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Tag: Volunteering In the Women and Cruising blog series “Take Your Passion Cruising” I wrote about my passion: birds. When you’re cruising, you’re immersed in nature, and many of us enjoy watching the birds while underway or at anchor. But as a boater you’re also in a unique position to contribute to citizen science simply …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  A year ago, I wrote about “Birding Aboard” for Women and Cruising’s series, Take Your Passion Cruising. 
The protected Bahamian harbour we are in with its keyhole-type entrance is adjacent to a very friendly community. Cruisers stop here in Hatchet Bay, Eleuthera, for short or longer stays and it is a very nice mix of both residents and a few tourists. In other words this place welcomes tourists but does not exist …Read more  Everyone has heard what has happened in Haiti, now a number of cruising sailors are organizing themselves into flotillas of private yachts to attempt to supplement aid being delivered by governments and NGO’s. OceansWatch is helping to coordinate a fleet of sailing vessels to take food, medical aid, relief supplies and support to Haiti. …Read more  If you’re not an animal lover, you may as well skip this particular log entry. Just go ahead and exit the site, or move on to the next post, because what I’m about to talk about will only deeply affect those who have large hearts for God’s creatures. Here’s a story for you Back in …Read more  I’m not sure that my experience of cruising is altogether normal… I dumped my maiden name, Land and its beguiling earthly forms, abandoned my job surveying wildlife and plunged into an alien world of motion and water. David and I bowled off from the shores of Devon, England, in our ancient sailing boat who, in her heyday, had been much …Read more  Cruiser Ellen Sanpere has been a terrific champion of volunteering as you cruise. She started the “Volunteering” section on the Women and Cruising Resources page. She worked with Fundamigos in Venezuela for a number of seasons. Now that she is hanging around in the Virgin Islands, she has been giving …Read more |
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