Articles

• The Dream by Mel Neale
  Tom popped the first big question over 35 years ago. After 15 years of marriage, I popped the second. By that time we had made the decision to have a family and to live aboard a sailboat and both these goals were accomplished. So, “Will you take us cruising now?” seemed the right question to me.
  
  
• Local Knowledge Generations Now and Then
  For those of us who measure time in terms of when we’re next going boating, we’re also prone to relating just about anything to the boating experience.Sometimes the connection to boating comes in the least expected time and place. Such a “mind-meld” occurred while touring the D-Day Memorial Museum in New Orleans. Opened in 2000, this museum takes you on a compelling trip through the events leading up to World War II, the Normandy Invasion itself and the war’s tragic aftermath. It’s truly a multi-media experience with film clips, voice overs, animated graphics and astounding photos and artifacts. You leave feeling both humbled and grateful.

• Save Your Skin All Year Long

  Interested in saving your skin? Who isn’t, especially women who love the outdoors? Whether it’s summer boating season, time to head south for winter or get ready for winter sports like skiing, the harsh rays of the sun are taking their toll on our largest organ, our skin.

• Women Towing the Line
  They work as mother-daughter teams, husbands and wives and include a handful of singles, but boaters needing assistance on the water probably don’t care who comes to their aid when they’re in a jam. Just don’t be surprised this summer when the smiling face behind the helm of that red towboat is a woman captain. As the towing industry has grown in both size and professionalism, so have opportunities for women to get into what’s long been a largely male occupation. A recent check of owners and licensed captains operating as part of the TowBoatUS nationwide fleet found no fewer than 20 women towing operators, all currently at work helping out boaters. Some came from other professions, including an emergency room nurse and a sailing instructor, but they all share a passion for being out on the water.
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• Marine Trader Owners' Offer Women's Course
  It may be a cliché that marriage is a give and take relationship, but one phrase you don't often hear from husbands is, "Here honey, take the helm." For whatever reason, some husbands have been reluctant to give their wives much responsibility on boats. It was with some excitement then, when Ruth Baumert, Special Programs Manager for BoatUS Marine Insurance, called Seaworthy one day to urge us to write about the "Women's Underway Training Course" offered by the Marine Trader Owners' Association (MTOA), which she said could be a model for other boating clubs.
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• Staying On Course with Class
  There’s little argument about one extremely important difference between the sexes: Women don’t mind asking for directions. To help our mostly male readers get some further insight into how women think, BoatUS Magazine recently joined 17 women as they set sail aboard a 110-foot schooner hoping to learn more about how to navigate on the water.
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• Getting Yourself Safely Home: Using the Radio to Get Help
  If you are not often the primary operator of your boat, are you prepared to take control in an emergency? Any skipper can be incapacitated by sudden illness ranging from poisoning to heart attack. Unconsciousness could result from illness or accident, and even a relatively minor accident could render the primary skipper unable to continue operating the boat. If that happens, someone else on the boat needs to know enough to deal with the emergency.
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• Preparing for the Unexpected — Bringing the Boat Back In
  In the second of two articles, Seaworthy , the BoatUS Marine Insurance journal, outlines some things that a regular crew member or guest should know about getting help if the skipper is suddenly disabled. Anything from food poisoning to a fall or a heart attack could leave the skipper unable to operate the boat. In such an emergency, someone else would have to take the helm and get the boat back to port. That could be you.
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• Cracking the Teak Ceiling; Women on the Water
  It's all the mermaids' fault. According to marine folklore experts, that's why, for centuries, women weren't welcome on most ships.Seamen, a superstitious lot to begin with, believed the mesmerizing powers of women brought on high winds and dead calm … although there are no recorded instances of both occurring at the same time.
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• A Reel Romance: Husband and Wife Team Up on the Kingfish Tournament Circuit
  Kingfish hunters Dan and Rhonda Abshire like to do things in threes. For one thing, aboard their Pro-Line 34, RXCape, they fish the Gulf and south Atlantic as a team of three, along with Dan's father, Dan Sr. For another, their boat has a brace of three 225-hp Mercury outboards out back. And in 1999 they took home triple honors on the Southern Kingfish Association (SKA) tournament circuit: Winner of the invitational KingMaster 100 for Dan, Top Overall Lady Angler Award for Rhonda and the SKA National Championship for Team RXCape.
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