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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...
O kay. This is the beginning of a loooong project... There are two things at work here ...that have caused the Can Opener's current amazing-amounts-of-paper situation. One is that if you put two pieces of paper together on a desk - they breed at a speed that makes the Creationist version of evolution (it aaaaall happened in only 7 day...
S omehow over the long years the Can Opener has accumulated insane amounts of stuff. And it's gotta go. It's mostly books, clothes, CDs, sports equipment and a few sticks of furniture. And paper records - records that stretch from here to forever: taxes, bank statements, photos, more photos... The kind of stuff that takes forever to go throu...
Waterfalls at Vanuatu T he last Spring lecture at Limehouse last night... Sigh. Henry and Kiki Capleton presented some highlights from their travels through Oceania: notes on the Palmerston Atoll, the Hobart 'Round Tasmania' Rally and some islands around Vanuatu. A inspiring presentation with spectacular photography. We left knowing even mor...
