May/June 2020
Sustainable Sailing BEAUTIFUL BRUNY ISLAND
South to a Sailing Life SHIPYARD IN A PANDEMIC
Koh Lipe
Cruising Home Waters PLUS Barge Boats, Dogs Who Sail, Art, and much more! SisterShip 1
COVER: Edgecumbe Bay, Queensland, Australia (Shelley Wright).
Contents Features
Lockers
6
Then and Now: SisterShip 1989 and 2020
3
Real Women on the Water
8
Advantages of Cruising Home Waters
4
The Bowsprit: Editorial
13
South to a Sailing Life
23
Flat Bottomed Girl: Barge Boats
17
On Land, With Uncertainty
38
Artist Afloat: Sarah Gayle
29
Fun Vibes and Visas in Koh Lipe
42
Sustainable Sailing
36
SisterShip Revisited: Sarah Miller
46
From the Galley
40
Shipyard in a Pandemic
49
Dogs Who Sail
58
Bruny Island Photo Essay
53
Barefoot Boating Blunderment
66
Book Club
67
Market Place
12
40 Published by: SeaScribe Pty Ltd.
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Celebrating real women on the water Send your ‘Real Women’ photos to editor@sistershipmagazine.com
MADELEINE BRYANT from the USA sent these photos going through Port St Lucie lock in the ICW in Florida. Madeleine says, “I captain a 1986 Endeavour 35 sailboat called Knot Vanilla. This was my first lock on my sailboat”.
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