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• Travel Information Page. Disease-related reference material for international travel, including vaccine recommendations, health-care provider information, announcements of disease outbreaks, geographical health info, and prevention techniques.
  
  
• Tips on preparing for long distance cruising: boat modification and pre-departure check-lists.
  
  
• Sailing Yachts and Ballast Water Convention information with a draft for Guidelines for Equivalence Compliance with the Convention by Pleasure and Search and Rescue Craft.
  
  
• Why sail a cruising catamaran?
  
  
• Tips on handling sailing cruising catamaran in heavy weather.
  
  
• Large database of long-distance cruising sailing information.
  
  
• Ideas and suggestions for long distance cruising [equipment, preparations, safety, and destinations].
  
  
• Download free Cruisers' Dictionary, including Cruisers' frequently asked questions and answers.
  
  
• When you are cruising in tropical waters (35°N to 35°S) and eat fish you catch yourself, you need to be aware of the risks of ciguatera poisoning. First herbivorous reef fish eats poisonous algae. The reef fish is then consumed by bigger carnivorous fish, which pass the poison up along the food chain.
  
  All fish are not poisonous, this occurs only sporadically. Generally it's non-fatal and of short duration. Ciguatera poisoning is most commonly associated with groupers, barracudas, snappers, jacks, mackerel, and triggerfish.
  
  Internationally it's most prevalent in: (N and NE) Australia, the Caribbean, and South Pacific Islands. A company in Hawaii, Cigua Check, has a chemical testing kit. Links to further information:
  
  • Ciguatera
    
  • Treatment
  
  
• Medical advice for long distance cruisers by a cruising medical doctor.
  
  
• Free medical help for seafarers by HF radio.
  
  
• The Ship Captain's Medical Guide, free download (PDF). The guide is a good medical "assistant", especially during long distance cruising.