Trying a boat: the purchase between heart and brain
Yachts’ brokers do not sell boats, they sell dreams and from dreams, you know it, you can wake up very disappointingly. Buying a sailboat requires, in a way, an act of faith: the conviction that the winds will always blow in our favour and that…
Sailors’ things: 9 reasons to want to be a sailor
You are a cool guy, there is no doubt, and you are successful in every field of life: you have an amazing job, a nice house, an enviable car and an even more enviable girlfriend. You have travelled a lot, you have made great experiences…
Check-list: creation of a life-saving instrument
Perhaps not everyone knows that there is an almost direct relationship between an aircraft take-off and coronary bypass surgery. A relationship that has become evident when the World Health Organization’s Patient Safety Programme has developed an initiative to improve surgery safety worldwide. The airline industry…
Sailing with skeleton crew: some tips
Recently, a combination of factors created a real explosion of the practice of sailing in pairs or in small families that sail on boats of some importance. This factors are mostly three: first of all there is the Covid-19 pandemic, which has lead – personal…
Sail care: chapter two
Still on the topic of sail care. Not a case I used the word “care” instead of “maintenance”: what I tried to do in the first chapter and will do here again, is trying to widening the view speaking a little more broadly on how…
Safety first: lessons from the aviation industry
Safety and wellness both of the crew and the boat are the primary responsibilities of each commander, with no exception. You can bet that every skipper will confirm that. Yet, it is almost impossible to find an investigation report in case of marine casualty that…
For each other: choosing the boat that (really) suits us
In every keen sailor’s heart there is, without doubts, the dream of buying their own boat. There’s no denying that, being ship owner of their “own beauty”, taking care and customizing her personally, and being able to dispose of it whenever and as you wish,…
Change of course: sailing as a metaphor of life
A common mistake when thinking about sailing is to believe the boat to be a confined space we have to embark on, one in contact with the others. Hence all the fears linked to coexistence and all the urban legends (actually, marine) on the furious…
Good boating practices: “Sailing”
Now here is part three of this excursus through Good Boating Practices. After pondering on how to develop a sustainable behaviour when moored in a marina and how to implement green boat maintenance, it is now time to set sail showing an eco-sailing approach. As…
Office on board: smart working sailing
The year 2020 brought – among other things – a novelty that has brutally entered the life of many of us, and that is destined to stay with us for a little while longer: remote working. This new modality is involving millions of people around…
I cross over: how to prepare an atlantic crossing
Crossing the Atlantic is a dream, but even preparing to live the dream can be daunting. For anyone embarking in a “deep water” adventure, months and weeks before the departure might be stressful. There is an endless list of work, while combining job and family…
Guests on board: etiquette and unrwitten rules in hosting
During this period of uncertainty, a sailing holiday could be one of the safest options for a family unit or a group of friends of “proven origin” that didn’t want to crowd with hundreds of people in a resort or on a beach. Hence why…
