Making New Friends - resources for cruising sailors

Cooking with Oma & Opa

[Site]

By Roger Brandt

How to eat well and make friends by organizing a Spanish-style beach cook-out. A fire in a sand pit, food contributed from each boat, and driftwood tables make for a highly social meal. Includes a recipe for chicken and tomato stew.

[Bluewater Books & Charts, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA]
- Read about cruisers' socials

Finding a Sailing Mate

[Article]

Brief How-To By Michelle Potter
Finding a Sailing Mate

When it comes to luring others to sail with you, here are a few Don′ts.

[SailNet, 9 April 2003]
- Guests on a cruising sailboat

Crew

[Offline]

Brief How-To Crew

Useful thoughts on inviting/hiring crew for cruising

[Blue Water Sailing, December 2002]
- Order the Blue Water Sailing back issue

The Culture of Cruisers

[Site]

Personal Website By Mindi Miller

Thoughts on the language, society, lifestyle, etiquette, social structure, and other aspects of the serious cruising fraternity.

[Lee Gunter and Mindi Miller, USA]
- The cruising lifestyle

Gifts

[Offline]

Detailed how-to Gifts

Things to take with you for rewarding help and hospitality

[Cruising World, February 2000]
- Order the Cruising World back issue

It's the People We Meet

[Site]

By Michel & Jane DeRidder It's the People We Meet

A 40-year-liveaboard couple talk about their cruising friends and their great diversity.

[SetSail.com, Charlotte, NC, USA]
- Making friends while cruising

Potluck Picnic Pointers

[Site]

Personal Website By Barbara Theisen

The advantages of potluck dinners, happy hours, or grill-ups for making friends in an anchorage or marina. Here are two recipes the author recommends.

[The Cruising Life, Vero Beach, FL, USA]
- Read the article on line

How to Meet People

[Offline]

Brief how-to By Lin and Larry Pardey
How to Meet People

Short list of pointers on meeting the locals as you travel. Excerpts from the authors′ book The Cost-Conscious Cruiser.

[Cruising World, July 2000]
- Order the Cruising World back issue

Making Friends While Cruising

[Article]

Brief How-To By Sue & Larry
Making Friends While Cruising

VHF greetings or dinghy visits, children or pets, an offer of help or hospitality or a plan to buddy-boat to the next port - the authors discuss these and other ways to make friends along the way.

[SailNet, 23 January 2003]
- Read about making friends

Singles on Sailboats

[Vendor]

Membership organization

Organizes sailing related activities for singles, including day sails, weekend and extended cruises, sailing education, and social functions at sea and ashore. Focused in and around Annapolis and the middle of the Chesapeake Bay

[Singles on Sailboats, Inc., Great Falls, VA, USA]
- The Singles on Sailboats website

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