Miami to Beef Island BVI
We’re here! Our final travel leg was from Miami to Beef Island BVI, via San Juan PR. We wanted to fly directly to The BVI to avoid dealing with ferries between USVI and Tortola, … Continue Reading
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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
Help put Pizza Pi back in Christmas Cove
Christa and I came across this unique business our first night out of Red Hook, USVI during our charter last year. You can read about their story on their website: … Continue Reading
EarthWindMap
EarthWindMap is a very cool website that gives you a visualization of global weather conditions forecast by supercomputers updated every three hours; ocean surface current estimates updated every five days; … Continue Reading
Best Boats 2016: Bali 4.3 Review – Sail Magazine
Leave it to Catana to come up with something new. This time, it’s a production 43ft catamaran that bears little resemblance to the company’s racy voyagers. They call the new … Continue Reading
Bali 4.5 – Miami Boat Show – Part 2
Part 1 here: Bali 4.5 – Miami Boat Show We had left our information with one of the people working the Bali 4.5 at the show. When we never heard … Continue Reading
Lagoon 42 – Miami Boat Show – Part 2
Part 1 is here: Lagoon 42 – Miami Boat Show The Lagoon 42 webpage has finally been updated with actual pictures instead of computer generated models. They’ve included a video tat … Continue Reading
Maverick 440 – Miami Boat Show – Part 2
Part 2 of our original post here: Maverick 440 – Miami Boat Show Rudi got back to me with some info and prices. I asked him about one that was … Continue Reading
Caribbean Safety and Security Net
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
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
Lagoon 42 – Miami Boat Show
One of the boats we were looking forward to seeing was the Lagoon 42. It seemed to be one of the most popular boats of the weekend for most other … 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
Maverick 440 – Miami Boat Show
The boat we were most intrigued with was the Maverick 440. We had read about them on various blogs and magazines, but had yet to see one (or the 400) … Continue Reading
Aragorn’s Studio Raku Pottery – Trellis Bay BVI
While we were waiting for the craziness to start with the BVI version of Burning Man at Trellis Bay on Christmas, we had some time to enjoy a tour and … Continue Reading
Coast Guard approves official electronic charts
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
Miami Boat Show – Strictly Sail Miami
Less than a week to go! The annual Strictly Sail Miami show kicks off in Miami on February 11, and as usual there’s a strong multihull contingent. Among the new … Continue Reading
Catamaran vs Monohull
As we get closer to Strictly Sail Miami we’re trying to load up with as much information as possible. We came across and interesting set of videos from SV Delos on their YouTube … Continue Reading
Cruising Catamarans
We’re headed to the Strictly Sail Miami boat show in February since it will be the best place to try and get on as many catamarans (and likely some monos) as … 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