The Fastnet Yacht Race Tragedy of 1979
Another video from YouTube. This one is a BBC documentary about the story of a Force 10 gale which decimated the 1979 Fastnet race, the last of the Admiral’s Cup events in … Continue Reading
Our Stumble Into The Cruising Life
Another video from YouTube. This one is a BBC documentary about the story of a Force 10 gale which decimated the 1979 Fastnet race, the last of the Admiral’s Cup events in … Continue Reading
This is the fifth part of a five part article. For Part 4… Mon, 23 Nov 2009 Yachting World Insider’s suggestions to make the big adventure go smoothly. Collated by … Continue Reading
This is the forth part of a five part article. For Part 3… Mon, 23 Nov 2009 Yachting World Insider’s suggestions to make the big adventure go smoothly. Collated by … Continue Reading
This is the third part of a five part article. For Part 2… Mon, 23 Nov 2009 Yachting World Insider’s suggestions to make the big adventure go smoothly. Collated by … Continue Reading
This is the second part of a five part article. For Part 1… Mon, 23 Nov 2009 Yachting World Insider’s suggestions to make the big adventure go smoothly. Collated by … Continue Reading
Here’s a fairly long but very informative article, via the Sailfeed site, about the trouble some people got in while participating on the 2013 Caribbean 1500 rally. Interesting perspective for … Continue Reading
This week I finished the Sail course through CPS. I spent a lot of time reading through the material (yes, much longer than John took), so I felt pretty confident … Continue Reading
Here was a semi-costly lesson that hopefully will help you avoid the same mistake. When we went on our Day Skipper Course, we weren’t smart enough to take anything with … Continue Reading
In looking for checklists and how to prepare for sailing, we came across this series of articles from Yachting World. While we no Atlantic Crossing in our future, the planning equally … Continue Reading
Our Royal Yachting Association (RYA) membership pack arrived the other day. We joined with a Family Membership, which is for two adults and any number of children under the age of 18 … Continue Reading
During our day Day Skipper Course in Malta, Christa was having trouble remember her points of sail. I thought of this when I came across a useful/funny little picture explaining them quite … Continue Reading
We are big catamaran fans, so we really liked this article from Sail Magazine Crossing the Atlantic on a Catamaran with the ARC By Meredith Laitos When cruising sailors talk … Continue Reading
We have a couple books on knots listed on our site, and occasionally we pull out a couple lengths of line to practice, but as we don’t yet own our … 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
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
In Part 1, we wrote about what we thought of the boat we spent the week on, and what we think we want in any future boat, either chartering or buying. The … Continue Reading
We just got back from our great trip to Malta. We had reserved a week-long live aboard course with Sailing School Malta. We found the school by checking the directory … Continue Reading
John & I just got back from a sailing week in Malta where we qualified to be “Day Skippers” of a sailboat – complete with official ID cards. We lived … 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
I got one more course out of the way, The Maritime Radio Course, again through the Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons (CPS). As with most CPS courses you can complete The Maritime … Continue Reading