Comms / Safety Equipment are a Chang’ing
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Category: Communications
Ready for South Pacific Run Tomorrow?
Yes we are, or as well as we can be. What do we think you need to do when you get ready for a non-stop 3,000 mile passage? Passage planning While we intend to leave Panama from La Playita Marina, … Continue reading Ready for South Pacific Run Tomorrow?
We bought a Starlink
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Hello Bocas Del Toro!
Don and I have been in Bocas now for 2 months. We realize we like staying in a place long enough to recognize not only folks in the anchorage, but in the town as well. Tali visited us! Bocas isn’t … Continue reading Hello Bocas Del Toro!
I blew my Pū!
Ever since I harvested our one and only Trident Conch (named after the God of the Sea Poseidon and Amphitrite’s son Trident, messenger of the sea and merman), I’ve longed to make it into a Pū. Here’s the family 15 … Continue reading I blew my Pū!
Red is bad, blue is good, green is us!
So, in follow up to my last post about daily check-ins via SSBs, when in transit, boats must monitor Channel 16 on the maritime mobile band very high frequency (VHF) radio for emergency communications like May Day. Of course, sailors … Continue reading Red is bad, blue is good, green is us!
Our first radio chat room!
We were able to check in for the first time on our single sideband radio (SSB), to the 8:15 am SSCA and 8:30 am EST Cruiseheimer’s chat rooms of sorts. This is a time each day where cruisers around the … Continue reading Our first radio chat room!
15 years later I redeem myself!
31:00:00 left. Before our last cruise in 2002 at an SSCA nautical flea market, I found a Pactor modem to transmit data over long distances (so you get email in the middle of the ocean) . Removing my hand for … Continue reading 15 years later I redeem myself!