What is a PADI Divemaster?
What most people know about Divemasters is that they were the folks helping on the dive boat or guiding them on their last dive in some exotic place while on … Continue Reading
Category: Training
Divemaster Qualified
On November 24th, I obtained my PADI Divemaster qualification after completing a Total Immersion Program (TIP) at Sea Experience, located at The Bahia Mar Resort in Fort Lauderdale. We had planned to install … Continue Reading
PADI Digital Underwater Photography
One of the specialty courses we take while on the Divemaster Immersion Program, is the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Course. I was looking forward to this as I have always … Continue Reading
Dive Master Course
Within our brief post announcing we had sold our boat, I said that we would take the opportunity to do something else. One of the something else(s) that I came up … Continue Reading
Captain Ron
While we discussed how to spend our time over the next few days of hiding from the strong winds, the obvious options were stock-up on fresh food, boat maintenance, reading, … Continue Reading
More Boat Maintenance – It’s a dirty job…but someone’s gotta do it
Women sometimes have difficulty finding their place on the boat. This can be for a number of reasons such as when they’re following their partner’s dream and trying to see … Continue Reading
Sailing Lessons
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
USPS: Boating safety tools now online
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
Bareboat Charter Checklist
I tend to be a checklist guy, at least up to the point that an essential task is performed enough times to become routine or automatic BUT still have something … Continue Reading
Ashley Book of Knots
The Ashley Book of Knots (41.1MB) is the bible when it comes to the subject. It is a beast of a book with over 600 pages and can be quite … Continue Reading
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
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
Bali 4.5 – Miami Boat Show
One of the first boats we came across after entering the show was the Bali 4.5. We’ve read a lot of the new Bali line, but had never seen one … Continue Reading
I learned something new already this morning! | Zero to Cruising!
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
Dockmanship
Dockmanship is a neat little book from David Owen Bell that covers all the important stuff associated with being close to the dock in about 100 pages. It starts with the basics … Continue Reading
COLREGS Mnemonic
People generally like using mnemonics to help us remember things. We are no exception. For example, when we were learning how to sail, our instructor Stephen from Sailing School Malta … Continue Reading
COLREGS
Yes, we’re neglecting our blog since our recent move, but just to remind anyone watching that we are still here, we came across a neat little COLREGS guide put out … Continue Reading
A Midnight Encounter
A great lesson for all of us out there off Sail Feed We had a similar jaw dropping surprise when a cruise ship passed our stern off the coast of Malta … Continue Reading
Sound Signals and VHF Protocol in the Fog
We’re starting to look forward to getting back to North America, and thinking about the various places that we can do some sailing. Growing up on the East Coast we are … Continue Reading
Shameless Plug For PADI
Great promo video from PADI.
COLREGS – International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea
Here’s an interesting vignette to help you consider a right-of way situation we found on The Log – California’s Boating & Fishing News. We frequently test each other when encountering another … Continue Reading