Jimmy Cornell: What It Costs to Cruise
When it comes to predicting the cost of bluewater voyaging, where you sail and how well you prepare your boat are the key factors.
When it comes to predicting the cost of bluewater voyaging, where you sail and how well you prepare your boat are the key factors.
The main saloon of our friends’ Beneteau 461 Oceanis, Chere, is typical of the type: bright, spacious, airy, heavy on the feng shui. The perfect place, in other words, for entertaining guests and enjoying commodious living aboard and cruising. I’m pretty certain Beneteau’s interior designers didn’t consider that these same attributes would also make it an ideal science lab, but there you are.
Michael Robertson takes a humorous look at the different approaches to boat projects by some well-known cruisers.
Spring is finally here, and it’s time to launch the new catamaran.
We’re fast approaching the two-year mark from the day we embarked on this adventure. Several times I’ve written about our concern for the girls’ wellbeing, growing up on a transient cruising boat. Our concern can’t be helped and conclusions are difficult to draw because the calculus is not straightforward.
While we’re living the cruising life, Windy and I are raising two little Americans who aren’t growing up in the United States—will they ever have pop-culture fluency?
Sailing to the Bahamas on a 54-foot catamaran? Sign me up!
Despite the inherent obstacles wannabe cruising families face, I think the real barriers are diminishing and that the number who do cast off the dock lines will continue to grow.
A reality of cruising is that cuts and scrapes happen. A lot. If you have trouble keeping your bandages stuck, try this tip!
I took over bread-making duty about six months ago and sometime this past month, I realized…I had arrived.
Liveaboard families often discover that there’s a fine line between teaching kids safety near the water—and just freaking them out.
Sometime it’s shocking how small the cruising community feels.
When it comes to predicting the cost of bluewater voyaging, where you sail and how well you prepare your boat are the key factors.
The main saloon of our friends’ Beneteau 461 Oceanis, Chere, is typical of the type: bright, spacious, airy, heavy on the feng shui. The perfect place, in other words, for entertaining guests and enjoying commodious living aboard and cruising. I’m pretty certain Beneteau’s interior designers didn’t consider that these same attributes would also make it an ideal science lab, but there you are.
Michael Robertson takes a humorous look at the different approaches to boat projects by some well-known cruisers.
Spring is finally here, and it’s time to launch the new catamaran.
We’re fast approaching the two-year mark from the day we embarked on this adventure. Several times I’ve written about our concern for the girls’ wellbeing, growing up on a transient cruising boat. Our concern can’t be helped and conclusions are difficult to draw because the calculus is not straightforward.
While we’re living the cruising life, Windy and I are raising two little Americans who aren’t growing up in the United States—will they ever have pop-culture fluency?
Sailing to the Bahamas on a 54-foot catamaran? Sign me up!
Despite the inherent obstacles wannabe cruising families face, I think the real barriers are diminishing and that the number who do cast off the dock lines will continue to grow.
A reality of cruising is that cuts and scrapes happen. A lot. If you have trouble keeping your bandages stuck, try this tip!
I took over bread-making duty about six months ago and sometime this past month, I realized…I had arrived.
Liveaboard families often discover that there’s a fine line between teaching kids safety near the water—and just freaking them out.
Sometime it’s shocking how small the cruising community feels.
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