Piriapolis to Cape Town
I arrived in Cape Town today, Monday 23rd July 2012, just after 1pm. Skip picked me up at the airport took me to my apartment for this season where we dropped my bags and then straight down to the Shozalosa …
For some time now I have slowly come to realise that Facebook is not a very good way for me to communicate with my friends, family and followers. When I am at sea I don’t have any access to Facebook, …
Deep into the past
Today I’m off to Montevideo to start looking into church and public records to see if I can find any information on the marriage of my Great Great Grandparents. They were married in Uruguay in 1868 and had their first …
Instrument display readability
I’ve been having a discussion with Ben over on Panbo over the good and bad sides of the slew of new colour graphic display sailing and boating instruments that the various manufacturers are rolling out. Whilst I think the potential for great …
The twenty year refit
I came across this this article by Mathew Marsh of Marsh Design where he laments the fancy high tech but cheap (as in poor quality) equipment often fitted to production boats. I couldn’t agree more.