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Cruising Progress Report: How are we doing? Here are the key areas in my master plan to get the Can Opener ready for blue water cruising... ...and a quick check on how he's progressed through that plan since August 2011: The Plan to Get Fit - done! The Plan to Get Social - done! The Plan to Get Trained - ongoing! The Plan to Find a Boa...
Reviewed - Book the Captain just finished snoozing on: Sail Away! *, by Paul and Sheryl Shard How do you provision and collect inventory to prepare a yacht to cruise - and what's the cruising life really like? Topics Covered secrets of successful cruises the cost of cruising outfitting provisioning maintaining inventory cooking at sea personal c...
Ocean Passage Making presentation at the Red Tabby Can't go under it. Can't go over it . Can't go around... T he First Mate and I tripped lightly last week down to the Red Tabby, eyes aglow, to listen to a presentation chock full of ocean crossing tips. Here are the... ...Highlights Charts You need to have: tons of paper charts for th...
Destination Dreamin' - Beware of people who dislike cats. - Irish Proverb Hmm. The Irish do seem like good solid cruising folk. Destination Dreamin' of Ireland And today seems like the right kind of day to consider great places to go sailing and cruising around... Ireland.... --Captain Cat (transcribed by the Can Opener) Destination Dreamin' Next: France - Destination D...
Steps in managing clothing inventory How did this many pairs of jeans happen to the First Mate?? Short answer: Something about being a vegetarian (which he isn't). The Can opener's reply was a bit unclear and muffled through a mouthful of smoked mussels... In fact, I'm not convinced he really needs any clothes at all. I don't. Ho...
More team building - this time with our new Regular Cruising Crew Y et another tasty evening out, this time with the new weekend cruising crew we've been invited to join. If this keeps up it's going to offset all the good work I've been putting the Can Opener through to get him in shape. This crew sails on a 35 ft Baltic and the goal is coa...
T he paperwork's done and it's official - we're now full members of the Red Tabby Yacht Club! We joined in October as temporary members and loved the sailing events, opportunities and Welcome Cocktail Party. It's certainly a friendly crowd round here, full of enthusiasm and those who love sailing as much as we do. There's something about a m...
Reviewed - Links at bottom below post Book the Captain just finished snoozing on: Sell Up & Sail: Taking the Ulysses Option, by Bill and Laurel Cooper How do you move from dreaming about cruising to actually doing it - and what's it really like to live aboard a yacht? Best Part The authors' dry delivery style is quite engaging. You get a st...
T his past weekend, the crew for the Spain-Greece delivery and their significant others met up at the skipper's 500 year old farm house for a spot of team building. I took the Can Opener. We met, caroused and cooked together in a beautiful old kitchen. A bit of hiking (and a bit of teaching the skipper's odious dogs a thing or two). Some passage p...
Steps in managing clothing inventory How did this many pairs of jeans happen to the First Mate?? Short answer: Something about being a vegetarian (which he isn't). The Can opener's reply was a bit unclear and muffled through a mouthful of smoked mussels... In fact, I'm not convinced he really needs any clothes at all. I don't. Ho...
First steps in provisioning and managing food inventory How did this many bottles of beans and spices happen to us?? Short answer: An unspecified number of failed attempts by the Can Opener to become a vegetarian... You don't just buy the beans and rice, mate. To be a vegetarian, you have to eat them too. Simultaneously, more than a few of ou...
Destination Dreamin' - Destination Dreamin' of Ibiza --Captain Cat (transcribed by the Can Opener) Destination Dreamin' Next: France - Destination Dreamin' Next: The Cruising Irish Previously: Menorca - Destination Dreamin'
Can It Be Done? - What are we doing? Here 's the decision tree I 'm training the Can Opener to use on his books... Has the Can Opener read the book? If, yes... is it sentimental? childhood book gift favourite book or actually written by a friend? Or is it a reference text? sailing finance language text or dictionary travel guide ... Sentiment and refere...
Reviewed - Links at bottom below post Book the Captain just finished snoozing on: World Cruising Survey, by Jimmy Cornell Who goes cruising and where do they go? What do they sail? What's it like to participate in the Atlantic Cruising Rally? Best Part It's always good to hear from experience and this book is a survey of the experiences of hundreds of cruise...
