Beth Leonard and Evan Starzinger’s Web Site:

With this website we hope to share our joy in living the cruising life and to provide information that could be useful to other cruisers.

Links shown below will take you to:

A brief description of our background

Details on our two boats, s/v Hawk & s/v Silk, and our top rated gear

Where we are now; where we are planning to go next and notes on some of our favorite places

A schedule of Beth's slide shows & seminars and overview of her topics

Copies of some of the most interesting articles we have written

Details on and an opportunity to buy Beth's three books: The Voyager's Handbook, Blue Horizons, Following Seas.

Useful links and FAQs

A gallery of voyaging photos

Home,

Beth & Evans,

S/V Silk,

Where are we,

2008 Latest Plan: Jan-Sept 2008 in the Beagle canal and near by Chilean channels , then head toward S. Georgia, and from there probably running up the Atlantic to the Caribbean late in the year.

2007 Chile, Gambier Islands 23°S 135°W, Costa Rica, Mexico,

2006 USA_West, California, Canada_West, Vancouver

2005 USA_West, Washington State, Canada_West, Prince Rupert, Honolulu, Hawaii , South Island, New Zealand,

2004 North Island, New Zealand, Tasmania, Australia,

2003 Tasmania, Western Australia

2002 Chile

2001 Staten Island, Uruguay, Iceland, Faroe Islands, ireland

2000 ireland, Scotland, US Virgin Islands, Antigua, St Martin, The Saintes, Guadeloupe

Future cruising,

Favorite places,

Favorite places overview,

Chile,

Argentina,

Queen Charlottes,

Newfoundland,

St. Helena,

Scotland,

Best of Cruising,

Other Places

Antigua outside of English, Falmouth and Jolly Harbors

Antarctic notes by John Neil & Amanda Swan (www.mahina.com) and Antarctic2 by Coryn and Tony Gooch & Chris West

Costa Rica

Faeroe Islands

Five Great Capes

Iceland

Ireland

Mayan (2mb pdf) - Long (79 page) write-up on our expedition to see Mayan ruins in southern Mexico

Mexico

New Zealand

Milk Run Guide by Ken Machtley & Cathy Siegismund aboard S/V Felicity; a set of notes for the Pacific crossing

Pacific Panama & Colon notes from Doug and Judy Decker s/v Limerence - somewhat dated since the situation in Panama is changing so rapidly but still helpful.

Southern Australia

Southern Ocean

Beth's Seminars,

Articles,

Beth's Books,

Voyager's Handbook,

Blue Horizons,

Following Seas,

CD of Articles,

FAQs,

Photo Gallery,

Contact

Links,

www.sunstonesailing.com Tom & Vicky Jackson, S/V Sunstone

www.inthepresentsea.com Webb Chiles, S/V Hawke

www.handsacrossthesea.net TL and Harriet, who have just built a new Catamaran in Brazil

www.morganscloud.com John Harries & Phyllis Nickel, S/V Morgan's Cloud

www.LandLPardey.com Lin & Larry Pardey, S/V Taleisin

www.yachtfiona.com Eric Forsyth, S/V Fiona

www.taonui.com Tony Gooch, S/V Taonui

www.svsarah.com/Whoosh/Whoosh%20Main%20Page.htm Jack & Patricia Tyler, S/V Whoosh

www.esmeralde.net Bruce & Dorsey Beard, S/V ESMERALDE

www.oyster56.com Bradley Rosenberg & Kathy Clark, S/V Shear Madness

www.setsail.com/c_central/c_central.html Steve & Linda Dashew, M/V Windhorse

www.billybudd.info/ Our good friends Clive & Laila running the Oyster 72 BillyBudd (click on the "Billy Budd" on the first page)

www.cruisingclub.org The Cruising Club of America

www.ssca.org The Seven Seas Cruising Association

www.oceancruisingclub.org The Ocean Cruising Club

www.sailing.org/specialregs/ International Sailing Federation, specifically links to their "Offshore special regulations", which are a very useful guide for outfitting any offshore boat.

www.saildocs.com Source of free weather GRIBs

www.sailmail.com Non-profit providing e-mail over SSB services

http://image-ination.com/sailcalc.html a calculator for all sort of boat ratios, optimal prop sizes, etc

www.healthcareinternational.com/international-insurance-products.php Company selling reasonably priced health insurance tailored to cruising sailors

www.wxtide32.com Excellent free worldwide tides and currents program

www.Noonsite.com Information on cruising locations

www.expeditionsail.com Hamish & Kate Laird, S/V Seal, Charters to high latitude locations

www.mahina.com John Neil & Amanda Swan, S/V Mahina Tiare III, offshore instruction while passage-making

www.tooluka.nl/verhalen.php?id=18&taal=UK&code=ZM Eef and Ken doing high latitude charters

www.pdfpad.com/flags Print free flags of the world - useful for making courtesy flags

www.chilefarmholidays.com Ian and Maggy Staples, cruisers who settled in on a farm in Chile and have holiday cottages available

www.globalmarinenet.net We use their XGate product for compression on our Iridium phone. They also have various weather products

www.captdrdave.com David W. LaVigne, D.V.M., aboard S/V Fidelis, wilderness veterinary advice

http://wefax.de/ A page providing comprehensive information on weatherfax

www.mcmaster.com/ Industrial supplies of all sorts

www.primetimeshortwave.com Worldwide English Language Shortwave broadcast schedule

http://www.powerstream.com/tech.html Excellent discussion of all sorts of battery issues

http://www.itwplexus.com/home.html Super excellent adhesive

http://64.70.221.24/DiscBoard/ SSCA sponsored board

www.cs-bb.com/forums/CSBB/index.cgi Cruising Sailor board

www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/home.htm NOAA marine weather page

http://www.passageweather.com/ pretty good passage-making weather charts

http://www.accuweather.com/world-index.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0 Quick weather around the world

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/satellite.shtml Great site for Sat pictures which are useful for doldrum crossings

www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/shtml/A_brief.shtml All sorts of Atlantic weather info at a glance

www.sailflow.com Good for local racing wind forecasts

https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/PUBLIC/WXMAP/index.html Navy weather chart index

https://www.navo.navy.mil additional navy data

http://buoyweather.com/index.jsp Buoy Weather

http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/index.html A variety of information not found on other sites
http://www.boatma.com/bouy.html NOAA bouy data for east coast
www.wunderground.com/MAR/ "Weather Underground's" marine weather page

http://manati.orbit.nesdis.noaa.gov/quikscat/ "near real time" ocean wind maps (by direct sat measurement)

www.metservice.co.nz New Zealand Met Service

www.bom.gov.au Australia Met Service

http://www.directemar.cl/clima/servimet/carta.jpg Chile surface chart

http://www.directemar.cl/clima/servimet/genmeteo.html Chile text forecast

www.csus.edu/indiv/f/foxs/jour122/My%20Weather%20Sources.htm Comprehensive links for Pacific Weather

www.worldclimate.com Tells you what the 'normal' weather almost any place around the world

www.franksingleton.clara.net/home.html Useful 'how to get and use marine weather forecasts' page

http://marine.rutgers.edu/mrs/data.html Gulf stream charts

http://rads.tudelft.nl/gulfstream/ More gulf stream charts

https://www.navo.navy.mil/LIBRARY/Metoc/Atlantic/Regional+NATL/SATANAL/OFA/Color+Composite/index.html Yet another gulf stream chart. Microsoft Explorer wants to block this site but it's ok to unblock it.

www.nlmoc.navy.mil/cgi-bin/main.pl?ocean a black and white version of the above navy chart of the gulf stream

www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/lanina/ page focused on El Nino/La Nina effect

WWW.USCG.MIL/LANTAREA/IIP/HOME.HTML USCG Ice reports

www3.sympatico.ca/hehilgen/vax498.htm Herb Hilgenberg provides daily N Atlantic weather on SSB 12359.0, starting at 2000 UTC

www.nga.mil/portal/site/maritime/ Pilot charts, sailing directions, etc.

http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/nsd/coastpilot.htm US coastal pilot books, charts ,etc

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/ All sorts of celestial data and publications

http://www.irbs.com/bowditch/ Bowditch free on line in pdf format

http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/notes_and_information/notes_and_information_home.htm USCG information

http://www.amver.com/2007October.htm map which shows worldwide ship density

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html "World Fact book" from the CIA