Sail The World

The winner of the latest Eurovision Song Contest. I’m really enjoying her music. Here is a song of her first CD.

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I wouldn’t mind living in a country where the car mechanic is also a philosophist.

Yank Tanks on Netflix

After all this ugly weather lately I decided to trade my sailboat for a submarine. Luckily there is no weather under water.

This thing is very difficult to single hand so I’m looking for crew. Contact me if you are interested.

The other day I discovered iNudge on the web and I was immediately drawn in by this application. After creating a few Nudges I felt like I needed something more. Yesterday I started playing with Garageband that came with my MacBook. Here are the first results and hopefully I have some more creations soon.

I want one so badly!

The Nauticast-B transponder is a plug and play AIS solution. Enjoy the benefits of the AIS system knowing larger commercial vessels are aware of your position increasing your personal safety while navigating at sea.

Unlike receive only AIS devices which do not transmit vessel information to surrounding traffic, the Nauticast-B system allows you to virtually participate in neighboring vessels maneuvering activities for collision avoidance. Announce your identity, position, speed and course over ground to oncoming traffic allows for increased security that you will be seen in low visibility conditions.

Avoid not being seen because of extreme weather conditions or busy vessel traffic environments. Generate a safety distress message to surrounding AIS equipment, including vessels, base-stations, and possibly SAR teams. All in all, it is a horizon expanding experience; especially in combination with an electronic chart system.

After having Carpe Diem’s bottom scraped we were headed out for some sailing but the winds picked up to a piping 30+kts and I decided to keep the sails down. At one point we were running at 3kts under bare poles. Yipeeeh!