Onyx: The Cruising Kitty (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781537642321)

Daria and Alex Blackwell are lifelong sailors. They spent years cruising the East coast of the US discovering and writing about many beautiful destinations. They now live in Kilmeena, half way between Westport and Newport, on Clew Bay, Co. Mayo, Ireland. They sail a Bowman 57 cutter rigged ketch in which they have crossed the Atlantic three times to date visiting many countries and islands along the way (with Onyx). They have sailed up and down the West coast of Ireland from Cork to Donegal, and consistently cruise among the west coast islands. Alex is a commercial Master Mariner and on advisory committees to the Irish Sailing Association. Alex and Daria are members of the Irish Cruising Club, of the Ocean Cruising Club, and serve as Port Officers for the West Coast of Ireland; Daria serves as OCC Committee Member, PR Officer and Chairman of the Digital Communications Subcommittee. They are also members of Mayo Sailing Club, American Yacht Club, the Cruising Association, Trans Ocean eV, and the Seven Seas Cruising Association, for which they serve as Cruising Station for Ireland. Alex and Daria are co-authors of Cruising the Wild Atlantic Way, which is unlike any other guidebook to the west of Ireland. It covers the coast from Cork to Donegal from the perspectives of both sea and land. They also wrote Happy Hooking - The Art of Anchoring, which is the best-selling book on anchoring on Amazon. They offer a course on boat anchoring through NauticEd and deliver webinars worldwide for Seven Seas University and the Great Lakes Cruising Club. Alex and Daria are widely published in sailing magazines on both sides of the Atlantic. They are the founders of Sail4Kids Make a Memory Cruise. Their blog can be accessed via their website www.coastalboating.net or at: http: //aleriasadventures.blogspot.ie. Alex, who holds a Master's degree in Marine Biology, is also the author of two novels The Butterfly Effect; It Started on 9/11, The Brotherhood; Acquisition of Power and an oyster cookbook, Oyster Delight. For more information on Daria and Alex' writing, go to: www.whiteseahorse.ie Where Dreams Take Flight and Become Reality For information on cruising, etc., visit: The Boater's Resource for Things to Know and Places to Go, www.coastalboating.net