The underwater world is a beautiful part of the cruising life, both for fun and out of necessity. Here’ s one couple’s story of bringing diving into their new cruising boat.
As a solo sailor, my husband Larry Roberts took a Scuba course, thinking it would be a handy way to solve some underwater hull problems on Traversay II. I came along as a dive buddy, and when the time came to build Traversay III, we had already made at least 70 dives together in both warm and cold water. We’d taken advanced PADI courses, marine creature identification courses and we’d taken dive charters on other people’s boats.
So in building Traversay III, we knew we wanted to be able to dive almost anywhere we could anchor safely. We had a list of necessities, which were communicated to and understood by Waterline Yachts in Sidney, BC, and they made us not only a marvelous dive boat, but a wonderful all-round steel vessel. Much of our equipment room is taken up with the Bauer dive compressor and storage bins for both warm and cold water dive gear. The aft port hatch of the boat is left open when we’re filling tanks to cool the compressor. We ensure ‘safe air’ by drawing air in from outside. Read more.
