Here are some links we've found useful or interesting.
- British Columbia links – A whole page of links for British Columbia
- Computer stuff:
- Blogger.com – Google's free blog hosting. This is our blog host. It has some free features that we really needed, especially the ability to post blog entries via email.
- Go Daddy is our web hosting service.
- SailBlogs – Sailing blog hosting. Basic blogs are free, but the really cool features cost a little. If we didn't already have a website and host, we probably would have stayed with this blog host.
- Sail Mail – The service that allowed us to send email via our SSB radio.
- Cruising clubs:
- Books and guides:
- Jimmy Cornell's World Cruising Routes, 9th Edition – These books provide essential information for planning passages and arriving at foreign ports. Be sure to get the latest edition.
- Reed's various almanacs – These books are crucial references for tides, currents, communications, lights, and such.
- Changing Course: A Woman's Guide to Choosing the Cruising Life – When sailing guys ask us how to convince their women to go cruising, this is the book we have them start with.
- 2023 Waggoner Cruising Guide – The 2011 edition of the Waggoner Cruising Guide was our bible for two years of cruising in Puget Sound and British Columbia. We wished they could cover the whole world.
- Discussion boards:
- Other cruisers:
(None of these folks are still out cruising, but then, neither are we.) - Anaconda (Dutch)
- Avocette of Portsmouth
- BeBe
- Brick House
- Dessert First
- Islay Mist
- Jammin
- Jovietal
- Juno
- Magenta
- Saeta
- Spectacle
- Squander
- People and companies:
- Pete McGonagle and Cindy Metler at Swiftsure Yachts
- Andrew Roth, who sold our house so that we could sail away! And when we returned to San Francisco, he helped us buy our loft and sold it for us when we moved to Oregon.
- Cree, Julie, and crew at Berkeley Marine Center
- Pineapple Sails made our new main sail.
- All the people who waited on us at Svendsens
- Our snail mail forwarding service is St. Brendan's Isle. If you decide to use them too because you found them here, please tell them we referred you so that we can get a month free.
- Rallys:
- Weather:
- Miscellaneous:
- Flag Identifier, a handy flag identification tool
