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What’s better for cruising: Mexico or the Caribbean?
Hopeful cruisers sometimes wonder where to start their adventures afloat. Pacific side of Mexico or the Caribbean – both beautiful cruising grounds, anchorages in proximity and resources to get started. Is Mexico or the Caribbean better ? One may be more appealing than the other, all depending on your priorities. We’ve been fortunate to spend […]
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Insider ideas: Totem’s 2020 gift guide
Every year we put a holiday gift guide together, to help pick out something special for the cruisers and cruisers-to-be on your list. This year, the suggestions have a new source. We send an occasional newsletter to coaching clients, and included in each edition are tips/tricks from Totem for the cruising life. While many are […]
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Bringing holiday spirit cruising
If you’re cruising, you must be flexible. The weather doesn’t adapt to your plans. Familiar products you know from home may not be accessible. And yes, the familiar must have features of your traditional holiday probably don’t exist in far flung places. Next week Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. Except in flexible cruiser tradition, we decided to […]
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Where border crossing is easy
The tyranny of the sock has returned to our crew. We have road tripped from Mexico back to the Pacific Northwest, and it is cold! Family pulled us back; we’ll spend most of the month of November back on Bainbridge Island with my father. Our travels were unfettered, and border crossing easy. We had over […]
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How do you deal with garbage?
Cruising is rife with romantic ideals. Exploring faraway places and pristine environments; living in harmony with nature as we make potable water from the sea, power from the sun, and forage for dinner… what a life! Gazing out across turquoise water from the cockpit, trying to keep upwind of a bag of putrefying garbage waiting […]
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Cruising untethered in the Sea of Cortez
Cruising is steeped in freedom. Thanks to coronavirus, that makes it more appealing than ever, while at the same time it is more circumscribed than ever. Sailing north and deeper into the Sea of Cortez is to enter a disconnected world, one that feels untouched by pandemic concerns. Limitations on behavior from the mainland stops […]
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Beat the heat in the Sea of Cortez
Summer in the Sea is as hot as they come. Over the years, we've learned a range of ways to stay cool in the summer heat and enjoy these beautiful cruising grounds. Here's how to survive a season in one of the hottest cruising grounds in the world.
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Weather routing for passages
Jamie will be the first to tell you he’s not a weather router. But weather advice has crept into the work we do with coaching clients, as we seek to help them cruise happily. Getting caught in bad weather due to misjudging a forecast or failing to read conditions – common errors for new cruisers […]
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Preparing a boat for haulout
We’re preparing our boat for haulout at Cabrales Boatyard again. This is our third time at Cabrales and sixth time hauling Totem, which leaves us with notes on how to prepare.
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Foraging while cruising
The flavor of places we visit as cruisers is a meaningful part of the joy of cruising. The literal flavor: the sourcing, preparing, and enjoying of food connects us to sweet memories. What’s more local and connected than foraging for sustenance? I remember toddling after my aunties to eat more blackberries than I could pick, […]
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Managing resources: propane on board
We ran out of propane last night. Inconveniently enough (is it ever convenient?) it happened in the middle of cooking dinner. That’s preferable to seeing burner flames fizzle out before morning coffee is finished brewing, however. There was no crisis; a full second tank was waiting. Gauging consumption over time has helped us anticipate needs […]
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Buying a boat remotely
Bias to action: a quality in people who get things done. Right now, working on what’s possible to do – instead of what isn’t – is helping future cruisers make progress on realizing their dream. They’re even buying boats,– despite being unable to travel to kick the fenders or sea trial. How does that work […]
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Going in the face of uncertainty
Cheering on a family beginning their cruising dreams this morning, I imagined the wonders in store for them and thought about our steps south. In just a few weeks we have our “cruisiversary,” that date in 2008 that we left the dock on Bainbridge Island and headed out the Strait of Juan de Fuca to […]
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Bookaholic while cruising
Can you ever have enough books? When we bought our magic carpet in 2007, Totem’s shelf space was leaner than suited our family, particularly with three young children at a range of pre- and early-reader stages. Before setting sail, Jamie added more than 20 linear feet of bookshelves on board. The world has changed and […]
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How do you know where to anchor?
The deceptively simple question – how do you know where to anchor? – is more nuanced than some imagine. In our hyperconnected world, it’s the kind of straightforward information that lends itself to a single source…except there isn’t one, and it’s actually not that straightforward anyway. Choosing where to anchor is a little more complicated […]
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Reassurance from Baja’s bounty
Cruisers obsess over food sourcing and long-term storage more than the typical person. Over-provisioning is one of the classic new cruiser mistakes that even seasoned cruisers are prone to make. But the early weeks of covid brought concerns about food security. We were headed to Baja, a region already on relatively thin distribution networks. Any […]
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Fast track to cruising
Pandemic closes down the world. The world decides to go cruising! OK, not exactly, but there’s been a very unexpected impact of coronavirus: we are seeing a surge in people making plans to go cruising. Back in March, Jamie and I feared our coaching work would evaporate overnight. We thought the boat market would tank. […]
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