November 17: Day One Imagine driving your only home, but for the first time, attached to a 47′ monohull, for 80km for two days! And, ensuring both boats stayed in the middle of each of six locks, each dumping loads … Continue reading Our Panama Canal video links
Over the last two days, I (Don) gave a pair of seminars on opencpn at Shelter Bay Marina. The purpose was to review some of the features I had found useful in opencpn, help people upgrade to Version 5, and provide troubleshooting support. I asked folks to bring computers and then brought Version 5 plus a wide range of maps and charts on a thumb drive so folks could download during the seminars. Satellite charts come as .kap and .mbtiles There have been, and is now an ever growing, collection of satellite charts that are geo registered and can be … Continue reading Highlights from my Opencpn navigation and AIS backup seminars
Hey everyone, let’s have a Lagoon get together! Don came up with the bright idea of convening Lagoon owners on the Chat N Chill, Georgetown. While there are certainly topics that relevant to all catamaran owners, we thought it would … Continue reading Eight Lagoon owners shared experiences
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!
43:00:00 days left and we are a sailboat again! Thanks to Annapolis Rigging, S/V Enjoy has some hard core custom fabricated, anodized plates and spreader tips, tangs and new standing rigging that should keep our mast up and held steady under … Continue reading Custom Band-aids on our 68′ stick
Although we had 16 life vests, the safety concious folks running the ARC Bahamas require auto inflatable life vests with built in crotch straps! Don found a sale that just expired at Spinlock, and they honored it two days late … Continue reading 76 days and we have to have crotch straps?
