Being prepared for offshore cruising not only means having gear to handle heavy weather, but also gaining confidence to face your first storm at sea.
🎧8 Tips for the Night Watch
Lin Pardey provides eight tips for the on-watch passagemaker to ensure that all is well with the boat and the other crew stay well-rested.
🎧13 Tips for Cooking & Eating Meals Underway
Cooking — or even just eating — while you’re underway is a bit of a learned skill. Quicken your climb up the learning curve with thirteen of the most important things I’ve discovered to make it easier and safer.
Safety Checks
A chilling story from a reader brings home an important point: never assume your safety gear works. Check it. Frequently.
🎧The Joys of Sailing
Just because you’re an accomplished sailor doesn’t mean you don’t have things to learn. Join Lin Pardey as she takes us along with her on an afternoon spent messing about on Felicity, her Hereshoff 12.5.
Calculate Your Boat Fuel Range
Knowing how to calculate your boat fuel range — your true range, not the theoretical one that the manufacturer tells you — is critical for any trip.
🎧On Watch
Being on watch at sea can be calm and collected, spiced with adrenaline-pumping frights, and filled with busy activity. Listen as Lin Pardey shares on-watch moments that encompass all these moods.
🎧You’ll Never Be Ready
Making the transition from “preparing to cruise” to actually cruising can be tough. It’s filled with so many unknowns! Tips for casting off the dock lines!
🎧Sleeping on Passage
Sleeping on passage is essential for safety and enjoyment. But being able to do it is harder. Tips to make sleeping well easier!
🎧Medical Issues & Cruising
Medical issues can really throw a monkey wrench into cruising plans and schedules. A framework for deciding when to continue on and when to stay.