The Monkey's Fist: Collecting Cruisers' Perspectives

The standard answer when someone asks, "What does cruising cost?" is "Whatever you've got." Amusing, perhaps, but not very helpful to someone who's trying to figure out what it's going to take for them to be able to live this particular dream.  Fortunately...

People blog for a variety of reasons such as documenting their transition from land life to cruising, sharing technical tips and tricks, recounting their adventures and misadventures, helping others who may follow in their footsteps, and staying connected...

(photo from here)
Apologies for the long silence; many of our topic coordinators have been too busy out having adventures to write about them. But we have several new topics in development (see box in upper left), and some exciting new bloggers/topic coordinators.  So...

The path of Starry Horizons.
Making the big leap across the Atlantic is pretty nerve-racking.  All circumnavigators have done it, and it helps new sailors calm their nerves by reading stories – good and bad! – about making a crossing of that size.
This topic's coordinator, Amy, Crossed the Atlantic Ocean on Starry Horizons, a 44' Helia catamaran, from Las Palmas to Miami, leaving Christmas morning, 2014....