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
Our Stumble Into The Cruising Life
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
Great promo video from PADI.
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
Fly the CPS-ECP Flag Contest Fly the CPS-ECP Flag and Win! Share a picture of yourself hoisting the CPS-ECP flag (regular/life member) on Twitter or Facebook and automatically be … Continue Reading
We have had pretty good luck with our docking adventures so far. Most of our time has been spent on a Dufour 36 and a Bavaria 46. We’ve had some sporty … Continue Reading
While searching for information on various designs we came across the Blue Water Boats website. It bills itself as “a collaborative resource of sailboat reviews for our cruising community,” and has … Continue Reading
We’ve gone from being able to tie a bowline in the dark (or with our eyes closed) to having to look it up again! We have a couple of good books … Continue Reading
Even though this may make us a shill for YBW, they do have a really nice online weather tool: Weather Tool For Sailors.
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 on the Med we don’t have to worry about tides, but having grown up just off the Bay of Fundy, they are always on our minds. In fact, we … Continue Reading
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
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
We came across another magazine (wow there are a lot) by sniffing through someone else’s blog site. We’ll never get around to read them all consistently, but it’s good to … Continue Reading
We must have reached some arbitrary milestone on the net, as the site is now getting ridiculous amounts of spam comments every day. When we first started there might have … Continue Reading
In an attempt to class up the house a bit…and we need lots of help in that department, we wanted to get a painting or print to put on the … Continue Reading
Coming from an aviation background, John was used to having a checklist for just about everything. He was interested in what he could find out there in a similar vein for sailing. … Continue Reading
We just got done watching a Distance Shores episode about the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) and wondered if there was a similar event on the Pacific Coast. Turns out … Continue Reading
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
Here’s a bit of a shout out to the Canada Power and Sail Squadrons (CPS) that we have been doing some courses with. We stumbled across another resource they have that … Continue Reading
Here’s an interesting article that we received via the Sail Magazine newletter that shows up periodically in our inbox: http://www.sailmagazine.com/cruising-news/no-boys-boat Sometimes information specifically for women can be in short supply … Continue Reading