According to our plans we have about 32 days until we depart San Diego for Nuka Hiva. The last couple months we have been in a sprint to get things done and finish equipping Kosmos. While we love to share details, we have been, and will continue to be, extremely busy. Hence do not expect many blog updates before we leave.
Hopefully during our 20 day passage to Nuka Hiva we will be able to fill in some of the details of all the preparation work we did.
Overall things are going well. Everything is coming together. Kosmos is performing great, and we know she will be safe and comfortable. We are very excited.
We’ve been wondering what happened to you guys. Happy to hear that you are just busy and that everything is on track for your adventure. We finally moved Crossroads from Ensenada to San Diego and will be leaving for Catalina this Thursday. Give us a call if you get a minute, otherwise good luck!
I like to say we have discovered new levels to being busy! Getting the boat ready and getting everything wrapped up on land is really time consuming.
Know you are real busy .But how do we keep in contact with you guys once you are on your travels! Dont want to miss you later in the year.
Keep up the great work!
Regards
Jaime
I will be posting our sat phone and SSB e-mail soon. Also our normal e-mail will still be working.
Eric,
are you communicate with email mostly via sat telefone? We work with sailmail for email communication. do you have expirience about this?
How do you get the weather forecast? Is it also via sat? Sorry, I ask you again for this points, but we have not every time a optimum of communication on our Swan at sea. Perhaps your answer will help us on our way starting May 01, 07 from St Maarten via Bermudas and NY to Newport to start with a new program.
Pls. let me know, when you are in the Med. If you need, I will give you than for the turkey area some informations etc.
I will follow you via www .
All the best for chris and you
Peter
Eric,
in addition to my comments befor, what is with the communication via skype?
Now I have contact to my friend in the Caribbian while he is lying in the harbour. Do you have a skype adress?
Best regards Peter
For underway e-mail and very slow Internet access we are using the Iridium Sat phone. Also for e-mail we are using the SSB with Sailmail. We are getting Grib and weather files from MaxSea by e-mail. Also weather faxes through the SSB. We are probably going to get Ocens too. Finally we are using a weather router, OMNI, for our passage to the Pacific.
Also we got a great deal a used NeraPro 1000. We will be using that at various times for Internet on land. The NeraPro links to the BGAN Imarasat system, which is not active in the South Pacific yet.
I have used Skype and it works nicely. You get very inexpensive voice communication.
Good luck, Eric! We will miss you here at DivX!
Dear Christy and Eric.
We often think of you and wish we could get together again someday! We have had all kinds of unexpected “adventures” and I am finally starting to get a little caught up and am glad to be able to get in touch with you. I will try to catch you be phone too as it would be great to be able to talk for a bit before you head out on your great adventure. The blog is great – keep it coming! Wishing you all the best.
Theresa