SailBlogs Member Group - Blue Water / Circumnavigators

Hi everyone, My son is 23 Years old. He has just finished his Day Skippers ticket. He is looking for an opportunity to crew in order to build sea miles to progress to his next ticket. Inbox me or better still mail me on cycletronc1 at hotmail dot com if you have a berth available. Many thanks Shaun

Hi everyone, My son is 23 Years old. He has just finished his Day Skippers ticket. He is looking for an opportunity to crew in order to build sea miles to progress to his next ticket. Inbox me or better still mail me on cycletronc1 at hotmail dot com if you have a berth available. Many thanks Shaun

Has anyone on this site tried going thru the Red Sea lately? My Cal 30 Saltaire was boarded by the Somali Board of Tourism on March 5, 2004, and I swore never to return. Things any better now?

We've been taking in wekend trips to Catalina in SoCal since I finished the circumnav. But Marilu and I are getting the itch to buy a bigger boat and do the South Pacific again, but this time to see the places we missed.

On our shakedown cruise to Alaska, then heading south for a pacific crossing.

We started in Vancouver in 2009, currently in Valdivia, Chile and preparing to continue south.

I am recently retired and looking to gain some bluewater experience. I would like to crew for someone who needs an additional crew member for a bluewater passage. I teach both the basic and advanced celestial navigation classes for the USPS and would be willing to teach anyone onboard during the passage. A motivated person should be able to take sun sights and get a reliable running fix on a series of sun sights after 2-3 days of practice. Some additional instruction should allow star, planet, and moon sights to be taken with confidence. One of the nice things about being able to take moon sights is that the moon and sun are often available at the same time. This gives a "fix," as opposed to a "running fix," and is more reliable. You can also get a fix by taking star/planet sights at twilight. I have two high quality metal sextants, so you wouldn't even need your own sextant. If anyone doubts the desirability of knowing celestial navigation for bluewater cruising, look up book called "Red Sky in Mourning."

We are brand spanking new cruisers who have been spending our first year of cruising in the Vancouver Island region and head South this summer. For those of you who have been out cruising more than two years, please consider letting me interview you for the IWAC site (some members I see have already participated!): http://interviewwithacruiser.blogspot.com/ For those of you who have been out cruising fewer than two years, please consider a self-interview you for the Newly Salted site: http://newlysalted.blogspot.com/p/get-interviewed.html

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Hi from Love Song. We left the USA in 2000 and are still having a blast. We plan on doing the big circle in the Pacific this year before continuing west, and around. We are currently in Fiji, then RMI, and then Seattle/ San Deiego. Then back around to Tahiti, and west to???