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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)

 

It’s All About The Journey

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In the Marina at the London Boat Show 2013

It’s All About The Journey…

Okay. So if it’s all about the journey… what are these things doing at MY boat show??

We’d get to wherever we’re going in these monsters in about two seconds, no – three seconds absolute max.  

No time at all to relax and smell the tuna. Or the mahi mahi. 

It must make sense to somebody, because these machines are here. It does not make sense to yours truly.

 

–Captain Cat 

(transcribed by the Can Opener)

At The Boat Show 2013

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At The London Boat Show 2013…aaaaaaall day!

FanTAStic!  …And now for a restorative snooze…

I will require the Can Opener to capture my reflection, opinions and unparalleled genius on the morrow.

To the silk cushion!

Your humble (yet ever perfect) servant,

 
–Captain Cat 

(transcribed by the Can Opener)