Project Cruiser’s Life 04: Margie Hewes + Bob Balman on SV Blessed Life

04. Interview with Margie Hewes & Bob Balman on SV Blessed Life/USA.

After cruising Mexico for 8 months on a Catalina 30 in 2012 and traveling the US for a couple of years with a camper truck, this athletic couple fell in love with kite surfing and wants to cruise the worlds kite surfing spots. We met them in San Diego, where they finished outfitting their new boat to sail to Hawaii and beyond in spring of 2015.

This is the 4th in a series of interviews with full time cruisers about their life, the reality of cruising, their experiences and dreams. When we started thinking about sailing around the world, we searched the internet for information on how it really is and we took every chance we got to talk to sailors and cruisers. While we were outfitting our boat in a marina in San Diego, we filmed our first interviews and continued after we cut the lines. The 11 questions frame what we wanted to know. We hope you find the information valuable and inspirational.

11 Questions for Cruisers

  1. Name, age, nationality?
  2. Boat name, size, type?
  3. Years of cruising? Coming from and going to?
  4. Motivation for cruising?
  5. Greatest moment?
  6. Scariest moment?
  7. Sacrifices and gains?
  8. Self-suffiency?
  9. Tip. What would you have done differently?
  10. Moment/day of leaving?
  11. Dream destination?

Enjoy! And a big thank you to all interviewees for their openness and candor!

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