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Category: Safety

Outback Water Filtration – Part 1

  • By admin
  • July 7, 2022
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The water source at our house is from a well. It had some of the best tasting water we have experienced until we discovered the high mineral content that was … Continue Reading

Weather Resources

  • By John Casey
  • March 14, 2019
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Recently we had a great sailing adventure to The Bahamas with friends that own a Leopard 45 catamaran. We will be forever grateful to them for getting us out of … Continue Reading

Purchases Beyond Boat Yard Work

  • By John Casey
  • February 13, 2019
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In our last post, we covered our plan and budget vs reality for our boat yard work. In this post  we’re looking at the surprising number of items that we ended … Continue Reading

WiFi and Lizards in the Exumas

  • By Christa Greer
  • March 20, 2018
  • 2 Comments

As we headed north from Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park, our next stop was Normans Cay where notorious drug smuggler, Carlos Lehder, built an ambitious operation in the early … Continue Reading

Crossing the Gulf Stream

  • By John Casey
  • March 9, 2018
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One of the barriers that keeps a lot of people from boating to The Bahamas is the requirement to cross The Gulf Stream. This barrier is both a mental one, … Continue Reading

Anchor Gear

  • By John Casey
  • February 15, 2018
  • 2 Comments

One of the great things about living on a boat, is the ability to anchor just about anywhere you like without the need for infrastructure like a marina or mooring … Continue Reading

What About “Bad Weather” in The Bahamas

  • By John Casey
  • January 28, 2018
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For the last few days we have been waiting for, and then sitting through, a stint of “bad weather” in Thompson Bay Long Island with about 25 other boats.  “Good … Continue Reading

Why You Listen To Port Authorities And Weather Warnings

  • By John Casey
  • January 18, 2018
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I’m sure we’ll make a stupid mistake or 3, but what were these knuckleheads thinking?!

Uninvited Guest

  • By John Casey
  • January 9, 2018
  • 1 Comment

The crabs around here can be pretty funny trying to defend their turf. Remember those crabs from Nemo? Christa came across this guy doing his best to scare her away … Continue Reading

Life Raft Location

  • By John Casey
  • December 13, 2017
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We hadn’t given much thought to Life Rafts and whether we wanted one prior to buying the boat. Most boats do come with them, but most we came across are … Continue Reading

Sailing Lessons

  • By Christa Greer
  • December 8, 2017
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I needed to brush up on my sailing skills to be comfortable handling the boat by myself, specifically not taught by John (to save the marriage) so John arranged 4 … Continue Reading

Track Our Location

  • By John Casey
  • December 2, 2017
  • 6 Comments

One of our little toys arrived yesterday, a Garmin inReach. Compact and water resistant, it has a number of features that we like. 100% global iridium satellite coverage enables 2-way text … Continue Reading

Tropical Storm Philippe

  • By John Casey
  • October 29, 2017
  • 1 Comment

Hurricane season in this part of the world is defined by most organizations (read: insurance companies) as running from 1 June to 1 November. The first boat we looked at … Continue Reading

Tropical Weather

  • By John Casey
  • September 4, 2017
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The topic-du-jour has been Hurricane Irma bearing down on the Caribbean and the continental United States. This means a delay on the next prospective boat’s survey and sea-trial as the marina … Continue Reading

USPS: Boating safety tools now online

  • By John Casey
  • November 5, 2016
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To promote safe boating, United States Power Squadrons has launched its new Digital Media Library online and as a free mobile app. A showcase and repository for digital media focused … Continue Reading

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

  • By John Casey
  • May 1, 2016
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Here’s another great article from gCaptain. For the most part they tend to be about the general shipping industry, but every once in a while their newsletter has a great … Continue Reading

Caribbean Safety and Security Net

  • By John Casey
  • March 13, 2016
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CSSN – Caribbean Safety and Security Net – Know Before You Go This is a great site that we came across from a recent tweet from Noonsite.com. The Caribbean Safety … Continue Reading

Caribbean Yacht Security

  • By John Casey
  • February 26, 2016
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This is a post from Noonsite.com. Good news that some measures are being put into place to address this issue. Caribbean Yacht Security: New protocols and arrangements for your safety … Continue Reading

Coast Guard approves official electronic charts

  • By John Casey
  • February 9, 2016
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Interesting news. I’ve had more than one person tell me that electronic charts had been officially allowed for years. WASHINGTON – The U.S. Coast Guard published guidance Feb. 5 that … Continue Reading

I learned something new already this morning! | Zero to Cruising!

  • By John Casey
  • January 30, 2016
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We subscribe to the blog zerotocruising.com from fellow Canadians Mike and Rebbecca Sweeney. In today’s newsletter their article was I learned something new already this morning!  It was about a … Continue Reading

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