar way. That is, have similar expectations, apprehensions and passions. That fears they experience, the interests and dreams pursued and the skills obtained, would be generally the same. So, I asked some questions. In fact, I asked all the lady cruisers I had …Read more  My first sail was on May 24th 1999, I was 41 years old. My husband had sailed from the time he was a young boy, starting off in dinghies. We had purchased Thetis, a Halcyon 23, restored her and were now ready to sail. There was one small problem: her engine was …Read more |
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