Estelle Cockcroft

Estelle Cockcroft is a seasoned sailor, catamaran expert, and co-founder of Catamaran Guru. With over 70,000 NM sailed and 30+ years aboard, she empowers new cruisers with expert advice on liveaboard life, yacht ownership, and ocean adventures.

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RYA vs ASA Sailing School: What’s Best?

RYA or ASA Sailing School- Unsure about which is best for you? Unsure if RYA courses or ASA sailing instruction is right for you? Both Royal Yachting Association (RYA) and American Sailing Association (ASA) offer sailing instruction that will boost your confidence, increase your safety, and lower yacht insurance premiums. Catamaran Guru has offered and

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BVI Charter Vessel Seizures, Related to Corruption?

The beautiful British Virgin Islands have been the subject of some ugly business of late. Some of it heavily impacting the charter industry and more importantly vacationers who were the innocent bystanders in all this. Most recently on Thursday, April 28, 2022, the BVI premier, Andrew Alturo Fahie, was arrested at the Miami-Opa Locka Executive

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Buying An ex-Charter Yacht: What You Need to Know

Will Bruton writing for Yachting World gathered different points of view to offer good advice to those considering buying an ex-charter yacht. For this article, he interviewed Stephen & Estelle as well as a boat delivery expert who frequently delivers ex-charter yachts and an ex-charter yacht owner to give insight to what to consider if

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Innovative “Sail” Reduces Costs & Emissions for Cargo Ships

The 55,000 cargo ships and tankers that traverse the oceans daily burn fossil fuels with soaring costs both for the shipping companies’ bottom lines and ecologically for our planet Earth. Shipping across the oceans produces about 2.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions (a similar amount to airplanes). But, a French company, Airseas, founded by former

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Metaflower: Mega Yacht NFT Breaks Record

To everyone’s surprise, even those immersed in these metaverses of blockchains and virtual coins, a mega yacht named Metaflower Super Mega Yacht released by Republic Realm, a metaverse developer, sold in November 2021 for 149 Ethereum virtual coinage (valued at US$650,000). As of this writing (January 2022), this maritime NFT, Metaflower, is the most expensive

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