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🎧Documents to Leave Your Boat in Foreign Countries

Published on December 23, 2018; last updated on December 13, 2023 by Lin Pardey

Ensure you breeze through airport customs when you want to get back to your boat. These simple documents can make all the difference. 

Ensure you breeze through airport customs when you want to get back to your boat. These simple documents can make all the difference. 

🎧Lin Pardey Answers Cruiser Questions

Published on December 9, 2018; last updated on December 13, 2023 by Lin Pardey

How has cruising changed? Lin Pardey answers cruiser questions and shares the secret to the best voyaging life.

How has cruising changed? Lin Pardey answers cruiser questions and shares the secret to the best voyaging life.

🎧Cooking When You Have Extra Crew Aboard

Published on November 25, 2018; last updated on December 13, 2023 by Lin Pardey

How do you split the galley duties, who pays for meals on shore, just some of the questions you have to consider when you invite extra crew on board

How do you split the galley duties? Who pays for meals on shore? Just some of the questions to consider when you invite extra crew on board.

🎧 Navigation Tools

Published on October 28, 2018; last updated on December 13, 2023 by Lin Pardey

After a lifetime of cruising with sextant and hand-bearing compass, Lin Pardey goes cruising with GPS and compares the experience. Is GPS really safer, or just easier?

🎧 Jury-Rig Your Rigging

Published on October 14, 2018; last updated on December 13, 2023 by Lin Pardey

A rigging failure is one of the scariest things that can happen on an offshore passage. Techniques for getting yourself to safety without outside assistance.

🎧Magic in Choosing a Better Anchorage

Published on September 30, 2018; last updated on December 13, 2023 by Lin Pardey

A planned anchored just won’t work in the condtions, and it’s pretty disappointing. But maybe the alternate will be even better!

🎧 7 Tips for Choosing Your Cruising Boat

Published on September 16, 2018; last updated on December 13, 2023 by Lin Pardey

Tips for choosing a cruising boat

What is the most important piece of equipment you need on board a cruising boat? What length boat works best? These 7 tips will help you choose a cruising boat.

🎧Vegetarians on a Boat

Published on September 2, 2018; last updated on December 13, 2023 by Lin Pardey

Listen to Lin Pardey’s tips if you’re vegetarian, have vegetarian guests or want ideas for times when you’ve run out of meat.

🎧How to Store Eggs without Refrigeration

Published on August 19, 2018; last updated on December 13, 2023 by Lin Pardey

Veteran cruiser Lin Pardey shares five ways to keep eggs fresh without refrigeration and provides other tips for keeping them the longest possible time.

Veteran cruiser Lin Pardey shares five ways to keep eggs fresh without refrigeration and provides other tips for keeping them the longest possible time.

🎧Can You Buy Safety?

Published on August 5, 2018; last updated on December 13, 2023 by Lin Pardey

Every potential blue water voyaqger, every sailor who wants to go beyond the sight of land is faced with the need to evaluate which, use it only in emergency, gear they should carry.

Every potential blue water voyager, every sailor who wants to go beyond the sight of land is faced with the need to evaluate which, use it only in emergency, gear they should carry.

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Carolyn Shearlock

Hi! I'm Carolyn Shearlock. My husband and I have been living on a boat and cruising over 17 years and 13,000 miles, first on a Tayana 37 monohull and then on a 34' Gemini catamaran. Along the way, we sold pretty much everything we owned (twice!), gained a great boat dog, had a bunch of wonderful times and some adventures . . . and learned a ton about what does and doesn't work!

      

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If you want to stay longer than 90 days, you’ll need a long stay visa for French Polynesia. Here’s everything you need to know to apply.

Coast Guard Documentation – Need to Knows

July 24, 2025 By Carolyn Shearlock

Is your boat documented by the Coast Guard? Should it be? Here’s what you need to know about documenting your cruising boat.

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