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Tag: Offshore voyage This article was first published on Sailing Phoenix, Marie Raney’s blog. What’s it really like to go offshore? A delight of dolphins! I have been a sailor all my life, but only started cruising in 2001. I grew up racing in small open boats, windsurfing, and day sailing. Years later when my husband proposed …Read more  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  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  A couple of years ago when my husband gave me a copy of Beth Leonard’s book, “Following Seas”, with the caveat that I probably shouldn’t read the first chapter, I might have known that sailing would have some adventures in store. But our story started long before that; it really started 8 years ago on Long Island …Read more  It’s all too easy to follow the crowd on the well-worn rut around the world without doing your own diligent voyage planning and still expect to experience reasonable conditions doing so. But the moment you think about bearing off left or right — treading the path less taken, as it were — when everyone else is going straight, having the knowledge to keep yourself in safe and comfortable sailing conditions becomes …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  “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 Good news! Beth Leonard – circumnavigator, author, and Women and Cruising contributor - will be in the US this fall sharing her recent travels and cruising experience in a series of seminars. Here’s her schedule. – Kathy Parsons September 25-27, 2009 Seven Seas Cruising Association Annapolis Gam Camp Letts, Edgewater, MD Read more |
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