TweetA woman sailor need not leave her boat behind when her husband passes away, while sailing around the world…she CAN continue on! Leaving Cape Town after my husband died from Covid, across the biggest ocean yet, without the captain I sailed the last 75,000 miles with was daunting. The very… Click here for full post: […] More
TweetBlue Water Sailing Magazine just published my article yesterday. Usually Patrick writes this one, but this year, it fell to me. Special thanks to Jeff Carlile for helping with editing, back in July, when an article deadline was just one of many problems in my life 🙂 This article talks… Click here for full post: […] More
TweetBlue Water Sailing Magazine just published my article yesterday. Usually Patrick writes this one, but this year, it fell to me. Special thanks to Jeff Carlile for helping with editing, back in July, when an article deadline was just one of many problems in my life 🙂 This article talks… Click here for full post: […] More
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. Here, he writes about what it’s like offering weather guidance, and offers a hint at the visceral experience of fending off dragons. The post Click here for full post: […] More
Tweet This was Rebecca’s most feared Sail to date…the stormy weather going around Cape of Good Hope and Cape Aghullas! And she was right…we experienced every kind of weather on this passage including a huge electrical storm where we still wonder why we were not struck by lightning! Luckily Predictwind… Click here for full post: […] More
Tweet Best WEATHER At Sea BY FAR!! In the old days, you used barometers, and GRIB files, and listened to SSB and VHF weather reports to round the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. Now there is just so much more to aid a sailor. We used PredictWind Offshore… Click here for full post: […] More
Tweet In the old days, you used barometers, and GRIB files, and listened to SSB and VHF weather reports to round the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. Now there is just so much more to aid a sailor. The Best Weather App FREE We used PredictWind Offshore for planning… Click here for full post: […] More
TweetIn the old days, you used barometers, and GRIB files, and listened to SSB and VHF weather reports to round the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. Now there is just so much more to aid a sailor. We used PredictWind Offshore for planning the trip when we… Click here for full post: […] More
Cruising has seasonal rhythms; weather is the dominant factor, and for cruisers in Mexico it’s time to be in – or well on your way to – an area to spend hurricane season. From Mexico’s “Gold Coast” on the Pacific, the primary choices are south to El Salvador or Click here for full post: https://www.sailingtotem.com/2019/05/migrating-for-hurricane-season-in-mexico.html […] More
TweetDid you miss the latest video? Brick House Departed Tanzania with a forecast of a cyclone, down the Mozambique Channel, nearly 1700 miles? Why would we do this? Find out where, when, why and how, in this video… Mozambique Cyclone Idai – Sailing towards a storm In March (a Click here for full post: […] More
TweetMozambique Cyclone Idai – Sailing towards a storm, a little earlier than planned, during cyclone season… Late April, May and June is the right time to sail this coast….We left mid March because of an extraordinary weather window which would carry us the first 1000 miles downwind, instead of upwind… Click here for full post: […] More
I watched from Totem’s cockpit yesterday as friends sailed out of the La Cruz anchorage. Their next stop: the Marquesas, French Polynesia’s nearest island group to the Americas, around 3,000 miles away. This week’s weather window spawned the first wave of South Pacific-bound departures from our corner of Mexico. Click here for full post: https://www.sailingtotem.com/2019/03/weather-for-sailing-to-the-south-pacific.html […] More