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Life on a Sailboat

Living aboard either permanently or on an extended cruise is the dream of many sailors. Read about the equipment your boat may need and how to prepare for a wonderful life aboard, whether in a marina or exotic cruising grounds.
Review of The One Pan Galley Gourmet
Cooking healthy and tasty meals while cruising on a small boat involves some challenges. Authors Don Jacobson and John Roberts have developed a wide range of simple, interesting recipes using fresh ingredients but needing only limited galley room and utensils.
Sailors’ Blogs
An excellent way to learn what living on a sailboat is like is to read what other sailors have written. The SailBlogs web site collects the daily journals of hundreds of sailors around the world. See what concerns sailors have on extended cruises or just living in a harbor. Search for boats visiting ports you’re interested in. Here you can preview what your own life aboard a boat may be like.
Liveaboards Online Discussion Group
This online group has hundreds of people who either live aboard now or are contemplating moving aboard a boat soon. You can join the group and receive daily emails to hear what other liveaboards are interested in, or browse almost a decade of archived messages to hear how others have handled virtually every kind of liveaboard issue that may arise.
Provisioning for a Cruise without Refrigeration
Historically, and until relatively recently, long-range sailors needed lots of tricks for provisioning without refrigeration. Even today, many boats have only an icebox. Here’s an excellent article chockfull of tips for how to provision and eat well and heartily without refrigeration when at sea for weeks at a time. Learn what food to buy and how to store it to prevent spoiling.
Sailing and Cruising Stories
This site collects sailing cruisers’ logs and offers a wealth of other resources about life aboard a sailboat, including updates from ships currently at sea and a listing of sailing books available online.
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