The Offshore Voyaging Reference Site
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McMaster-Carr
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Read more: McMaster-CarrDuring this last refit, we had custom wood bezels with embedded helicoils built to fit permanently around the cabin ports (we’ll discuss these further in our Refit Series). During cold weather, we screw Plexiglas covers to the bezels and voila…no condensation! However, after installing them we realized that the little chains with small bars at […]
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Fear
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Read more: FearWhen people, predominately non-sailors, find out that John and I live on our sailboat and cross oceans (well, one ocean—seems we just can’t shake ourselves loose from the North Atlantic), the thing they most often ask is, “Aren’t you afraid out there?”
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QA&: Preparing For A Trans-Atlantic As Crew
0 CommentsReading Time: 2 minutesFreeRead more: QA&: Preparing For A Trans-Atlantic As CrewQuestion: I have perhaps a total of 40 hours sailing the New England coast. I have been invited by an experienced sailor to sail from Newburyport to Ireland in 2008 on a 32’ boat. My question is, what could I do between now and then to better prepare myself as a useful crew member?
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Northeast Coast Of Newfoundland 2005
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Read more: Northeast Coast Of Newfoundland 2005A number of our friends have written that they have missed our news letters, which have been few and far between lately. Their reminders, plus the quickly approaching holiday season, have galvanized us into doing something about our long silence (due to a very busy schedule, not apathy!).
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A Prairie Woman Goes To Sea
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Read more: A Prairie Woman Goes To SeaMany sailing writers claim that both people in a couple should have all the skills required to voyage before setting out, but is that really practical, or even desirable? Phyllis says not, and explains why.
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Shetlands And Iceland, 2003
0 CommentsReading Time: 3 minutesFreeRead more: Shetlands And Iceland, 2003Well, we finally made the break from Norway and leaving was as hard as we expected it to be. Especially since we left the coast at Ålesund, one of the most beautiful of Norwegian cities and especially beautiful in the long golden light of late evening with a perfect rainbow framing the city thrown in […]
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Leaving Norway, 2003
0 CommentsReading Time: 2 minutesFreeRead more: Leaving Norway, 2003Our last newsletter ended with our decision to spend a second winter in Tromsø. What a good idea that was: We cemented the friendships we made our first winter and made new friends; we improved our skiing, though we are still nowhere as good as the Norwegians; and we realized that Tromsø, Norway, and Norwegians, […]
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Lofoten And Vesterålen, 2001
0 CommentsReading Time: 3 minutesFreeRead more: Lofoten And Vesterålen, 2001Well, Morgan’s Cloud came to Tromsø, and so did winter. We tied up at our winter berth last Saturday, October 20th, and were greeted with 6″ of snow over the next several days. Needless to say, we were hoping to have at least a week’s grace to get the boat ready for winter before the […]
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Arrival In Norway, 2001
3 CommentsReading Time: 2 minutesFreeRead more: Arrival In Norway, 2001We are finally in Norway after 14 months of trying—we initially sent off our application for temporary residence in May of 2000 and we received our permission, ten months later, in March of 2001, just as we were leaving our winter home at St. Katharine Dock, London, England.
