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 »
U.S. may intervene to free captive cruisers. Crew members identified.
Posted in boating blogs, cruising, disappearance, Hijacked, offshore sailing, Safety & Security, sailing, world cruising, yacht, Yachting, tagged cruising, disappearance, Hijacked, hijacked boat, missing cruisers, missing sailor, S/V Quest, Safety & Security, sailing, Somali pirates, Southern California, world cruising, yacht, yacht | Tagged american yacht on February 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Scott and Jean Adam joined the Oz-Med section of the Blue Water Rally just before Christmas and had been sailing with the Rally from Phuket as far as Mumbai. Quest had taken on two well-known rally participants: Phyllis Mackay and Bob Riggle. However, she chose to take an independent route from Mumbai to Salalah, leaving the Rally on 15 February. All information is now being handled by the US Central Command and their spokesman in Dubai.”
Somali Pirates Take Another Cruising Yacht With Four Americans Onboard
Posted in cruising, disappearance, Hijacked, missing sailor, Safety & Security, sailing, world cruising, yacht, tagged american yacht, cruising, hijacked boat, missing cruisers, S/V Quest, Somali pirates, Southern California, world cruising, yacht on February 19, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Jean and Scott Adam, cruising on the sailing vessel Quest, a Davidson 58 Pilot House Sloop, are an American couple from Southern California who have been sailing the globe for the past six years. Their cruising website states that The Quest started an “around-the-world” trip in mid December of 2004 after sailing her to the States from New Zealand in 2002. They were on a “Bible Mission,” bring bibles to out-of-the-way places around the globe.
San Blas Cruiser Dissapearance Update: Fugitive Apprehended in Darien
Posted in boating, cruising, offshore sailing, Panama, Safety & Security, Sailboats, sailing, Vessel Lost, world cruising, yacht, tagged boating, Central America, cruising, Darien, disappearance, FBI, Islands, mass murder, murder, Panama, Panama-Guide, Safety & Security, sailboat, Sailboats, sailing, San Blas Islands, suspect apprehended, Vessel Lost, Windancer, world cruising on February 16, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Javier Martin, the top suspect in two recent murders of cruisers in Panama, was arrested in a small town named Santa Fe which is along the Inter-American highway in the Darien section of Panama. He was most likely headed to Colombia. Reports state that Martin had been staying in a hostle there, registered under the alias of “A. North”, assuming the identity of Don North, whose middle name is Arthur. When arrested, he was in possession of a shotgun and two handguns, a large sum of cash (over $13,000), and Don’s credit card.
Turkey expects 31 million tourists in 2011. See it on a Star Clipper Cruise
Posted in clipper ships, cruising, mediterranean sea, tall ships, Travel & Leisure, Uncategorized, world cruising, tagged adventure sailing, clipper ships, cruising, sailing, Star Clipper Cruises, Star Flyer, Turkey, world cruising on January 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s the real thing! Tall ship cruise operator Star Clippers operates three of the world’s most authentic, head-turning ships; the majestic four-masted, 170-passenger Star Flyer and Star Clipper and the magnificent flagship, five-masted, 228-passenger Royal Clipper. The Star Flyer began its’ maiden season in Central America last November, in Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua, where [...]
Star Clipper Cruises in Central America – Experience nature unbounded
Posted in boating, Central America, clipper ships, cruising, Environment, History, Panama, sailing, tall ships, Travel & Leisure, Uncategorized, whales & dolphins, world cruising, tagged adventure sailing, clipper ships, Costa Rica, cruising, Nicaragua, offshore sailing, Panama, sailing vacation, Star Flyer, world cruising on January 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
If you dream of adventure sailing on a tall ship through the wilds of Central America, anchoring in pristine coves filled with dolphins, whales and birds- not other boats or cruise ships, then you need to book a cruise with Star Clipper Cruises. I just returned from this amazing itinerary!
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!
What are the Seven Seas?
Posted in blogging, boating, clipper ships, Education, History, Language & Culture, Oceans, sailing, Yachting, tagged "sailing the seven seas", adventure sailing, clipper ships, cruising, debate, Education, History, Kipling, Nancy Birnbaum, sailing, seas, Seven Seas, SSCA, world cruising, Yachting on December 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Seven Seas are referred to in the literature of the ancient Hindus, Chinese, Persians, Romans and other nations. In each case, the term simply referred to different bodies of water. Sometimes it even referred to mythical seas. To the Persians, the Seven Seas were the streams forming the Oxus River; the Hindus used the term for the bodies of water in the Punjab. There is a group of salt-water lagoons that separated Venice, Italy from the open sea, that the Romans called septem maria, the Latin phrase for Seven Seas.
Still the debate continues. Even the renowned Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution got it wrong…
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