The more eagle eyed amongst the legions of followers here will have noticed I have been tinkering round with things a bit. Crucially there is now a list of a few links and a chance to follow by email.
Look out, I may enable ad clicking next and become an overnight millionaire from all the click throughs you will bring here!
Thursday 23 February 2012
The Cruising Wiki
It had to come! I had been toying with the idea of using the Mediawiki software to deliver a cruising guide and someone has of course beaten me to it. Although wikis are fraught with problems as witnessed by the shenanigans experienced by Wikipedia it is a very useful way of collaboratively delivering factual content and is, in many ways, ideally suited to cruising guides.
The real problem is going to be getting the content when out of range of internet providers. We do not intend to carry oodles of sattelite technology such as is carried by the round the world racing fraternity who are able to update their blogs and all sorts from the depths of the southern ocean. Anyway, this project deserves as much support as possible.
The real problem is going to be getting the content when out of range of internet providers. We do not intend to carry oodles of sattelite technology such as is carried by the round the world racing fraternity who are able to update their blogs and all sorts from the depths of the southern ocean. Anyway, this project deserves as much support as possible.
Wednesday 22 February 2012
Visited Sarah G
Well, we have just got back from a visit and a generally enjoyable time though coming back was just as difficult as last October. We didn't achieve much at all in terms of works on the boat but we had a nice relaxing time and did some more planning.
The view of "The Rock" is particularly impressive at night from the boat.
This year's cruising is now taking shape in a more definite way. We have shied away from trying to make it to Sardinnia and Corsica. Instead, we are going to head back west to Portugal and revisit much more slowly the south coast of Portugal (the bits we liked) and Spain. This will involve about a month of river crawling mainly as we intend to explore up the Guadiana and Guadalquivir. We will then head on into the Mediteranean and work swiftly past the Costa del Sol with a view to finishing up in Cartagena or Alicante.
Whether we return to England or stay aboard is another interesting question still to be decided. It would apparently be quite easy for me to get work in Gibraltar and I would imagine that Audrey would find the same. Of course, we would not be able to live aboard if the boat were in Alicante. Plans are though still quite nebulous in that area anyway.
This trip we first visited Gibraltar to allow Audrey to experience the strangeness of one of Britain's last colonies. We then hired a car and I showed Audrey both Barbate and Cadiz (albeit briefly) It was while visiting Cadiz that confirmed us in our view that we wanted to revisit the Atlantic ports again before making the final jump into the Med out of the Atlantic.
The views over the Straits from the Tarifa Algeciras road are typically spectacular and made a nice picture of Audrey as well.
Congratulations to Marco Nanini still holding second place in the Global Ocean Race and facing a huge storm in Drakes Passage while rounding Cape Horn
Also a huge thanks to Sitting Kitty who looked after Schrodinger excellently while we were away.
The view of "The Rock" is particularly impressive at night from the boat.
This year's cruising is now taking shape in a more definite way. We have shied away from trying to make it to Sardinnia and Corsica. Instead, we are going to head back west to Portugal and revisit much more slowly the south coast of Portugal (the bits we liked) and Spain. This will involve about a month of river crawling mainly as we intend to explore up the Guadiana and Guadalquivir. We will then head on into the Mediteranean and work swiftly past the Costa del Sol with a view to finishing up in Cartagena or Alicante.
Whether we return to England or stay aboard is another interesting question still to be decided. It would apparently be quite easy for me to get work in Gibraltar and I would imagine that Audrey would find the same. Of course, we would not be able to live aboard if the boat were in Alicante. Plans are though still quite nebulous in that area anyway.
This trip we first visited Gibraltar to allow Audrey to experience the strangeness of one of Britain's last colonies. We then hired a car and I showed Audrey both Barbate and Cadiz (albeit briefly) It was while visiting Cadiz that confirmed us in our view that we wanted to revisit the Atlantic ports again before making the final jump into the Med out of the Atlantic.
The views over the Straits from the Tarifa Algeciras road are typically spectacular and made a nice picture of Audrey as well.
Congratulations to Marco Nanini still holding second place in the Global Ocean Race and facing a huge storm in Drakes Passage while rounding Cape Horn
Also a huge thanks to Sitting Kitty who looked after Schrodinger excellently while we were away.
Wednesday 15 February 2012
Off to Spain soon
At last, we are going down there for a few days. An unearthly start and easyjet from Gatwick but at least we will arrive in the middle of the day. It should be a fairly easy time though. We will mostly look around and hope to start planning the next stage of our cruise. Audrey will also get a chance to do the Gibraltar thing. We have also hired a car so we can do a bit of sightseeing.
On another note, I organised that the monthly charity dress down collection should be for the RNLI. It went quite well and I was happy to drop off around £200 to the RNLI London office. It felt nice to manage to get that much though it is only a drop in the ocean of their £150,000,000 annual budget. For all the myriad followers here, please see if you can give them a bit yourself. They can be found at:
The RNLI
I'll update while we are down there as well.
Happy Sailing for those lucky sods who are already cruising!
On another note, I organised that the monthly charity dress down collection should be for the RNLI. It went quite well and I was happy to drop off around £200 to the RNLI London office. It felt nice to manage to get that much though it is only a drop in the ocean of their £150,000,000 annual budget. For all the myriad followers here, please see if you can give them a bit yourself. They can be found at:
The RNLI
I'll update while we are down there as well.
Happy Sailing for those lucky sods who are already cruising!
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