Category: Preparing for Cruising Life
Preparing for Cruising Life begins right from the start when we thought about buying a boat, and living afloat seemed like a dream. This category describes the moving parts we lashed together to pack up our house, learn to sail, shop for a bluewater catamaran, refit our St Francis 50, and launch our family circumnavigation adventure.

Great Scots, 20 knots!

Cracking open our life raft (with video)

Test sailing SV Aphrodite

Organizing our boat with skipper, Mark Burton

Motoring in Tampa Bay

Medical Provisioning for Cruising: A Year’s Supply of Medication—Then What?

Hotter than Hades here in Ottawa

Liveaboard cruisers: those damn hippies

