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Forum: herSailNet 01-02-2013
Replies: 20
Views: 1,558
Posted By Livia
Re: Unleashing Womens Potential in Blue Water Sailing

While we were prepping for cruising I was in charge of gear research and installation for the last two years while my husband worked full time. I had a proportionally small but unfortunately highly...
Forum: Pacific Northwest & Alaska 01-02-2013
Replies: 17
Views: 527
Posted By Livia
Re: Book recommendations for rounding Van Isle?

Perhaps a call to the Vancouver Island Regional Library system? The librarians there are generally very nice. I found an email for them ref@virl.bc.ca I'm sure if you explained what you were doing,...
Forum: Pacific Northwest & Alaska 12-30-2012
Replies: 17
Views: 527
Posted By Livia
Re: Book recommendations for rounding Van Isle?

A book written ABOUT The Curve of Time gives a lot of great insight into the original:
Following the Curve of Time: The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet: Cathy Converse: 9781894898683: Amazon.com:...
Forum: herSailNet 12-30-2012
Replies: 20
Views: 1,558
Posted By Livia
Re: Unleashing Womens Potential in Blue Water Sailing

PCPs method works and I was able to read the article - thanks!

I really enjoyed the fact that she gives specific advice and I resonated with the idea of acknowledging that the person learning has...
Forum: herSailNet 12-26-2012
Replies: 20
Views: 1,558
Posted By Livia
Re: Unleashing Womens Potential in Blue Water Sailing

We are dirtbag cruisers - no magazines right now ;)
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 12-26-2012
Replies: 14
Views: 766
Posted By Livia
Re: Books by Sailors

Wow, sailnet changed my links into big dramatic images. interesting.
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 12-26-2012
Replies: 14
Views: 766
Posted By Livia
Re: Books by Sailors

Perhaps you meant self-published books but you said sailing books by sailors so two excellent books are:

The Motion of the Ocean: 1 Small Boat, 2 Average Lovers, and a Woman's Search for the...
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 12-26-2012
Replies: 10
Views: 644
Posted By Livia
Re: sailboat insurance in canada

Salut Mike,

Mon mari (Carol) vien du Gaspé. Si tu veux, tu peut nous envoyer un email a s.v.estrellita@gmail.com sur le sujet. On a parti du Victoria en 2011. Notre bateaux est actuallement a la...
Forum: Electrical Systems 12-26-2012
Replies: 14
Views: 821
Posted By Livia
Re: How do I know how much I need?

When I read about this I found that people estimated solar output a lot of different ways.

Some take the total watts and divide by 3 or 4 to estimate 12V amp hours per day.

Some multiply the...
Forum: Introduce Yourself 12-26-2012
Replies: 4
Views: 310
Posted By Livia
Re: Vava'u, Tonga

If you want some local contacts: Cruiser Guide Vava'u Islands, Tonga, South Pacific (http://www.vavau.to/marineguide.html)
Forum: herSailNet 12-26-2012
Replies: 20
Views: 1,558
Posted By Livia
Re: Unleashing Womens Potential in Blue Water Sailing

Can you give us non-subscribers a sense of the article?
Forum: Gear & Maintenance 12-26-2012
Replies: 29
Views: 1,770
Posted By Livia
Re: Third Reef or Storm Sail?

We are cruising and chose to go with a third reef. The bunched up slugs and having to deal with them (or being lazy and letting your sail ride high) which RichH covered well are both PITAs but we...
Forum: Pacific Northwest & Alaska 12-07-2012
Replies: 5
Views: 348
Posted By Livia
Re: Princess Louisa Inlet - lots of motoring?

We motored both ways both times. First time we didn't see the falls because things were iced over after the rapids past the kids camp. Second time we had the dock to ourselves, again in winter and...
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 12-07-2012
Replies: 353
Views: 58,435
Posted By Livia
Re: Pictures: Those perfect moments

Our last swim at our haul out facility (French Polynesia) before leaving our boat on the hard for a few months and flying back to the frozen PNW.
...
Forum: Provisioning 02-15-2012
Replies: 158
Views: 8,500
Posted By Livia
bljones - *snort* I seriously hope the passage...

bljones - *snort* I seriously hope the passage doesn't take 6 months! :) If so, we'll have to rethink this cruising thing.

tdw - Pre-cooked bacon (which Kirkland rebrands from Hormel but is surely...
Forum: Cruising & Liveaboard Forum 02-14-2012
Replies: 840
Views: 63,258
Posted By Livia
Caveats: As people have already mentioned, the...

Caveats: As people have already mentioned, the full/fin keel discussion is complicated by the fact that displacement and hull shape are often related to the designers fin choice. Also, the type of...
Forum: Introduce Yourself 02-14-2012
Replies: 4
Views: 315
Posted By Livia
We bought our cruising boat while living in...

We bought our cruising boat while living in Colorado Springs and 3.5 years after purchase, we cut the docklines and started cruising.

Sounds like we have/had a similar plan - welcome!
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 02-14-2012
Replies: 25
Views: 1,596
Posted By Livia
Now that my overnight passages are *warm* I'm...

Now that my overnight passages are *warm* I'm enjoying them a lot more.
Forum: Gear & Maintenance 02-14-2012
Replies: 3
Views: 523
Posted By Livia
Ours are non-floating. We have them in camera...

Ours are non-floating. We have them in camera cases which slip onto the webbing on our PFDs and we have a small bit of cord tied to them as a back up so they can't fall out of the camera case when...
Forum: Provisioning 02-14-2012
Replies: 158
Views: 8,500
Posted By Livia
We're going to be an outlier on this one because...

We're going to be an outlier on this one because we just stocked up for our Pacific crossing. We have at least 6 months of food on board right now. Heck, we have 7 months worth of Kirkland brand...
Forum: Gear & Maintenance 03-29-2011
Replies: 14
Views: 3,412
Posted By Livia
Thanks for the thoughts everyone. The folks...

Thanks for the thoughts everyone.

The folks at Dan-Fender tell me that they sell a hand pump (!). I have not been able to locate it *anywhere* but here is a picture of it:
...
Forum: General Discussion (sailing related) 03-28-2011
Replies: 29
Views: 2,680
Posted By Livia
They are potentially separate ideas. YachtBlogs...

They are potentially separate ideas. YachtBlogs is curated which makes it different from an "anything goes" list IMHO. I think there is still room for an anything goes list although personally I...
Forum: Gear & Maintenance 03-28-2011
Replies: 14
Views: 3,412
Posted By Livia
I finally got around to taking the pictures! ...

I finally got around to taking the pictures!

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5135/5569307774_13b80f4e90.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5177/5568721195_e782014712.jpg

If a ball pump would...
Forum: Gear & Maintenance 03-17-2011
Replies: 14
Views: 3,412
Posted By Livia
Yeah, I am being lazy because I thought someone...

Yeah, I am being lazy because I thought someone else might have some Dan-Fenders and I understand all of the fittings on that brand are the same.

I'll get a pic.
Forum: Gear & Maintenance 03-17-2011
Replies: 14
Views: 3,412
Posted By Livia
Dan-Fenders - How to inflate?

We have a FenderStep and a few Dan-Fender fenders. We originally used a compressor to inflate the FenderStep and bought the others inflated.

We deflated two big ball style Dan-fenders and now...we...
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