Beer, wine and other alcoholic drinks seem to be an ingrained part of the cruising life. But we’ve found that cutting back a little has actually improved our life aboard!
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Carolyn Shearlock has lived aboard full-time for 17 years, splitting her time between a Tayana 37 monohull and a Gemini 105 catamaran. She’s cruised over 14,000 miles, from Pacific Mexico and Central America to Florida and the Bahamas, gaining firsthand experience with the joys and challenges of life on the water.
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Anonymous says
Our only hard and fast rule is no drinking before or during overnight trips. And the first mate ( that’d be me) gets a beer after raising and setting sails. 🙂
Anonymous says
We don’t drink, so that’s an easy one. I make concentrated simple syrups such as ginger and other flavors to add to sparkling water made with our soda siphon. Iced tea and Arnold Palmers are a staple.
Anonymous says
No drinking until we are at our final destination for the night. Mild consumption thereafter if we drop the hook.
Anonymous says
When the hook is down! One exception was when we were heading south past the normally blustery Cape Mendocino in California with the spinnaker up in the middle of the day. 10knot breeze and sunny. We all four had one beverage to celebrate. We’d been out for three full 24hour days at that point.