With this website we hope to share our joy in living the cruising life and to provide information that could be useful to other cruisers.
To the left are some buttons that will take you to: a description of our background, our two boats, and our two voyages around the world, some details on and an opportunity to buy Beth's three books {The Voyager's Handbook, Blue Horizons, Following Seas}, some useful links and FAQs, and a gallery of voyaging photos.
Below are just a few photos, to entice you and to demonstrate the wide range of experiences the cruising life offers. We hope you enjoy your visit to our site.
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Quick News
- Still drafts, but some "articles" I am working on: Survival Sailing, Dewatering Pumps, Jacklines and Tethers, and Spectra Lifelines
- We will have an Iridium InReach on board this summer for some testing. The position map is at https://share.delorme.com/EvansStarzinger. I am certainly not going to have it on all the time, but will aim to do one position per day (if I remember)
- Leaving the dock on sunday the 31st.
- Hawk is getting ready to head North again. We will try to keep the blog updated but have to admit we get distracted by life and have realized we just don't have a "twitter" mindset.
- Powerpoint presentation I just gave on three recent accidents (Bounty, Low Speed Chase, & Aegean).
- There are loads of good free grib viewers, but until now I had not found a good free routing program. However I have recently been playing with Virtual winds and it does both (first getting and viewing gribs, and then creating an 'optimize route given the winds) quite well. Its not as powerful as some of the expensive racing programs (like Expedition) but does pretty much all that a cruising sailor might want. Its been created by a bunch of French open source developers, so the support forum is primarily in French, but the program does come with an English language version/help file.
- Drug list required in Vendee Globe medical kits
- In a discussion about the bounty sinking I saw the following Hole Size and flooding table
- Barograph and wind speeds thru Sandy
- Good summary of the state of Florida's anchoring and live aboard regulations
- Added two new medical documents to the Articles page (there are several other medical articles there already) World Health Organization (WHO) Medical guide for Ships (5mb), Open 40 transatlantic kit
- In case anyone is looking for education/training material in
order to follow-up/implement the Low Speed Chase report
recommendations . . . . there is a free National
Weather service on-line seminar specifically on Shallow
Water Wave behavior at:
http://www.meted.ucar.edu/marine/SWW/
This seminar brings appendix D alive in a professionally constructed interactive seminar, and is more complete and 'sophisticated' than appendix D was able to be, including aspects of wave orientation, refraction, current, etc. to explain shallow water wave behavior.
There are also several other more advanced wave seminars, and tons of weather training, available on MetEd (all FREE!)
San Francisco Sailing
Golden Gate Bridge
Castro Harbor
Taumotus Anchorage
Early Snow
Puffins
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SEA FEVER
I MUST down to the seas again,
to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking
And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking.
I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
I must down to the seas again to the vagrant gypsy life.
To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.