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80° North: Sailing On Top Of The World

  • By admin
  • December 12, 2020
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80° North: Sailing On Top Of The World is a great addition to your sailing movies library. It’s a new mini-series from SV Delos and 59 North that covers their … Continue Reading

Sailingmovies.net

  • By admin
  • November 14, 2019
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I just noticed that we have not posted anything since March(!) when we were down in S. Florida, and now we’re surrounded by snow in mid-November…not in S. Florida.  Since … 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

Proceeds from Selling our Boat

  • By John Casey
  • February 17, 2019
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This is the last post of our little financial journey through the ownership of our 2015 Leopard 44, LOW FLITE. In previous posts we looked at how to pay for the … 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

Plan and Budget vs Reality for Boat Yard Work

  • By John Casey
  • February 11, 2019
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In the previous post, we looked at the purchase price and admin costs associated with actually buying the boat. In this post we are covering what our boat yard work … Continue Reading

Purchase Price and Admin Costs for Buying our Boat

  • By John Casey
  • February 9, 2019
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In our previous post, we looked at “how” we decided to pay for the boat. In this post we’ll cover “what” we paid, and we’ll try and cover all the … Continue Reading

How To Pay For The Boat

  • By John Casey
  • February 7, 2019
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The decision to buy a suitable boat for living aboard or cruising will be a major financial transaction on the scale of buying a house. Whether we’re talking about a … Continue Reading

What is a PADI Divemaster?

  • By John Casey
  • January 25, 2019
  • 2 Comments

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

Divemaster Qualified

  • By John Casey
  • January 1, 2019
  • 3 Comments

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

Fish Identification Website – Reefguide.org

  • By John Casey
  • November 12, 2018
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We carry a few of these little Fish ID cards with us since we first saw them on a charter a few years back. ID cards like these are available … Continue Reading

Dive Master Course

  • By John Casey
  • October 12, 2018
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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

Catamaran Market Report – Q3 2018

  • By John Casey
  • October 4, 2018
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Since we just sold our boat, we were interested to find a 2018 Q3 market report on catamaran sales and we able to see where we fit in the overall … Continue Reading

Sailing Magazines

  • By John Casey
  • April 28, 2018
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With some time to ourselves away the boat, I reviewed our website and found some dead links that needed fixing. A lot of them were on our Magazines Page. Almost … Continue Reading

Exploring Ruins on Pipe Cay

  • By John Casey
  • March 7, 2018
  • 1 Comment

We were looking for a convenient place to anchor north of Staniel Cay area before spending some time at the Land & Sea Park at Warderick Wells. Christa suggested Pipe … Continue Reading

Weather Radar in The Bahamas via The Cuban Meteorological Institute

  • By John Casey
  • January 31, 2018
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We’ve been gunkholing around Long Island for the past few weeks, not venturing too far away since the weather has been unsettled. Even with internet access, one of the problems in … Continue Reading

Cool Galley Tricks

  • By Christa Greer
  • January 30, 2018
  • 2 Comments

Being new to the boating world, we have so many things to learn. One common problem for people who live aboard is how to keep fresh fruits and vegetables when … Continue Reading

What About “Bad Weather” in The Bahamas

  • By John Casey
  • January 28, 2018
  • 1 Comment

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

Captain Ron

  • By John Casey
  • January 26, 2018
  • 5 Comments

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

Stand Up Paddleboard (SUP) – our new favourite toy

  • By Christa Greer
  • January 19, 2018
  • 3 Comments

Before we left Florida, John got a couple inflatable Stand Up Paddleboards (SUP)* at Sirocco Marine in Ft Lauderdale. He found a great deal for these while talking to a … Continue Reading

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