Bear and Kit lived aboard and cruised in their yacht, Volant, from May 1993 until May 2005 when Bear passed away following surgery. Kit sold Volant in March of 2007. If you would like to find out more about Bear's encounter with cancer, click on Bear's Latest Dispatches. For quick access to those web pages on this site that are either all new or contain significant updates that were posted during the last update or previous updates, click on What's New. To view photos from their travels, click on Photo Gallery. If you want to learn more about their boat, click on About Volant. If you want to learn more about Bear and Kit, click on About Kit and Bear. To read about their past and current exploits, click on About Their Cruises. To find out where they are in their travels and how to contact them by email or snail mail, click on Where They Are Now. If you would like to find out about their slideshow, click on Have Slideshows, Will Travel. If you want to find some more web sites of interest to them, click on Links. For a collection of articles that they have written on various nautical subjects, click on This 'n' That.

Bear has also written a series of published articles on the origin of nautical terms. If you want to read any of those articles, click on Sailor Talk.

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