I’ve been holding off on listening to these for a while and tonight I finally found some time to watch the online seminars from Zimmerman Marine . You’ll need the Macromedia Flash Player installed to watch the videos (most of you already do) and either a quiet space or some head phones. The seminars...

The US doesn’t have any required certifications for boat chartering or ownership (yet), but the EU does, the International Proficiency Certificate. According to the US Sailing press release US charters in the EU were denied the right to charter or required to hire a skipper. I’m pretty sure with a good...

I spent the weekend cruising to Gig Harbor as part of the US Sailing Bareboat Cruising Certification (BBC). The journey started Friday night at the Windworks classroom where Captain Jimmy guided Marvin, Gene and I through some basic weather forecasting. We decided it would be best to sail down to Gig...