Seashells are lovely but searching for glass fishing floats is far more challenging and a thrilling hobby for cruisers.
Dealing with Unpredictable Boat Travel Times – Lessons for Cruisers
Dealing with unpredictable boat travel time is one of the biggest challenges for new cruisers. Here’s one first-timer’s story for you to learn from.
🎧Celebrating Thanksgiving While Cruising
Celebrating Thanksgiving while Cruising can be a challenge. But, even if it doesn’t look like past holidays, it brings its own rewards.
Celebrating Thanksgiving While Cruising – Podcast Transcript
Ahhh, Thanksgiving. It would actually be pretty easy for me to be sad about all we’re missing this particular Thanksgiving. It’s my favorite holiday, a chance to gather family and friends around a groaning table, where the food may be the visual focus, but the real point is being together and being grateful for what […]
🎧Buying from the Ship in the Tuamotus
A Tuamotus shopping experience where the ship is a store. Buying directly from the supply ship in Takaroa was a lovely cruising lesson Summary Cruising offers opportunities to have many new experiences and to learn new skills. We recently learned how to “shop the ship” in the Tuamotus. Let me tell you about it. Friends near our anchorage introduced […]
Managing Sleep on an Overnight Passage
Worried about managing sleep on an overnight passage. Our tips will help. Sleeping well begins long before laying your head down 😴
🎧The Best Guest Book for Cruisers
What is the best guest book for cruisers? One that gives guests time and space to write about cherished memories.
Where are Your Dream Cruising Grounds?
Where are your dream cruising grounds? How you answer that question when people ask can be the difference between feeling like a failure or having fun.
Boat Navigation Redundancy – Always Have a Backup
The best way to know where you are when underway is to have redundant navigations systems. Here’s what we suggest.
How to Anchor a Cruising Boat
We anchored as if we knew it would blow 50 every single time we dropped the hook. Because sometimes it does. Here’s the whole system.