Creative Cruising Concepts

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Black Friday Deals

Now that we are back in the "land of stuff", we're cautiously adding new gadgets/gear. We haven't seen black friday deals before, so we are excited about saving some $$.

Amazon's Black Friday Deals

Even West Marine is getting into it
15% Off Sitewide Sale - use code BIG15 (valid 11/26 only)

10% Off Sitewide Sale - use code BIG10 (valid 11/27 to 11/30)

Garmin Nuvi 255W GPS. Lowest price on the web! New

New Gear for the Holidays!

Planning a Holiday vacation- get your FREE travel cards

Click here to order.

If we find any more deals we'll keep you posted.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

We've completed our trip so now it's time to live vicariously through everyone that's out there doing or dreaming about their adventure.

Check out our community blog where you can submit your favorite content..

and become a fan on our facebook page

For geeks .. I also run a couple of technology blogs

It's New to Me: A Technology Castaway Returns to "the Real World"

Chris’ Scratchpad: My collection of content, thoughts and ramblings that may end up in my other blogs.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Custom Clothing on Zazzle

SailBillabong on Zazzle

buy unique gifts at Zazzle

Got any ideas for t-shirts.. design your own

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Travel Gear for the Adventure

When you go off the beaten track, you really need good gear. When something breaks the chance of you finding a good replacement is VERY slim. You also want to enjoy the creature comforts of life, a nice DVD now and again, some music, good books etc. We have 5 years of experience with what works and what doesn't our there.. both sailing (30,000 miles) and driving around both New Zealand and Australia (15,000 miles).

We've reviewed lots of products for our What Works and Computers at Sea sections and have created a couple of stores to help you find/review products. Most have been "travel tested" during our sailing trip.

Gadgets That Make a Difference

Camera gear, galley storage, computer backup/accessories, clothing, watch timers, headlamps, books .. and more... they all make a difference... We started by documenting what works and added the store after we got lots of requests "where do I get ..."

Learn more - Cruising Clothing

We have many other sections with direct links on our What Works page or check out the Gadgets that make a Difference highlights.

Free Travel Cards

What do you need business cards for if your traveling or cruising? How about for all those new friends you'll make along the way ...

What better way to keep in touch then to hand out a card with your phone, email, and/or BLOG site? You can also use Vista Print to create your stamps, stationary, and more. See our Boat Card and Boat Stamp.

Custom Clothing

We even have our own custom shirt/bags etc at Zazzle. Fun designs by cruisers, for cruisers, day-sailors, and even land explorers. And because cruiser's tend to "be green" by necessity we've included some "go green" designs.

You can even design your own creations or shop for other unique one-of-a-kind designs. Check our Zazzle to get started.

Other eStores

There's More

We also have a page with all our affiliates. Remember buying through our affiliates doesn't cost you anything extra and it helps us keep all the free information coming.

See a note about our eStore.

Tip Jar

Personally I would buy something from the stores above but some of our "Followers" have asked for a tip jar... Here ya go!!

Saturday, November 8, 2008

Latest News

Ok we've had it for a while but never really used it as planned!!

Blogs are so much easier to update, and now that we have finished our season from Thailand through the Red Sea to Turkey, we may have some more time.

What's been keeping us busy?

BlurbBits is the biggest thing. Developing, testing .. bla bla bla. It's been a fun and someone painful process making the switch to windows programing (can't we all get along)!!

We also been using them is our Blogs

From The Galley (what is it .. best way is to show you)

Basically KT cooks some great meals, takes photos, and I get FAT!!

SV Billabong (our latest Blog w/Position)

We've updated the Broken links on some the CCC webpages, and added some new direct photo links to our Gadgets that make a Difference Amazon Store. Please realize we aren't like a lot of sites that throw up links based on what the end vendor decides. We have painfully reviewed all the products you'll see in the store and even tried to add our own comments where appropriate. I hope you'll check them out!!

Added a FAQ page on SailBillabong.com including cruising costs

Please let us know if you think something is missing or you'd like added or discussed.

Friday, November 7, 2008

Shop our e-Store

We receive lots of questions about what we would buy for XYZ, or where we would buy a certain product. As much as we would like to answer everyone's questions, it takes a lot of time and effort. What we wanted was a way to get something in return, without any cost to you. Working together with established companies we are setting up an e-Store that contains the products we recommend. We use our experience with what works to filter dizzying amount of information on the internet into a set of products we would buy. We think shopping at our e-Store will save you both time and money -- all you have to do is shop via our links.

Check Out our e-Store for more details

By Category

By Affiliate

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Gadgets that make a Difference

During our extended five year sailing trip we kept tracked of what worked and what didn't so we could help others who are planning on following in our path.

We've reviewed items, added our commments/suggestions and added them to an amazon a-store so you can find them.