In this episode, we interview Sarah Steenland, The Cruising Cartoonist and her kids as they cruise Southeast Asia. We have some more sailing / cruising news and our featured product will help make sure you never have to worry about expired signal flares.
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Intro Chat
We have we been? Last show was after hurricane Irma last September. As much as we wanted to get some shows out, we have been too busy with other activities. We have done a couple boat trips, Cocoa beach area, St. Johns river trip over new years weekend. Gasparilla pirate weekend in Indian Rocks Beach. Steve even built a cannon for the boat! No wonder we don’t put out podcasts!
Steve took over two additional areas at work so he is spending a lot of time in Atlanta and Nashville.
And we have been busy with non-boat travel with trips to the Smoky Mountains, Nashville and Las Vegas
We have an upcoming trip to the Abacos in the Bahamas, Marsh Harbour and Hope Town / Elbow Cay
Steve re-started work on his sailing canoe and we hope to be sailing it before year end.
Brandy receive great news on her leukemia and we are praying that she will be off her medication by the end of the year and truly cancer free!
Brandy started a new health and fitness business. If you are interested in a great workout and nutrition program then send her a note at crew@thesailingrode.com
Our Amazon store is being rebuilt. Check it out at the link in the menu at the top of our site. Let us know if it works better for you and if you have any products your recommend for us to include.
Sarah Steenland – The Cruising Cartoonist
Sarah and her family are cruising Southeast Asia in their boat Sea Monkey
Check out all her Coconut Telegraph cruising cartoons and really cool website here.
Get all the latest updates on the family’s cruising adventures and their environmental projects on Sydney and Indy’s Sea Monkey Broadcasting News!
Sailing & Cruising News
- Worlds Oldest Depiction of a Boat found in Norway
- SCCA successful in withdrawal of Florida Anchoring law
- NOAA launching sailboat drones to monitor the Pacific Ocean
- Couple who sank their boat and life savings after two days are donated a better boat
- John Fisher – lost at sea during Volvo Ocean Race
Product of the Week
We recently realize our emergency flares were expired on the boat. In fact they were expired over a year. Luckily we were never stopped by the Coast Guard. Since we do all coastal cruising, we decided a new LED distress flare from Weems and Plath. They never expire and run on a couple standard “C” batteries. We kept the expired aerial flares as they will likely still work, but it is nice not to have to worry about expired flares.
Amazon Prime Video of the Week
Great free sailing movies if you are an Amazon Prime Member
The Weekend Sailor is a great sailing documentary about the 1974 around the world race and the unlikely entry from a mexican businessman and his family. Brandy and I really enjoyed it.
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Thanks for listening and all your support! We wish you fair winds and hope to see you on the water soon.
– Steve & Brandy
The Sailing Rode / The Sailing Road
