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More Than you Really Wanted To Know About Cruising Outpost  #6

More Than you Really Wanted To Know About Cruising Outpost #6

More Than you Really Wanted To Know About Cruising Compost … Er, I mean Outpost! #6 – The Cruising Outpost Extended Family By Bob Bitchin I have often been called naïve because I refer to our readers as extended family.  It’s actually pretty funny, but over the 35 years I have been living aboard, cruising [...]

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More Than you Really Wanted To Know About Cruising Compost, Er, I mean Outpost! #5 – Our Staff Infection.  Those who toil…

More Than you Really Wanted To Know About Cruising Compost, Er, I mean Outpost! #5 – Our Staff Infection. Those who toil…

More Than you Really Wanted To Know About Cruising Compost, Er, I mean Outpost! #5 – Our Staff Infection.  Those who toil… By Bob Bitchin This is my country,
The land that begat me.
These windy spaces
Are surely my own.
And those who toil here,
In the sweat of their faces
Are flesh of my flesh,
And bone of my bone. [...]

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More Than you Really Wanted To Know About Cruising Compost, Er, I mean Outpost! – Part 4

More Than you Really Wanted To Know About Cruising Compost, Er, I mean Outpost! – Part 4

By Bob Bitchin Virtual Offices Equals a Better Magazine – Here’s Why… One of the questions we get a lot from potential cruisers is, “How can we continue to earn while we are out there cruising?”  Usually we get this question with the idea of writing for a magazine (Cruising Outpost!) to supplement their income.  [...]

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More Than you Really Wanted To Know About Cruising Compost, Er, I mean Outpost! Part 3

More Than you Really Wanted To Know About Cruising Compost, Er, I mean Outpost! Part 3

By Bob Bitchin The Unbelievable Story of How Cruising Outpost came into being… It all started with our Founders Circle The story of how Cruising Outpost came into being could be a book in itself.  There are villains, hero’s, disasters and as always needed, a happy ending. Once upon a time there was a couple [...]

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Getting Old is Mandatory – Growing up is Optional

Getting Old is Mandatory – Growing up is Optional

Inside Cruising Outpost: More Than you Really Wanted To Know About Cruising Outhouse,  Er, I mean Outpost! Getting Old is Mandatory – Growing up is Optional By Bob Bitchin When I was creating the new Cruising Outpost there was one thing I had at the very top of my list of what’s missing in boating [...]

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More Than You Really Wanted To Know About Cruising Compost, Er, I Mean Outpost!

More Than You Really Wanted To Know About Cruising Compost, Er, I Mean Outpost!

By Bob Bitchin Here’s an email I got from Phil G. on Jan. 19, 2013, an old Lats & Atts reader, and it started me thinking, a lot of people can’t read my alleged mind, and don’t know why we do certain things in the new Cruising Outpost Magazine. So I figured it would be [...]

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Fearing The Unknown

Fearing The Unknown

Have you ever noticed how many really great boats sit in their slips every weekend, week after week, month after month and year after year? There is a reason for that. Not a good one, but a reason none the less. Fear. Fear has kept more adventures from happening than any other single thing. What’s [...]

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Northwest Cruiser’s Party

Northwest Cruiser’s Party

  This year the Pacific Northwest Cruiser’s event was in Port Everett WA. The event was organized by the Brethern of the Sound, and our offical Queen of 2012 was Carrie Tibbets. This video was taken on Friday afternoon on the party barge at 12 street yacht basin. There are 12 cannon’s all firing in [...]

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Live Your Life

Live Your Life

I was  awakened by a noise, but I was not sure what that noise was.  All I know is  something was out of whack.  I pulled the blanket up tight, as I remembered where I was.  I’d been at sea for a week, sailing from Mexico to Hawaii.  I remembered that I had the 2am [...]

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