Boating schools teach you to handle a boat. The Boat Galley covers everything they don’t — provisioning, boat systems, storage, weather, safety, and the real day-to-day of the cruising life.
Since 2010, we’ve helped thousands of people make this life work, through 1,100+ articles, courses, books, gear we couldn’t find anywhere else, and our free weekly newsletter. And everyone on our team is a liveaboard cruiser — see our bios at the bottom.
ARTICLES: Find What You Need
Click the tile that best describes where you are right now — or search for something specific below.
STORE: Gear and Guides for Life Aboard
We built our store the same way we built this site — by filling gaps. Gear, guides, and books we created because they didn’t exist, plus a few finds most boaters don’t know about.
Our Most Popular Products
Cruising Guides
Detailed table-format info on anchorages with protection direction, bridges, haulouts, services, and more. Up-to-date. Spiral-bound or PDF.
Weather Basics for Boaters
Stop just checking the overview. Learn to find and interpret the details in the apps you already use. Paperback or PDF.
Marriage Saver Headsets
Auto-pairing Bluetooth headsets for anchoring, docking, locking, and going up the mast. Stop pointing and yelling. Start discussing.
Breeze Bandit Wind Scoop
Stop getting up at 2AM to reset your windscoop. Catch even the tiniest breeze from any direction, automatically.
See all our products · Many also available on Amazon
COURSES: Learn the Life
We learned about cruising life the hard way — years of trial and error, piecing together knowledge from dock conversations, tattered copies of Cruising World, and more than a few mistakes. You shouldn’t have to do it that way. Our courses cover the practical realities of life aboard, with step-by-step guidance to make your move to boat life a smooth one.
Our most popular option by far is the All-Access Pass — all 11 courses covering every aspect of life aboard, for less than half the cost of buying them individually.
$199 — Learn More About the All-Access Pass
Just need one topic? See all our courses
NEWSLETTER: Free, Every Wednesday
Real stories, practical tips, and honest advice covering the full range of cruising and liveaboard life — provisioning, boat systems, safety, passage planning, and more. 10 articles, every Wednesday.
Meet the Team
- Founder of The Boat Galley
- 17 years liveaboard cruiser
- US, Mexico, Bahamas, Central America, Virgin Islands, Turkey
- Cruisers University instructor
- Cruising Guide creator
- 8 years living aboard and cruising
- US East Coast from Florida Keys to Maine and Bahamas
- Ex-Air Force; singlehander
- Provisioning guru
- On & off living aboard since 1992
- Atlantic and Pacific crossings; US, Caribbean, and French Polynesia
- Years of cruising with kids
- VHF pro and frugal cruiser
- Cruiser and delivery captain
- US East Coast, Bahamas, Haiti, and Caribbean
- Cruisers University instructor
- Creator of Cruising With Your Dog and From Dreamer to Cruiser
- 7 years cruising with Honey
- US East Coast and ICW
- Part of the Go Pet Friendly team
- 15+ years writing about dogs
- Graphic designer
- 8 years living aboard
- US East Coast to SE Caribbean
- Design and layout for all printed products
- Creator, The Uncertain Cruiser
- Author, The Co-Captain's Log
- Pacific Ocean: Seattle, WA to New Zealand, incl. French Polynesia
- Complete newbie to sailing prior to her 11,000 nm voyage
- Boatshow booth "mom"
- Author, Crew of Three
- Sabbatical and part-year cruiser
- US, Bahamas, Caribbean
- Family cruising New England to southern Caribbean