This is an index of all the pages and information in the Cruising for Dummies Handbook. To see an index to all pages on the entire website, see the Site Map.
- A
- Abandon Ship routine
- Aground - what to do if you go aground
- Anchor dragging - what to do when it happens
- Anchor watches
- Anchoring - all about it, how to choose an anchorage, pick a spot, drop the hook.
- B
- Barbados - photo album page
- Barbados - touring the island
- Black Box - why some sailors survive longer than others
- Blisters on a boat's bottom
- Boat - photographs of Callipygia
- Boat reference books - a list
- Boats - photographs of sailboats we met
- Books - cruising reference
- Bottom blisters on a boat
C - Callipygia - how she got her name
- Callipygia - photo album page
- Chart management on a cruising sailboat
- Checklists for cruising emergencies
- Checklists for everyday cruising
- Choosing a bluewater sailboat
- Collision avoidance on a sailboat
- Crew overboard routine
- Cruising emergencies - checklists for What If?
- Cruising - getting started
- Cruising Handbook - cover page, table of contents, and introduction
- Cruising lessons
- Cruising life - Pat's perspective
- Cruising life - 'How Tos' for everyday activities
- Cruising pictures - miscellaneous photos
- Cruising - selecting a boat for ocean travel
- Cruising statistics for Callipygia's travels
- Cruising - useful website links
D- Departure checklist for ocean cruising
- Dinghies - choosing one, using one, and safety considerations
- Disaster - formula for one on a sailboat
- Disaster prevention for a sailboat - the Black Box
- Disaster prevention for a sailboat - the Four Rules
- Distress signalling on a boat
- Dominican Republic - climbing Pico Duarte
- Dominican Republic - some photos
- Downwind sailing
E - Emergency checklists for cruising What If's?
F- Fire emergencies and prevention on a boat
- Fog - hints for boating in fog
- Food - recipes
- Food - reference page: boat provisioning, suppliers, fuel conservation, etc
- Formula for disaster on a sailboat
- Four rules of preparation for a sailboat
G- Getting started as beginning cruisers
- Grenada, slide show
- Guadeloupe photo album page
H - Heaving to on a sailboat
- Heavy weather checklist for a sailboat
- How to do everything on the cruising sailboat
- Hurricane preparation for a sailboat
I - Inside Passage, photos and slide show of ferry trip to Alaska
J- Journals - index of Travel Logs/Journals
K - Keeping fit while aging, and on a cruising sailboat
L- Landfall checklist for ocean cruising
- Leak emergencies on a boat
- Lessons for cruising
- Lighthouses, photographs of
- Links to useful cruising resource websites
- Logs - the Ship's Log part 1 (Boat Notes)
- Logs - the Ship's Log part 2 (Book of Lists)
- Logs - the Ship's Log part 3 (Deck Log)
- Logs - the Ship's Log part 4 (Defect Book)
- Logs - the Ship's Log part 5 (Engine Log)
- Logs - the Ship's Log part 6 (Supply and Parts Inventory)
- Logs - the Ship's Log part 7 (Equipment Inventory)
- Logs - the Ship's Log part 8 (Maintenance Record)
- Logs - the Ship's Log part 9 (Weather Log)
- Logs - the Ship's Log part 10 (Radio Log)
- Logs - the Ship's Log part 11 (Navigator's Notebook)
- Logs of our travels - index
- Log of our travels on sailboat Callipygia 2001
- Log of our travels on sailboat Callipygia 2002
- Log of our travels on sailboat Callipygia 2003
- Log of our travels on sailboat Callipygia 2004
- Luperon to Boqueron Passage Plan
M - Man overboard routine
- Map of cruising route in 2001
- Map of cruising route in 2002
- Map of cruising route in 2003
- Map of cruising route in 2004
- Marine Radio - emergency use
- Marine Radio for Dummies
- Marine Radio - learning to use it
- Marine Radio - miscellaneous hints
- Marine Radio - organizing reference materials
- Marine Weather for Dummies
- Marine Weather - books
- Marine Weather - hints
- Marine Weather - links
- Marine Weather - radio nets
- Martinique - photo album page
- Mayday - boating emergency procedures
- Medical emergencies on a sailboat
- Miscellaneous boating tips
N- Naming Callipygia
- Nature - photographs
- Navigation - tips and how tos
- New England 600 Rally
O- Owner's manual for a boat
P - Passage Plan - sample for passage from Luperon to Bocqueron
- Photo Album - index of photographs
- Postcards while cruising from July 2002 - February 2003
Q
R- Radar - how to use it for navigation, weather, and safety
- Radar plotting for collision avoidance
- Radio - a few hints on marine radio
- Radio - Marine Radio for Dummies
- Radio - learning to use a marine radio
- Radio - nets, schedules and frequencies
- Radio - organizing reference materials
- Recipes
- Rigging failure - procedure for handling a rigging emergency
- Rubber bands, great uses for
S - Sailboat owner's manual
- Sailboat - choosing one for blue water and ocean cruising
- Sailboats we met - photographs
- Sanitation Plan - sample as required for coastguard inspection of a sailboat
- Sea Stories - books from our reading list
- Sea and Sky - photo album page
- Seabird photographs
- Seamount in the Atlantic between Bermuda and the Azores
- Ship's office
- Ship's Log part 1 (Boat Notes)
- Ship's Log part 2 (Book of Lists)
- Ship's Log part 3 (Deck Log)
- Ship's Log part 4 (Defect Book)
- Ship's Log part 5 (Engine Log)
- Ship's Log part 6 (Supply and Parts Inventory)
- Ship's Log part 7 (Equipment Inventory)
- Ship's Log part 8 (Maintenance Record)
- Ship's Log part 9 (Navigator's Notebook)
- Ship's Log part 10 (Radio Log)
- Ship's Log part 11 (Weather Log)
- Ship's Log - index of Travel Logs/Journals on Callipygia
- Shorebird photographs
- SSB - emergency use of the marine radio
- SSB - learning the marine radio
- Steering failure - what to do
T- Towing procedures
- Travel log - cruising in 2001
- Travel log - cruising in 2002
- Travel log - cruising in 2003
- Travel log - cruising in 2004
- Travel logs - index
U
W- Weather - all about marine weather
- What If? preparing for emergencies on a cruising sailboat
- Whisker Pole - using one on a sailboat
- Windvane - using a Monitor windvane
- Y
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This page was last modified on January 24, 2009
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Pat Watt (KG4QFQ)
This page was last modified on January 24, 2009
