Category Archives: Technical Information

Five Common Cruising Mistakes

The biggest problem for many of us when we start out cruising is that we are “unconsciously incompetent.” That is, we don’t know what we don’t know. We then must learn by making mistakes, watching other’s mistakes or through reading … Continue reading

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Leaving the Boat

While I have greatly enjoyed (well, most of the time anyway) living on Moonshadow for the majority of the last ten years, there are times when one needs to get off for various reasons and become an earthling. I’ve been … Continue reading

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How to Reason With Hurricane Season

I’m pleased to report that I have no first-hand experience with hurricane-force winds in my cruising experiences on Moonshadow. While I’ve ridden out two hurricanes, one on a 40,000 ton ship and the other in a hotel room, that was … Continue reading

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Propane

How much propane (LPG in our case) do you carry? We carry two 10 kg. Bottles. Each bottle usually lasts us through about 3-4 months of cruising. What safety precautions do you follow? Bottles are stored in a flammables locker … Continue reading

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Mast Boot and Chain Plate Deck Penetrations

I think that all of us who live aboard and cruise strive to keep our living quarters and belongings dry. But no matter how hard we endeavour to seal out the elements, the odd drop or two seems to make … Continue reading

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Cruising With SCUBA

The only sport I enjoy more than SCUBA diving is sailing, and fortunately cruising and diving go hand in hand. One nice aspect of cruising is being able to get to some of those remote dive sites not accessible to … Continue reading

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Weather Information

How Do We Get Weather Information? Where to get weather information is a subject that could (and usually does) fill a small booklet or cruising guide in virtually every cruising area of the world. I suppose the amount of information … Continue reading

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Batteries

For the house bank on Moonshadow, I am using eight Hella Endurant six-volt, deep cycle lead acid batteries, wired in series/parallel. I purchased and installed these in Auckland, New Zealand in 1999. This gives us a total of 880 amp … Continue reading

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Malaria and Cruising

Anyone cruising in remote tropical areas is, or should be, concerned about malaria. We’ve learned a bit about it during the last two seasons as we cruised Vanuatu, the first area we have visited where we have actually encountered cases … Continue reading

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Medical Kit

Can you give us some feedback about filling
prescriptions and/or beefing up your ship’s medicine chest in various part
of the cruising world? My general experience is that the less developed the country you are visiting, the less that is available as it … Continue reading

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