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The Cruising Kitty’s Sailing Events List 2013

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The Cruising Kitty’s Sailing Events List 2013

Here’s a list of the sailing and cruising events the Can Opener and I participated in in 2013:

Highlights

  • yacht delivery …
  • Red Tabby Cruising Regatta…
  • team racing with the Red Tabby Yacht Club
  • Cowes Week
  • Junior Offshore Group racing 
  • passages with Cap’n André on Un Tigre Beau
  • lectures at the Cruising Association
  • RYA courses
 
Total number of events: 
  • exams/courses:
  • cruising lectures: 
  • cruising and sailing celebrations:
  • books read: 
  • different boats sailed on:
  • deliveries:
  • days team racing: 
  • days on delivery: 
  • days fleet racing:
  • passage days:  

Total days on the water:

Sea miles gained this year:

Why count up where we’ve been? You gotta know where you‘ve been to know where you’re going. At least, we figure it can’t hurt. And it feels good too.

Next up: I’ve got the Can Opener working on our Cruising Resolutions for 2014. 

 



–Captain Cat
 

(transcribed by the Can Opener)

The Cruising Kitty’s Lecture List for 2013

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The Cruising Kitty’s Lecture List for 2013

 
Here’s the complete list of the cruising lectures the First Mate and I attended in 2013:
  1. London Boat Show: Diesel Engine Maintenance
  2. London Boat Show:  Autopilots
  3. London Boat Show: Boat Prep and Pre-Rally Checks
  4. London Boat Show: Marine Insurance 
  5. Cruising Association: Auxiliary Systems

 

Huh. It didn’t seem like so much at the time, but when you write it all down… it adds up nicely!


 
–Captain Cat
 
(transcribed by the Can Opener)

The Cruising Kitty’s Reading List for 2013

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The Cruising Kitty’s Reading List for 2013

Here’s what the Captain snoozed on during 2013
(and that were subsequently assigned to and read by the Can Opener too):

    1. Around Alone, By Emma Richards

 

    1. Marine Diesel Engines, by Nigel Calder
    2. The Cruising Life: A Commonsense Guide for the Would-Be Voyager, by Jim Trefethen
    3. The Nature of Boats: Insights and Esoterica for the Nautically Obsessed, by Dave Gerr

 

  1. The Voyager’s Handbook, by Beth Leonard




–Captain Cat

(transcribed by the Can Opener)

 

Red Tabby Cruising Committee Meets

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The first Meeting of the Red Tabby Cruising Committee has adjourned… and it was fantastic! There were free drinks for everyone, three course meals, cupcakes to frolic in… 

Well, possibly not free for everyone – but for beloved guests of honour… absolutely. (The First Mate‘s strangled choking noises behind me are a tad reminiscent of when he was trying to bift me off the cupcake pile last night. But frankly if I heeded all of the Can Opener’s gasping and in articulate overreacting I would never get anything done. And certainly the cupcake count of my life would be dramatically lower.)

The First Mate spent the better part of this morning with Cruising Committee work: drafting emails to Cruising Section Members to publicise upcoming club cruising events this Spring. Tomorrow he’ll be compiling the updated Section contact list. Moaning and aching all day, he was. As if he were the only one frenetically employed…

At times, I do find the Can Opener has little regard for real effort – I have been busy all morning filing the leftover patisserie I looted. Filed according to colour, culinary heritage and tastiness… (Oi! WHERE did these come from, Fuzzbucket?? I thought I completely emptied your dreadful sac à main last night! My dear First Mate, that delightful Red Tabby chef absolutely pressed them upon me when I told him I could get him Dee Cafari‘s autograph. She still remembers me…)

Quality control is my forté. 

–Captain Cat 

(transcribed by the Can Opener)