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Forum: General Sailing Forum 31-01-2018, 15:32
Replies: 88
Views: 16,116
Posted By SailingTerrapin
Re: Craziest things and objects encountered on the water

While crossing the Pacific, we sailed past a floating shipping container with a pod of sperm whales swimming around it. Makes us wonder what was in the contain. We're also very thankful we didn't hit...
Forum: Families, Kids and Pets Afloat 18-01-2018, 19:32
Replies: 20
Views: 6,039
Posted By SailingTerrapin
Re: Cost of world crusing with 2 kids (4+7)

We've successfully cruised for almost 3 years with a $2k monthly budget for our family of four. We've sailed the Pacific side of Mexico and the South Pacific. We have been pleasantly surprised at how...
Forum: Families, Kids and Pets Afloat 29-08-2017, 20:43
Replies: 7
Views: 2,396
Posted By SailingTerrapin
Re: Homeschool options for highschoolers

If your children will be in public school during fall 2017, you may want to ask their teachers about continuing with the curriculum they will have started. Most educators/schools are willing to allow...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 13-08-2015, 08:10
Replies: 33
Views: 9,223
Posted By SailingTerrapin
15 Questions to answer to see if you're really ready to cruise.

In preparation for life aboard a sailboat we spent days, weeks, months and almost two years pouring over reference books and reading through cruising blogs. So many questions, concerns and wanting to...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 12-08-2015, 17:16
Replies: 38
Views: 16,221
Posted By SailingTerrapin
Re: The top 20 liveaboard sailing blogs

Unless you're planning on setting sail with kids. For us, adding kids to the equation changed everything. We checked out other family blogs for a few years before setting sail. There's so much more...
Forum: Families, Kids and Pets Afloat 12-08-2015, 16:59
Replies: 10
Views: 2,699
Posted By SailingTerrapin
Re: Planning to cruise

You'll have a harder time trying to cruise with 2 big dogs than the kids. We've met a few families along the way that regretted bringing their dog/s. Any time they wanted to go off on adventure or do...
Forum: Families, Kids and Pets Afloat 12-08-2015, 16:53
Replies: 25
Views: 5,895
Posted By SailingTerrapin
Re: Life Aboard With 2 Kids

Congratulations on your move to the boat. As others may have mentioned be prepared for change, lots of change for everyone onboard. I agree that chores appropriate to age are important for the kids....
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 06-06-2015, 10:32
Replies: 11
Views: 2,458
Posted By SailingTerrapin
Re: Haul out list help needed

Thanks...I forgot to put in Mexico from July-September...makes a huge difference.
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 06-06-2015, 10:20
Replies: 11
Views: 2,458
Posted By SailingTerrapin
Haul out list help needed

I'd like your input on what items need to be done in an effort to prepare for a 3 month haul out. Seems like everyone you ask has different ideas of what needs to be done before putting a boat on the...
Forum: Families, Kids and Pets Afloat 04-04-2015, 12:17
Replies: 16
Views: 3,681
Posted By SailingTerrapin
Re: Cats On Board...

For a second there, I thought you were talking about my family and I. We have a 15 year old cat on board. He does well. At 15 years old he has ZERO desire to leave the cockpit or venture anywhere. We...
Forum: Families, Kids and Pets Afloat 04-04-2015, 11:52
Replies: 32
Views: 6,400
Posted By SailingTerrapin
Re: Cruising with the family

We have a 9 and 11 year old, both girls on board. While there isn't a "perfect age" as everyone has different ideas of this...I felt that our girls were the perfect ages.

They're old enough to...
Forum: Fishing, Recreation & Fun 04-04-2015, 11:49
Replies: 0
Views: 1,409
Posted By SailingTerrapin
Car/ SUV needed in San Carlos, MX area

Hola Amigos,

SV Terrapin is hauling out at the end of June and heading up to the mountains of San Miguel De Allende from July-September. We are looking to either long term rent or buy a car to...
Forum: Marine Electronics 20-03-2015, 07:20
Replies: 0
Views: 1,085
Posted By SailingTerrapin
Navionics central america chart with raymarine C80 is way off

I have a raymarine C80 plotter and just recently plugged in the Central America (2005) CF card. It seems like the whole chart is at least a half mile off. So much so that the offset feature won't...
Forum: Dollars & Cents 12-03-2015, 18:22
Replies: 2
Views: 1,931
Posted By SailingTerrapin
Cost to Cruise

A decent source for finding out what different cruisers (families too) spend to cruise is sail loot.

Teddy from Sail Loot interviews various cruisers and talks all about budgets and their costs to...
Forum: Families, Kids and Pets Afloat 22-12-2014, 21:19
Replies: 18
Views: 9,816
Posted By SailingTerrapin
Fleas on board.

How do you get rid of flees on a boat? The only time our 15 year old cat has ever had flees. We've washed everything. Treated him with 2 flee baths and treated him twice with Advantage. We've also...
Forum: Families, Kids and Pets Afloat 18-11-2014, 20:30
Replies: 4
Views: 1,506
Posted By SailingTerrapin
Anyone in San Diego that can recommend a good vet

We'll need to get our cat ready to sail with shots, etc. We don't have an established vet as he's an indoor cat of 15 years and has never had a problem.

Could someone recommend us to a vet that...
Forum: Families, Kids and Pets Afloat 13-11-2014, 10:05
Replies: 9
Views: 2,702
Posted By SailingTerrapin
Our approach to boatschool curriculum

Of all the boat projects creating our daughters (ages 9 and 11) curriculum was the hardest. We opted to not buy "school in a box" from places like Calvert and go it alone.

Our latest blog post...
Forum: Marine Electronics 02-11-2014, 16:20
Replies: 2
Views: 1,166
Posted By SailingTerrapin
Re: Call sign question

Thanks. I was under the impression that RMS express would work for both SSB and Ham. Guess not!
Forum: Marine Electronics 02-11-2014, 14:55
Replies: 2
Views: 1,166
Posted By SailingTerrapin
Call sign question

I'm a total noob at this so please bear with me. I have an SSB radio on my boat that I don't really know how to use. The first thing I was told to do was get my operators permit and ship station...
Forum: Families, Kids and Pets Afloat 29-09-2014, 08:20
Replies: 16
Views: 4,886
Posted By SailingTerrapin
Re: Toys for liveaboard kids

We have lots of art materials, legos and Barbies.

In an effort to afford all the expensive "toys"; SUP's, kayaks, surfboards, etc. you may want to think about asking for sponsorship. We recently...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 06-08-2014, 16:33
Replies: 36
Views: 9,145
Posted By SailingTerrapin
Re: Over 10,000 hours on an original Perkins

Thanks. I like the idea of the oil test. I assume that I would be interested in the wear metal test? Water and antifreeze too? Somebody once recommended Blackstone Labs for an oil test. Any one...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 06-08-2014, 09:40
Replies: 36
Views: 9,145
Posted By SailingTerrapin
Re: Over 10,000 hours on an original Perkins

Sorry, not enough information in the original post...

We have a perkins 4.236. Right now, the engine runs perfectly. No smoke, always starts right up, no funny noises, etc.. It did get a bit...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 06-08-2014, 08:37
Replies: 36
Views: 9,145
Posted By SailingTerrapin
Over 10,000 Hours on an Original Perkins

Our original Perkins engine has 10,047 hours on it. Anyone else hear of a Perkins with this many?

Murphy's law says for us to buy a rebuild kit before we set off to cruise and we'll never need...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 03-08-2014, 14:25
Replies: 3
Views: 1,152
Posted By SailingTerrapin
Recommendations wanted for charging gadgets with solar

Cruising with kids means Ipads and Kindles will need to be charged. I blame it on the kids..but really I can't live without the Ipad.

What's a reliable solar charger brand for these types of...
Forum: Plumbing Systems and Fixtures 02-08-2014, 08:02
Replies: 3
Views: 2,183
Posted By SailingTerrapin
Re: Shur flo diaphragm pump troubleshooting

Sorry, should have mentioned that. My house batteries are crap and I am swapping out. I thought that 11 would be enough to run it, but it sounds like that may be the problem. I'll hook it up to a...
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