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What we looked for in a boat

How we selected

People often ask me how we ended up selecting a Sea Spirit Passagemaker 60. This page is an attempt to answer that question, by describing various aspects of boats, and what things we view as important. There are dozens of factors not…

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What we looked for in a boat

How we selected

People often ask me how we ended up selecting a Sea Spirit Passagemaker 60. This page is an attempt to answer that question, by describing various aspects of boats, and what things we view as important. There are dozens of factors not…

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The countdown begins!

It’s January 1, 2011, and I’ve finally got the feeling that our upcoming winter cruise from Fort Lauderdale through the Panama Canal to Golfito, Costa Rica, is actually going to happen.

Six months ago, we were not boaters, but we were boat dreamers, …

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The countdown begins!

It’s January 1, 2011, and I’ve finally got the feeling that our upcoming winter cruise from Fort Lauderdale through the Panama Canal to Golfito, Costa Rica, is actually going to happen.

Six months ago, we were not boaters, but we were boat dreamers, …

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Boiling the Heat Exchangers

Adam had asked what I meant by “boiling the heat exchangers, so I thought I’d write an entry about it.

You probably already know all about heat exchangers, so just skip over this paragraph and the next one if so. As you probably know, there are v…

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Boiling the Heat Exchangers

Adam had asked what I meant by “boiling the heat exchangers, so I thought I’d write an entry about it.

You probably already know all about heat exchangers, so just skip over this paragraph and the next one if so. As you probably know, there are v…

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Weather Fax using an iPad and a $135 radio

Continuing on the theme of offshore communications, I thought I’d muck about with my iPad and a cheap shortwave radio, to see how easy it is to receive weather maps. The short answer: easy when there’s a signal, but signals are hard to find, much of th…

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Weather Fax using an iPad and a $135 radio

Continuing on the theme of offshore communications, I thought I’d muck about with my iPad and a cheap shortwave radio, to see how easy it is to receive weather maps. The short answer: easy when there’s a signal, but signals are hard to find, much of th…

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More on Satellite Internet — BGAN experiments

Since my Sea Spirit Passagemaker 60 is built for ocean-crossing, I’ve been looking a little more deeply into satellite communications, as mentioned in my previous post.

BGAN is the least expensive of the satellite Internet systems in terms of equipmen…

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More on Satellite Internet — BGAN experiments

Since my Sea Spirit Passagemaker 60 is built for ocean-crossing, I’ve been looking a little more deeply into satellite communications, as mentioned in my previous post.

BGAN is the least expensive of the satellite Internet systems in terms of equipmen…