Many people probably think that what we are doing is unique. "You should write a book" is something that we have heard more than once. The truth is that the more research we do the more we see that taking off cruising in the tropics is actually fairly common. Perhaps not when compared to the masses but we certainly aren't doing anything groundbreaking. In fact yesterday Rebecca came across a Blog of a couple who are living at a Marina…
One of the boats we were seriously considering is a beautiful PDQ 36 currently located in Florida. Pacifica's owners have recently purchased a new, larger catamaran to continue their adventures a bit further off the beaten path. Because they now own two boats they are selling their PDQ for what we believe is an excellent price. She is tricked out exactly as we would like but sadly she is located in Florida which now doesn't jive with Plan B. David,…
During our Fast Track to Cruising course we were warned by our instructor against relying upon modern electronic navigational tools such as chart plotters and GPS. Each day before setting out from our anchorage we were required to plot our course on a nautical chart (map) using parallel rulers and dividers. Although we aren’t going to go so far as to try to learn to navigate via the stars with a sextant we do plan on keeping up with standard…
Would you believe we are still selling unneeded stuff on Kijiji? We still have over 50 different items for sale on that website, with a bunch of other things yet to be listed. But for every thing we get rid of we seem to replace it with something else we will need. In the book The Gentleman's Guide to Passages South the author helpfully lists all of the cruising guides that he recommends for the Caribbean. Cruising guides are books…
Several weeks ago we wrote about our Plan B which included delaying our departure to next summer to allow us to purchase a boat here locally. After weighing the pros and cons this strategy seems to have more and more merit. Pros: we can acquire a boat locally and learn her systems without pressure we will have more time to learn how to sail we will have more time to outfit the boat as we see fit we will have more time to…
We just added some more links to the Research page. The fun continues! Notice the necklace I am wearing in the above pic? It is called Hei Matau and is the M?ori symbol for "good luck over water." I purchased one for both Rebecca and I thinking that we could probably use all the help we can get! :)