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Sustainable Travel Tips
Travel Sustainably As a traveler, you can do a lot to help ensure that tourism remains a positive experience for travelers and hosts alike. The
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Guru Recipes
Mushroom Pesto
I rarely cook with mushrooms because Stephen hates them. But a few months ago, Don and Lynda, our previous seaschool students turned full-time cruisers, visited
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Guru Recipes
Middle Eastern Fish with Tahini (Samak bi Tahini)
This is one of our favorite fish dishes. When we visited Junieh, Lebanon, in 1993 on our boat called ‘Royal Salute’ we fell in love
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Guru Recipes
Prawns in Beer and Peri-Peri Sauce
I love this dish! It’s flavorful, quick, easy and the spicy peri-peri sauce gives this dish that little extra umph. The Portuguese who emigrated to
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Cruising Stories
Happy Independence Day!
Like many other Americans here in Florida we will be on our boat “Zuri” today, celebrating 4th of July, enjoying a great barbecue and watching
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Community
Sailing School Plonker Updates
A Quick Shift to Living Aboard Last year we featured the story of how George and Sarah found the boat of their dreams for retirement.
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Community
Sailing School Plonkers Of The Month: Awe-Spray
Don and Lynda were our second set of sea school students in 1996 on the island of Sint Maarten. We were still quite green in
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Sailing School Plonkers of the Month: Mirador
George & Sarah on their catamaran ‘Mirador‘ are two of our more adventurous Plonkers. Getting to know them over the years, we learned that even
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Guru Recipes
Bread Making on Board
My Mom’s Bread Recipe With Variations: Focaccia and Pizza I grew up on a farm on the northwestern border of South Africa in a remote
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Sailing School Plonkers Of The Month: Simplicity
This is the story about our “Plonkers of the Month”, David and Peggy King and their boat “Simplicity”. We are immensely proud of them for taking
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Plastic Water Bottles Harm Our Oceans
Floating Killers of the Oceans Anyone who knows me, will know that I detest plastic water bottles. Sadly, even I sometimes succumb to the convenience
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Our Story
Meet Our Catamaran Guru Founders
Stephen and Estelle were married in 1990 and lived in Cape Town, South Africa, a small coastal town known for its stunning beaches and spectacular
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Cruising Stories
Cruising The Oceans: The Learning Curve
The year was 1992 and our dream was about to start, or was it? We had just “retired” from very busy careers and lives to
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Why A Catamaran?
Catamaran Safety
How Safe Are Catamarans For Blue Water Sailing? But What If They Capsize? “I have heard concerning stories about cats flipping in strong winds”. This question
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MAKING A DIFFERENCE
I love the ocean and its creatures and I hope that it will be preserved and sustained for many generations to come. I have had
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