Here’s a fun adventure. Join us in Diverse San Francisco with (near) Calamities in California. We had just purchased our new (to us) boat. If you prefer to listen to this story, click here for Turning Your Cruising Dreams into Reality Podcasts. It crept stealthily, silently blanketing everything in its path. It looked soft, but […]
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Here are the Navigation Course Full Content Details – each topic is video learning, step-by-step. Hit play, sit back and absorb the techniques and then practice yourself. Bite-sized: (scroll down on this page) We are pleased to say you can now sample and tackle one section at a time. With 15 bite-sized sections, plus a
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When we launch our small motorboat we do everything we remember then cast our eye over our checklist. Check List for Small Recreational Vessel Owners Here’s a detailed check List for Small Recreational Vessel Owners, read below or print out check list for motorboats if you’d like a copy to adapt to your boat/crew. It takes
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Here are a few common errors when using GPS, don’t just turn it on and go – complete some checks first. Common Errors when using GPS Offset Error: A position fixing error can occur when utlising your GPS with older charts. Read your chart and ensure any offset is applied (see ‘Learn Marine Navigation – Why?’
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Learn Marine Navigation – Why? I asked Noel why he did all his Maritime Courses, his response was… “I wouldn’t go to sea without knowing everything!” Of course, anything to do with boating is a continual learning exercise, so here’s some basic info on why learning how to Navigate properly is important and why we
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We love chatting about all things boating, so we’d like to welcome you to our first Video Podcast: Cast Off With Confidence. Viki Moore is an amazing woman, altruistic, fun, energetic and inspiriting. She must be the only person we’ve spoken to that has seven jobs but has just found some more time! She is
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Last jewel in the ornamental circumnavigation ring: A Trip to Niue – A Jewel in the Pacific Ocean If you’d like to listen to this on a podcast, click here. “If I don’t go right now, I’m not going to do it”, I can feel the tremor in my voice, I hope the rest of
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Maritime training is a personal thing. It can also overwhelm, don’t you think? Especially at the beginning. The trick is to find a Maritime Trainer YOU are comfortable with, but how do you do that? Call up the training organisation and speak to the trainer. Invest in You You are going to spend money, you
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It’s amazing how five simple words really helped me in the early days of our cruising life: Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff Is it worth worrying about? Lumpy seas The wind getting up Waves and swell giving a bumpy ride Salt soggy cushions that just won’t dry! Doing the laundry in cold water by hand
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This was one of the first questions I asked Noel when we were searching for our first boat: What’s so great about cruising anyway? At this point in my cruising life, I found the cruising world overwhelming. Noel’s response was quite simply: ‘getting to port’. And while this is somewhat amusing, it actually is truthful.
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