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For over a year now we have been talking about it fairly casually : One day we will leave to go explore the world while cruising. Furthermore, we have been writing this blog for three years now, and brought more seriousness to our potential departure this past December and officially in January. Although at this [...] You learn thing and you forget them, you know it exists but for an easier ride you forget them. Bad Bad bad…. Well this was the case for electrical wiring on a 12 volt system for me. I knew that table existed, I knew fusing requirement were set up for a good reason. But [...] These days are rare and far in between, but yesterday was not the day we would have chosen to be anchored around here.
During our daily walk, the winds were clocking at 35 knots and we could clearly see the white caps even with a limited fetch. As we say [...] My last project was done and the boat cleaned up, so one more thing left to do. You got it!! start a new one and mess it up, again…. On top of the list for this Sunday: the anchor wash down and changing the fridge’s pump from sea water to tank water. In preparation [...] For those of you,who forgot it and didn’t plan or simply tried to find a lame excuse. Svletitgo yet again found a great solution for next year. You may not have the choice, actually and your partner might haves signed up for you already! Where will you be in 2013? The Bouvet Guyane race [...] It’s our second winter as boat owners and we can feel some light bulbs coming on. Our first storm season, we were oblivious to the dangers around us and lived in perfect happiness in a blinding world! Indeed it pretty much summarizes what we went through and survived without any major lessons/mistakes learnt. Albeit a [...] Once in a while you stumble across a blog that makes total cruiser sense. It teaches you a thing or two and goes a little deeper than: “it’s sunny, we are having fun but the wind was on the nose”. Today was such a day when I discovered this French website Logos. No commercial [...] 40 knots average 47.7 knots gust, we can say it’s windy in the marina! We had been prepared for a storm coming from the North albeit not from the south. And that what we have been getting today, the boat is not docked the right way, so let us be hopeful that our solar [...] In the recent weeks, we had a few examples of professional sailors who were not on their top behaviour and for that matter didn’t show the best example to the kids! Like Francoise Arthaud falling off her boat while answering a call, to top it all up she was not wearing a life jacket and [...] Often you ask yourself, is my knowledge correct? Is this really the way to do it? What are the exact numbers? And usually you don’t have a source to find the exact result. Today the lagoon and more generally multihull skippers are in luck, Twixter owner have compiled a superb webpage with an engineer [...] |
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