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At The Boat Galley, we have only one mission: to make boat life better.
Everyone on The Boat Galley team is a liveaboard cruiser and we understand the challenges that come with life on a boat. When our team encounters frustration, we come up with practical and innovative solutions.
This is how we came to radically reinvent the cruising guide, how we developed better reference materials, and how we created affordable, in-depth online courses that help us share our extensive knowledge with you at your pace.
Try our products and see. If they don't make your boat life better, use our 30-day FREE no-hassle return guarantee.
Six Full-Length Courses
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- Eating Well With A Tiny Fridge
- Get Ready To Cruise The Bahamas
- Comprehensive Hurricane Preparation for Boaters
- Unwritten Rules Of The Cruising Life
- VHF Radios: Everything You Need to Know
- Storage Solutions For Life Aboard
All courses are primarily written with pictures where useful and a few audio clips; links and downloads are included when helpful. Each course has its own Facebook group to ask questions and exchange ideas.
✔ Lifetime access including all updates
✔ No scheduled times: go through the material when it's convenient for you
Plus:
- Storing Food Without Refrigeration (PDF) - also included in Eating Well Without Refrigeration
- The Boat Galley Cookbook Sample -- 33 recipes in 28 pages (not the full cookbook)
You'll also get a subscription to The Boat Galley Newsletter, a weekly email filled with information about living on a boat. Don't like it? You can unsubscribe at any time.
And no, we aren’t going to sell your email address or send you spam, because that’s not who we are.
The All-Access Pass includes all of our online courses plus bonus materials. You'll get login details onscreen immediately after purchase as well as by email a few minutes later.
Take each course whenever you want, as fast or slow as you want, in whatever order you want, and refer back to materials as often as you want. You'll have lifetime access to all, including all updates.
Everything is online; there is no shipping.
John Herlig (VHF Radios) and Carolyn Shearlock (all other items) are instructors at Cruisers University at the Annapolis Boat Shows. Both frequently write for various boating and cruising magazines.
John calls his 1967 Rawson 30 home when he's not helping deliver boats; he's sailed most of the East Coast of the US, Bahamas, and Caribbean.
Carolyn and her husband Dave have lived aboard two different boats for a total of 15 years. They've cruised over 14,000 miles in the Sea of Cortez, Pacific Mexico and Central America, and more recently Florida and the Bahamas.
The six primary courses are expanded versions of the courses John and Carolyn teach at Cruiser's University.





"As a total newbie, I must say these courses are amazing. Tons of information to learn and organized well. I’ve learned so much!"
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I have just started the modules, but so far the information given is clear and concise, and broken down into lessons that are easy to understand. As you progress you build upon your knowledge. Very happy with lessons.
At first I was a little overwhelmed by all the information….but that the beauty of it!! It a resource I can keep going back to!
Thank you 💙⛵️
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