We sent ourselves some test Sail Mail emails last night when we are on the boat. Sail Mail attaches a LOT of information to the bottom of the email, including the email address the email came from. Sail Mail recommends closely gaurding your Sail Mail email address so I certainly don't want to post it on the internet! I will have to recruit someone shoreside to post to my blog for me. Maybe my dad, since he is a blogger as well? I believe the skipper is planning to blog on sailblogs. If so I will post a link to that so my avid fans can follow our progress across the Pacific.
We have the Spinnaker Cup tomorrow and are still short a spinnaker sheet. I have arranged for the rigger to leave it at a marina a bit North of here and for one of the crew to retrieve it this afternoon. I hope it all works out. This time last year I was picking up guys and a foreguy from this same rigger the day before the race. I was imagining the foreguy would have blocks with it but it didn't. Luckily I had enough time to pick up blocks at West Marine. Nothing like the last minute! The good news for our Pac Cup prep though is that we knocked a bunch of things off the list last night and even more is being done today. We are looking fantabulous for the race.
Ronnie Simpson Podcast
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"Sail mail," I like that, very clever. Does it depend on satellite transmission? Hmm, according to sailmail.com, it provides, "email communications via [its] own worldwide network of SSB-Pactor radio stations." Ah, I see there's a map of "SSB-Pactor station locations worldwide" at http://www.sailmail.com/, including at what looks like California and Hawaii.
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