Blogs: following others' adventures

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Blogs: following others\' adventures

I purposely put this into the PBO forum versus the YM forum cos I think we are more serious sailers/sailors. I'd like to follow some persons'/peoples' journeys across the high seas. Soooooo.......where do I go for links thereto? Spect there is a ybw link somewhere; pointers welcomed.
 
Re: Blogs: following others\' adventures

Hi - if you put sailing blogs into google you'll find lots. In particular yotbog.com and sailblogs.com host a lot of free blogs. Also cruisenews.net.

Tons of info on all of these though some are more sailory than others. (Ours, for instance, has our mothers as a key audience - at their request - so we're relentlessly cheery and don't talk about seasickness, anchoring dramas blah blah. But there's loads of port info on places we've been since Gib.) But lots of fun to surf them all.
 
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Apart from those already mentioned:

http://www.zialater.com/index.htm

http://www.hitrapia.co.uk/intro.htm#

http://www.morganscloud.com/techniques_tips/techniques.htm

http://yachtvigdis.wordpress.com/

I used Hitrapia and Zia blogs to get lots of general info about the trip across the med. In particular, as we werent too far behind Zia, I would email Joe occasionally to see how things worked at a particular anchorage.

Morgans Cloud is intrepid, so their tips and advice on gear is invaluable, and Dave and Elaine on Vigdis were in the Aeolian Islands when I found their blog, and we were just ahead of them in Taormina. Both of us are in Malta, although I missed their visit to Rogue one afternoon, and they had left Msida to be hauled out, when we called by their ex berth by the Black Pearl.

As well as being helpful with planning, I think if I met Zia, or Hitrapia, or Vigdis, we would feel like friends even before we met, which is amazing.

Hope this helps,

Richard
 
Re: Blogs: following others\' adventures

Here are some of my favourites :

James Baldwin and his Pearson Triton 'Atom' :
http://atomvoyages.com/atom/aboutatom.htm

This forum's own Caroldevon :
http://art-of-remembering.typepad.com/seajourneys/

John, 'The Delivery Guy' who sails new cats around the world to their new owners :
http://www.sailblogs.com/member/deliveries/

Spartina, a Voyager 35 (deck saloon version of our Challenger) - some scrummy recipes in their galley :
http://ca.geocities.com/the_spartina/main/main.htm

Annie Hill's site at http://www.anniehill.blogspot.com/

The adventures of the steel yacht 'Do It' :
http://www.doitcruise.info/

A pair of Caledonian Scandahooligans off around the world again, following in the wake of their voyage 30 years ago in a concrete Colin Archer - this time in a much faster composite cat.... http://www.whiteadmiral.com/

And here are the Ros Ailithers - Atlantic voyaging in a mobo! Well, actually a 'converted' fishing trawler, who does have some sail..... http://trawlertravels.blogspot.com/

And finally, does anybody recognise these two gringos in the Caribbean who used to post on here?
http://2gringos.blogspot.com/
 
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