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Recipe: Boat Bread
Recipe books are shite, and they assume you know too much. They also don't understand moving boats. For instance even a sailing cook book will tell you to put 400g in a bread tin. Don't it will rise and jam on the roof of the oven. Here's how to do it .....
Anchorages in Panama City.
Apparently there was a problem with nowhere to go for Yachts in Panama City a few years back. That seems not to be a problem any more. There are 3(4) places for yachts to go in Panama City. One marina, some moorings and an .....
Blogging Sites for Sailors.
Blogging Sites for Sailors, a review, some sugestions and how to do it yourself. Contents: Part 1 Online Blogs (Sailing Dedicated) sailblogs yotblog x-journal mailasail Concusions Part 2 Online Blogs .....
Getting the best out of the mu 770sw, and mu 1030 sw
Many yotties lile me will own a mu (µ) #### Olympus digital camera. There quite good. I won't say great. I had a µ770 SW, most of the pictures on this site were take with it. It leaked after a while, as did another on the same boat as me. I managed .....
Free Sailing Sofware List
Free Sailing Software (usefull) Navigation Free Version GPS TrackMAKER Allows Downloads and uploads of waypoints trackas etc to a wide variety of GPS and variety of file fomats great for getting data and converting. Free version is all you .....
Niue
Jackal on a Mooring in Alofi Niue is a flat shelf of limestone that pops out of the South Pacific. Its entirley surrounded by a 100 ft cliff of limestone. The interior is a lush plateau. Population of 1500 people, it has 50 hotel rooms on the entire .....
It works (just) - the Truth about apple iPods
Many Yachties, like me will be concidering and iPod as a music store for traveling, temper your desire for a brand name MP3 player with the following caveats. I've seen one as a present, another was given to a traveling friend as a going away prezzie. .....
Wirless Hacking for Yachties
Marina and anchorage Wireless (WiFi) networks can, you may have noticed, be unreliable. Here's how to get the most out of the WiFi available. NOTE:None of the Tipps and Tricks on this page are Illegal as far as I'm aware, some are a little dodgy, others .....
Rarotonga
I don’t like going “its my favourite”, or “the best”. I guess I’m just indecicive. I justify it by the assumption one day it might be bettered. However I’ve been to Rarotonga twice. Its exceptionally good, .....
Rangiroa
Wow what an Atol.... 1000m deep all round, huge shallow laggon fringed by palm trees. Paradise. Some tourism but not enouhg to ruin the island. Water palm trees and Coral - thats about all it is. Water is clearer than the air. You won't belive how blue .....
Hiva Oa
Hiva Oa is a hell of a place, a towering volcanic islands that shoots out of the pacific, making an ideal end to a Pacific Crossing, Fatu Hiva is even more spectacular. Despite its remoteness, it is well equipped. Providing you're not in need of .....
Galapagos
Paying through the nose is the order of the day in the Galapagos. Seals on a boat in puerto Ayora Most people will make landfall at Puerto Ayora, in Santa Cruz. This is a delightfully crowded anchorage, with poor holding and rolly. We .....
Panama Canal Mini HowTo
Tom's Panama Canal mini howto. Written Feb 2008, may be wrong, dodgy, illegal, out of date and subject to entropy. EDIT: 2010, the Panama Canal YC has been demolished, no decent landings exist on the Colon side. Your probably going to have to go to .....
Prepping/buying a boat for world cruising.
I feel I'm well placed to write about this now. Maybe even authoritative. Most people will be writing of their experiences on their boat. As a boat bum I've sailed numerous yachts long distance. I've seen every world cruising idea, from a .....