Bottom painting. How do you keep this regular, messy, job in check? 6 steps will have you clean, painted, and ready to splash.
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🎧Three Reasons to Go to a Boat Show
Thinking a boat show is only good if you’re shopping for a new boat? Nica outlines 3 OTHER reasons going to a show is worth your time and energy. Hope to see you in Annapolis in the fall!
🎧 Working as You’re Cruising
Earn as you voyage, enrich your life while you cruise. Working along the way is an amazing way to broaden your horizons as you chase the next adventure.
🎧Fun & Unexpected Ingredients
Special ingredients can make any meal memorable. Try out fun foodstuffs before you stock up, and have fun experimenting!
🎧 The Precision of Boat Space
We’re used to thinking BIG. But boats demand small, precise, exact – and an inch can be as big as a mile, especially when renovating!
An Easier Way to Splice Double Braid Rope
One tip from a professional rigging shop changed everything about how I splice double braid. Here’s what they taught me.
🎧Two Clues
Is cruising different on a smaller, simpler boat? Obviously yes, in the boat. But in other ways as well? See what Lin Pardey has to say about the consequences of “go small, go simple, go now.”
🎧Privacy on Board
Ever worry about how to maintain your alone time on a boat? There are a few tricks – and a surprising way to think about it. Listen along as Nica shares some tips you can implement on your boat too!
The Courage to Try Something New
Cruising itself may be new, and it’s made up of all sorts of individual items that are going to be “something new” too. Preparing for the challenge of doing all sorts of new things.
🎧A Day Aboard Totem
Cruising days generally involve life – cooking, eating, adventuring, fixing things. See how one day played out for 9 people on board Totem.









