Detailed discussions on critical topics.
• Health matters certainly even more when professional help is not directly physically at hand although today professional advice will be available even in the remotest of places over long-range radio or through satellite connection. Continue reading Health matters
Don’t fix it if it is not broke is an often (ab)used quote which does nothig keep the show on the road.
Fix it before it breaks should be the mantra.
Maintenance in the full sense of the meaning is taking care of everything that is broken or threatens to go wrong. Continue reading Maintenance, back-ups, spares and tools
For thousands of years navigation was the art of knowing where you are and going where you wanted to go without the help of sightings of land not to mention instruments.
We have difficulty imagining how the early Pacific ocean navigators about 3-4000 years ago on board their basic ocean going vessels, without using Continue reading Navigation and charting
We have come a long way from smoke signalling to high speed internet access along an ever steeper curve of technical development. It is interesting to note that the latest technologies have not totally superseded the old and trusted ones. Smoke signals should be on board every life raft together with an Epirb and VHF radio. Old and new technology together.
Power Management is one of the keys to successful ocean cruising and long distance passaging. To begin with most of us underestimated how much power we would consume especially when sailing in the tropics and also what was needed to provide this power. Continue reading Power management
