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.
If you have some extra cash...this yacht is for you!
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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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