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Badger Sunscreen Review
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Read more: Badger Sunscreen ReviewA review of the best sunscreen we have found for boating.
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Coastal Overnights—They’re Tough But They Get The Job Done
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Read more: Coastal Overnights—They’re Tough But They Get The Job DoneAfter spending much of the last four winters in Maine and Nova Scotia refitting Morgan’s Cloud, John and I agreed that a winter in the Bahamas would be just the ticket. So when the blazing fall colours and chilly temperatures of early October indicated that Penobscot Bay, Maine wasn’t going to remain the balmy summer […]
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Q&A: Issues With Teak Deck Replacement On A Metal Boat
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Read more: Q&A: Issues With Teak Deck Replacement On A Metal BoatQuestion: We are hoping to draw on your experience with teak deck replacement on our steel sailboat…Despite our initial plan of just stemming the leaks for the short term until we sailed somewhere fun, they are just too bad and the deck has to go next spring/summer. While going through the process of finding someone […]
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Back on Board
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Read more: Back on BoardOur last extended cruise ended in the fall of 2003 when John and I hauled Morgan’s Cloud in Maine so that we could spend the winter at our house in Bermuda. We had a big decision to make: If we wanted to refit Morgan’s Cloud and keep on cruising, the house would have to be […]
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Q&A: Diamonds Are A Woman’s Best Friend!
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Read more: Q&A: Diamonds Are A Woman’s Best Friend!Question: Three friends and I are outfitting my Skye 51′ for a five-year circumnavigation and we are replacing the old teak decks…I have heard many more pros than cons to Treadmaster and I would like to know your honest opinion on installation, upkeep, durability and general contentment with the product. Any input that you care […]
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Q&A: On Being A Newbie
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Read more: Q&A: On Being A NewbieQuestion: I’m planning a five-year circumnavigation. While I grew up as a live aboard cruiser, two of my crew have limited sailing experience. We have cruised the Chesapeake Bay extensively together and both are becoming good seamen but neither has been on a blue water passage. Phyllis, I understand that you had little or no […]
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Tef-Gel
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Q&A: Why White?
0 CommentsReading Time: < 1 minuteFreeRead more: Q&A: Why White?Question: Why did you paint Morgan’s Cloud white? I thought she looked better painted dark blue.
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Treadmaster Deck Covering
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Steiner Binoculars
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Read more: Steiner BinocularsSteiner is one of the few companies left (it seems) that is still building good quality equipment and then standing behind it. We have had the same pair of Steiner Commander RS2000 binoculars for over 20 years.
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Loctite
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A Cruise Of The Outer Bay of Fundy 2007
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Read more: A Cruise Of The Outer Bay of Fundy 2007What about a circumnavigation of the Outer Bay of Fundy?
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The Journey Is The Reward
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Read more: The Journey Is The RewardThough John and I always feel totally disconnected with our destination after flying somewhere, when sailing from place to place on Morgan’s Cloud we feel like active participants in the small bit of the world surrounding us.
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Discomfort
4 CommentsReading Time: < 1 minuteFreeRead more: DiscomfortDiscomfort is a bad word in our society. Our houses, our cars and our public buildings shelter us so totally from the environment that we rarely feel cold or hot or wet or windblown and, unless it’s a hurricane or tsunami, the weather very seldom stops us from doing what we want when we want.
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Champagne And Polar Bears: Romance In The Arctic
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Read more: Champagne And Polar Bears: Romance In The ArcticApproaching the lee shore of Nordaustlandet (the uninhabited—or so we thought—icecap-domed island separated from Spitsbergen by Hinlopen Strait) in a building gale in early August of 2002, was intimidating to say the least.
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Q&A: Winter Boat Storage In The North
0 CommentsReading Time: 2 minutesFreeRead more: Q&A: Winter Boat Storage In The NorthQuestion: We are thinking of buying a 70′, 55 ton, steel motorsailer which we want to fix up and cruise on for 4 months of the year. We would be starting out on the east coast of the US and are contemplating going via Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Greenland to Northern Europe. We would have […]
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What Happened To Teamwork?
0 CommentsReading Time: 2 minutesFreeRead more: What Happened To Teamwork?Eleven years ago I met John and started scaling the voyaging learning curve. Since I was starting from scratch, it often seemed to me that the learning curve was vertical.
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True Grit
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Read more: True GritI’m going to make a confession here: I think brightwork is beautiful. However, since I’m the one that ends up maintaining it—that’s because John insists I’m so much better at it than he is, which is a rotten trick and one I fall for regularly—I also believe it doesn’t belong on our boat.
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Shurflo Pumps
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Ideal Windlass
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McMaster-Carr
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Read more: McMaster-CarrDuring this last refit, we had custom wood bezels with embedded helicoils built to fit permanently around the cabin ports (we’ll discuss these further in our Refit Series). During cold weather, we screw Plexiglas covers to the bezels and voila…no condensation! However, after installing them we realized that the little chains with small bars at […]
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Fear
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Read more: FearWhen people, predominately non-sailors, find out that John and I live on our sailboat and cross oceans (well, one ocean—seems we just can’t shake ourselves loose from the North Atlantic), the thing they most often ask is, “Aren’t you afraid out there?”
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QA&: Preparing For A Trans-Atlantic As Crew
0 CommentsReading Time: 2 minutesFreeRead more: QA&: Preparing For A Trans-Atlantic As CrewQuestion: I have perhaps a total of 40 hours sailing the New England coast. I have been invited by an experienced sailor to sail from Newburyport to Ireland in 2008 on a 32’ boat. My question is, what could I do between now and then to better prepare myself as a useful crew member?
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Northeast Coast Of Newfoundland 2005
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Read more: Northeast Coast Of Newfoundland 2005A number of our friends have written that they have missed our news letters, which have been few and far between lately. Their reminders, plus the quickly approaching holiday season, have galvanized us into doing something about our long silence (due to a very busy schedule, not apathy!).
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A Prairie Woman Goes To Sea
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Read more: A Prairie Woman Goes To SeaMany sailing writers claim that both people in a couple should have all the skills required to voyage before setting out, but is that really practical, or even desirable? Phyllis says not, and explains why.
