30 tips for crossing the Atlantic: 1 – 5
In looking for checklists and how to prepare for sailing, we came across this series of articles from Yachting World. While we no Atlantic Crossing in our future, the planning equally … Continue Reading
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RYA Membership Package
Our Royal Yachting Association (RYA) membership pack arrived the other day. We joined with a Family Membership, which is for two adults and any number of children under the age of 18 … Continue Reading
Distant Shores Season 10
We just got through the last Season 9 episode of Distant Shores, which is an adventure tourism television series produced by Shard Multimedia Inc. Paul and Sheryl are fellow Canadians … Continue Reading
Crossing the Atlantic on a Catamaran with the ARC
We are big catamaran fans, so we really liked this article from Sail Magazine Crossing the Atlantic on a Catamaran with the ARC By Meredith Laitos When cruising sailors talk … Continue Reading
Knots
We have a couple books on knots listed on our site, and occasionally we pull out a couple lengths of line to practice, but as we don’t yet own our … Continue Reading
Victoria to Maui Race
We just got done watching a Distance Shores episode about the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) and wondered if there was a similar event on the Pacific Coast. Turns out … Continue Reading
The CPS Boating Resource
Here’s a bit of a shout out to the Canada Power and Sail Squadrons (CPS) that we have been doing some courses with. We stumbled across another resource they have that … Continue Reading
180 South
In our attempt to find another sailing movie (which is surprisingly hard by the way) we came across this on Netflix. The film follows adventurer/slacker/dirt-bag (that’s what they actually call … Continue Reading
World Cruising and Sailing Wiki
We recently found an interesting website called the World Cruising and Sailing Wiki. Here’s a description from the main page: “The World Cruising and Sailing Wiki (an online world … Continue Reading
Sailing Vacation
All the planning and reading we have been doing is obviously necessary, but at some point we actually will need to spend some real time on a boat…together. While we feel … Continue Reading
Fitness
We’ve read a lot of websites and blogs about the living aboard, and a great many of them include information and suggestions about staying fit while living on a boat, … Continue Reading
Email Subscriptions!
Now that we figured out how to install an email subscription to the site here, we almost feel like pros! We used a free WordPress widget from Webfish. Now if there … Continue Reading
We Begin…Again
This used to say that we now have a site up and running so that we can start chronicling the steps towards achieving our ultimate goal to cut the dock lines and … Continue Reading