10 Green Boating Tips for Cruisers, Alternative Cleansers, Protecting the Waterways 1. Choose Green Products: Look for the EPA-certified “Design for the Environment” DfE label, which assures you that the product has minimal environmental impact and is safer for the person using it. Benefit: Safer products. Reduce water pollution.
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Earth Day Top 10 Tips – Green Boating for Cruisers
Posted in boating, Boating Gear, Conservation, Cruising Resources, Environment, Fishing, Green Gear, Oceans, offshore sailing, plastic, Sailboats, sailing, Technology, world cruising, Yachting, tagged adventure sailing, Alternative Cleansers, Alternative Energy, blue water saling, boat gear, boating, conservation, EarthDay 2011, environmental catastrophe, fishing, Fuel, Green boating, Green Products, Green Sailing, Non-Toxic Boat Cleaning, offshore sailing, Protecting Waterways, Recycle, Sailboats, sailing, Sailors Without Borders, Solar, Technology, Wind Power, world cruising, Yacht to be Green, Yachting on April 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Day Two: Rolex Regatta St Thomas – awash in sun and sea!
Posted in boating, Islands, offshore sailing, Racing, Sailboats, sailing, yacht racing, Yachting, tagged blue water saling, caribbean, Rolex Regatta, Safe Passage Sailing, St.Thomas, USVI's on March 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The second day of racing here in St Thomas and I’m on a PowerCat (offered by Catamaran Adventures) press boat to better take in the action from an extremely close vantage point in the midst of all the racing action! It was a packed course with over 700 sailors on 77 teams filling the beautiful [...]
Dockwise Yacht Transport to deliver 20 cruising sailboats from Oman
Posted in cruising, Safety & Security, Sailboats, sailing, Travel, world cruising, Yachting, tagged blue water saling, cruising, Dockwise, DYT, Oman, Somali pirates, Yacht Transport, Yachting on March 15, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Dockwise Yacht Transport (DYT) will be orchestrating the transport of 20 private cruising yachts from Salalah, Oman to Marmaris, Turkey in April. The company, best known for its fleet of semi-submersible “float-on/float-off” yacht carriers, also coordinates lift-on/lift-off arrangements with third-party carriers, and logistically can fulfill almost any request, even if it is driven by unfortunate circumstances.
Top 10 Islands to Sail or Cruise To
Posted in cruising, Islands, Oceans, offshore sailing, Sailboats, sailing, South Pacific, Travel, Travel & Leisure, world cruising, Yachting, tagged adventure sailing, blue water saling, boating, CA, Channel Islands, cruising, Dominica, Galapagos, Islands, Ko Lipe, Maldives, offshore sailing, Panama, sailing, San Blas, Seychelles, Tasmania, Tierra del Fuego, Vanuatu, world cruising, Yachting on December 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Your Cruising Editor offers up this special list of the Top 10 Islands to Sail To so that you can bring in the New Year dreaming about your next cruise! Is your favorite island on the list? If not, please share it with us. Fairwinds & Happy Holidays!
Search Ends for Lost Caribbean 1500 Woman Sailor in Abacos
Posted in boating, Crew, cruising, offshore sailing, Safety & Security, Sailboats, sailing, Vessel Lost, yacht, Yachting, tagged Atlanta, Bahamas, blue water saling, Carib1500, Crew missing, cruising, environmental catastrophe, Laura Zekoll, Rally, sailing, Vessel Lost, women, world cruising, Yachting on November 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Black said, “with great sadness, we report that Rule 62, a Jeanneau 46DS, was swamped while attempting entry into the Bahamas. Richard and crew Laura Zekoll were washed overboard and recovered. The life raft was launched. Richard, Debra, Laura, and a fourth crew member, David Sheppard from Ellsworth, Maine entered the life raft with life jackets on and attempted to row it to safety.
Living Better With Less – the Cruising Lifestyle (hello NBC?)
Posted in boating, Conservation, cruising, Environment, offshore sailing, plastic, sailing, Travel, world cruising, Yachting, tagged better living, blue water saling, conservation, cruising, minimalist, NBC Nightly News, ocean health, reducing, sailing, world cruising, Yachting on November 9, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Last night I saw a report on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams called “Living Better With Les.” In the report they featured a few viewers who have “gotten back to basics” by ridding themselves of a lifetime of accumulated “stuff.” Could it be that Americans are starting to catch on? Is Consumerism on the [...]
The Whale…An amazing story!
Posted in Conservation, cruising, Environment, Oceans, whales & dolphins, tagged blue water saling, conservation, humpback, ocean health, oceans, save our seas, tangled, whales on October 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
If you read a recent front page story of the San Francisco Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth.
SSCA Needs Your Help To Bring Text Books to Bahamas
Posted in boating, cruising, Education, Humanitarian, offshore sailing, Sailboats, sailing, Travel, tagged Bahamas, blue water saling, boating, Books, cruising, Education, Humanitarian, Operation Bahamas Project, Sailboats, SSCA, world cruising on October 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Help the SSCA Humanitarian Effort! “Operation Bahamas Project” needs your help to provide each child in the Out Islands of the Bahamas with a retired Math Book. We have completed packing retired text books, workbooks, etc. for the schools in the Bahamas.
World Voyager Eric Forsyth Sails into Del Rey Beach to Present Video on Northwest Passage
Posted in cruising, offshore sailing, sailing, Travel, world cruising, Yachting, tagged blue water saling, cruising, Northwest Passage, sailing, SSCA, world cruising, Yachting on September 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
SEVEN SEAS* AWARD recipient Eric Forsyth will be showing the video of his recent circumnavigation of North America. The showing of Fiona Challenges the Northwest Passage will take place on Saturday, Oct. 16 at 3 p.m. at the Blue Anchor British Pub, 804 East Atlantic Ave, Delray Beach Beach, FL. 33483 Admission is free. The [...]
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