by Rich Wilson | Dec 29, 2016 | Essays-RichWilson
Often I am asked – don’t you feel confined in that little boat? And my answer always is – not at all! Because where else can you live every day, all day, with a 360 degree view of the horizon and a hemispheric dome of sky overhead? Immersed in open nature this...
by Rich Wilson | Dec 29, 2016 | Q&A, Q&A - RichWilson, Q&A-RW-wk8
Dear Maura, We have WiFi on board but only for our own ship’s network. I can access the internet through the satellite phone, but it is very, very expensive, and so I don’t look at the internet from here. There is so much to do on the boat, and so much to...
by Rich Wilson | Dec 28, 2016 | Ship's Logs
Slowly we continue to catch up to the trailing edge of the depression, as the barograph has descended. The wind has stabilized at about 20 knots plus, we continue with the mainsail with 2 reefs, and fractional gennaker. But the storm is stretching out and it will...
by Rich Wilson | Dec 27, 2016 | Q&A, Q&A - RichWilson, Q&A-RW-wk8
Dear Jack, We have 3 different satellite communication systems: Fixed Iridium (9.6kbaud), an Iridium OpenPort (128k baud) and a Fleet Broadband (250k baud rate). So I can telephone or email through any of these three systems. Interestingly, we have found that the best...
by Rich Wilson | Dec 27, 2016 | Q&A, Q&A - RichWilson, Q&A-RW-wk8
Dear Peter, I haven’t gotten soaked from the outside to the inside down to my skin yet, mostly because I have good foul weather gear (Musto) and because many of our operations are done inside the big coachroof over the cockpit. Of course we can fill the cockpit,...
