Baby On Board: Keeping a Baby At Bay While Passagemaking
Here are some things that worked for us to keep our baby a happy little camper on the high seas.
Here are some things that worked for us to keep our baby a happy little camper on the high seas.
They say if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. Well, we say: if you can’t leave ’em, ENJOY ’em.
In the last weeks of her sixth year, Frances’s mind was focused and consumed with one thing: the bake sale she would organize to help
The Zartman family aboard Ganymede ends their yearlong stay in Newport, Rhode Island, and is cruising once again.
A look at how five families broke free and went cruising.
When re-uniting with another person from the lucky minority of live-aboard sailors, their are some formalities that simply are not necessary.
We did a lot right during this passage; some of it intentional, some of it serendipitous… but here is what we learned and tips I can share based on our experience venturing offshore and covering 800 miles over the course of five days, non-stop.
That’s “rest and relaxation” in old time pirate speak, in case you didn’t know….we’re in the BVI, after all.
Now even though this is like black magic to the crew of Del Viento, I totally acknowledge that receiving weather faxes via short-wave radio is absolutely nothing to most other cruisers–basic, basic stuff.
“Ready to go yet?” I heard the question over and over today. Fair enough—we’ve been ‘getting ready to cruise’ ever since leaving the boatyard several blog posts ago, and have Tuesday as our target sailing date.
This trip was absolutely something to savor and enjoy. As it turns out, all my worries were for naught.
When Fatty passes _Wild Card’_s tiller to her new owner, he discovers that his trusty vessel has fallen into just the right set of hands.
Here are some things that worked for us to keep our baby a happy little camper on the high seas.
They say if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. Well, we say: if you can’t leave ’em, ENJOY ’em.
In the last weeks of her sixth year, Frances’s mind was focused and consumed with one thing: the bake sale she would organize to help
The Zartman family aboard Ganymede ends their yearlong stay in Newport, Rhode Island, and is cruising once again.
A look at how five families broke free and went cruising.
When re-uniting with another person from the lucky minority of live-aboard sailors, their are some formalities that simply are not necessary.
We did a lot right during this passage; some of it intentional, some of it serendipitous… but here is what we learned and tips I can share based on our experience venturing offshore and covering 800 miles over the course of five days, non-stop.
That’s “rest and relaxation” in old time pirate speak, in case you didn’t know….we’re in the BVI, after all.
Now even though this is like black magic to the crew of Del Viento, I totally acknowledge that receiving weather faxes via short-wave radio is absolutely nothing to most other cruisers–basic, basic stuff.
“Ready to go yet?” I heard the question over and over today. Fair enough—we’ve been ‘getting ready to cruise’ ever since leaving the boatyard several blog posts ago, and have Tuesday as our target sailing date.
This trip was absolutely something to savor and enjoy. As it turns out, all my worries were for naught.
When Fatty passes _Wild Card’_s tiller to her new owner, he discovers that his trusty vessel has fallen into just the right set of hands.
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