Leap Of Faith: Quit Your Job and Live on a Boat
Ok, so I should have paid more attention to the number of pages in this book before I bought it. It’s just wee. Less than 130 pages. Now, as far … Continue Reading
Category: Books
How To Sail Around The World
I recently finished Hal Roth’s How To Sail Around The World. Other than texts books for sailing courses that I have done, it is the first book that I have … Continue Reading
Living a Dream
I find the best way to judge a book is if I’d recommend it to someone else…well, it just happened, without me even thinking about it. I finished reading Living a … Continue Reading
Sailing the Whole Enchilada-¡Qué Bárbara! – John
This book is the sequel to Sailing the Great Escape – ¡QuéBárbara! that I read back in July. It’s also my first foray into the Kindle book realm. While the … Continue Reading
Free Nautical eBooks
Even though we haven’t fully embraced the e-book phenomenon yet, there are plenty out there. Look at this ultimate list of FREE nautical themed e-books from manybooks.net. So far my … Continue Reading
Living A Dream
While Christa is toiling away with her sailing courseware, I just finished another autobiographical account of a couple who quit their jobs and moved aboard their sailboat to go cruising. … Continue Reading
Another Free Magazine!
Woohoo! We found another free magazine online! Southwinds is a free, monthly Sailing magazine dedicated to Sailing and Cruising in Florida and The South. Monthly information, articles, resources, sailboat racing, … Continue Reading
More Magazines
We found another couple of magazines to add to our growing repository. It’s amazing how may of them are out there. Obviously there is no way we will have time … Continue Reading
Symbols and Abbreviations Used on Admiralty Paper Charts
Here was a semi-costly lesson that hopefully will help you avoid the same mistake. When we went on our Day Skipper Course, we weren’t smart enough to take anything with … Continue Reading
Sailing the Great Escape- ¡QuéBárbara!
I just finished another book, Sailing the Great Escape- ¡QuéBárbara! Whereas the previous book I read, Bumfuzzle, was a fairly comprehensive chronological accounting of a couples circumnavigation, this book was written more … Continue Reading
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
Bumfuzzle
I just finished another book. It is from a co-author (Patrick Schulte) from another one I read called Live On The Margin. This one is about him and his wife … Continue Reading
Get Her On Board
Two days after finishing my latest book, I just finished another one by the same author, Get Her On Board by Nick O’Kelly. Advertised as a man’s guide to sharing The … Continue Reading
Live On The Margin
I just finished another book called Live On The Margin by Patrick Schulte and Nick O’Kelly. Patrick has a blog (and book) called Bumfuzzle, and Nick wrote another book which … Continue Reading
Books Books And More Books
Here is the latest bunch of books to arrive courtesy of Amazon a few days ago. We come across the titles through various means, with no one real trusted source. … Continue Reading
Two In A Boat
I was away for work for a week so I took the opportunity to finish reading Two in a Boat since Christa had already read it herself. This book was not my … Continue Reading
The Essentials Of Living Aboard A Boat
We have been slowly switching all our reading over to something related to cruising and/or sailing. We’ve been getting our selections mainly from other sailing/cruising blogs and the recommendations that … Continue Reading
Two In A Boat
I just finished my first book that I deliberately selected to cover what we may need to know towards our cruising lifestyle. Two in a Boat was written by Gwenyth Lewis, … 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