Information about Bluewater Cruising
What does it cost to go long distance sailing? What are the preparation costs? What equipment do you need to have? And what paperwork? When we started to dream about going on a long distance sailing adventure there are a lot of questions that pop up and in these subpages we will try to summarize how we have done things and our experiences.
From here you can find the following information:
Equipment
Preparation costs
Paperwork
Cost for sailing
Our Route
We hope that by posting this, we will help future sailors plan their trips. Just want to highlight that we are no experts, just done a trip like this once. But when we planned this trip we read several different blogs/webpages and so on, and we think it is good to have different peoples opinions/experiences and then you can adapt it to yourself. All boats and crews are different and in the end, you are the one that know what’ll be best for your sailboat and crew. 🙂
Other than the pages mentioned above here is a list of blog posts we have written that might contain some useful information:
Crossings
- Sailing over Bay of Biscay in October
- Our sail from Lagos to Canary Islands
- Canary islands to Cape Verde crossing
- Atlantic Crossing – Part 1
- Atlantic Crossing – Part 2
- Atlantic Crossing West-> East – Part One
- Atlantic Crossing West to East – Part Two
- Atlantic Crossing West -> East – Part Three
- Sailing from the Azores to UK
- Sailing across the North Sea
Canals
Paperwork
- Insurance for Cruising Sailboat
- Waiting for test results at Young Island
- Enter UK with sailboat after Brexit
Challenging sailing
- Sailing past the shipping lanes to the English Channel
- Sailing through huge waves along coast of Portugal
- Sailing through the Menai strait
Other
- A visit by the coastguards…
- Refill gas bottles in Canary Islands (Lanzarote)
- Chill/prep days at Gran Canaria
If you want to read all blog post from our sailing adventure, all of them are listed under the page Our route and if you want to read all our blog posts before departure, when we renovated and prepared the boat, all those blog posts are listed under Preparations before departure.
Hope you find what we have written here helpful 🙂