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From: Rosalie B. (no email)
Date: Sat Nov 02 2002 - 08:56:47 EST
On Sat, 02 Nov 2002 00:55:12 -0500, you wrote:
>On October 31, 2002 03:47 pm, Paul van Oss wrote:
>> At 30/10/02, Rick H Kennerly wrote:
>> <<snipped>>
>>
>> >...cruisers are nothing more than Liveaboards who don't have a regular
>> > dock assignment and the still worry about the things all LAs do--frozen
>> > bolts, batteries, charging systems, and paint.
>>
>> Sure, some problems are just boatproblems, as Rick amongst others stated.
>> But there are other things like 'where to check in on the south-coast of
>> Cuba, is Isla Juventud still possible or not', 'what is a good marina
>> around xxx-area' and 'how to bake your bread in a pressure cooker' (there
>> is a galley-list btw. mailto:).
>>
>
>The place I get all that kind of discussion is the (maybe mentioned already)
>worldcruising mailing list. Not too bad. Low volume at the moment (it seems
>to go in waves) but i don't often see a question go unanswered, so there's a
>few lurkers.
At the moment the problem with this list (worldcruising and also
world_women_cruisers) is that there's a spammer on there, so I've set
it to nomail for the moment. Also it is a Yahoo list.
Mostly I find that people who are actively cruising are not on email
lists. I'm about as active a person on lists while cruising as I
know, and I set most lists nomail where I am going to be 'out there'.
And I'm not *really* 'out there', since we only do coastal cruising.
(We are not going this year BTW - Bob was dragging his feet, and I
felt pushed and that I wasn't going to be ready, and I had concerns
about the jib furler not working properly etc. Also I didn't want to
do something that Bob didn't want to do. But now he's saying that I'm
the one that didn't want to go, which is only partly true. If this
goes according to the way it has in the past, we'll not be in accord
until *next* fall - usually takes me about a year.)
Incidentally if anyone is going to be by here and wants to meet us at
the marina or at Solomons (which isn't that far by road) give us a
call at 301-475-5125. If we're not here, leave a message.
We get our info from other cruisers, and from the radio when we are in
the Bahamas. What I do is put all the lists on nomail (can't do that
with this list) and give stern instructions to my mom not to send me
jokes. And then I just download the headers, and don't download the
bodies of the spam or posts that are too long, or have a subject I'm
not interested in. If I delete the header, the pocketmail will delete
the post from the server. If I just don't want it right away and
leave the header, I can get the whole thing the next time I go to an
internet cafe.
BTW - BATELCO has been privatized, and no US phones or phone cards
work there anymore.
Other cruisers have a ham email connection, but with that (as I
understand it) the connection is slow, so long emails like this one
would be excruciating.
What other cruisers do is mark their charts and exchange info with
other cruisers. We have friends who have their own website and we
follow their adventures there. They tell exactly how they get the
information they need - from other cruisers (they share), and from the
cruising guides. One of the pair of them writes an occasional article
for a magazine, and has updated one of the cruiser
standby-cruiser-written cruising guides.
An email group with info for cruisers from those actively cruising is
a pipe dream.
grandma Rosalie
S/V RosalieAnn, Leonardtown, MD
CSY 44 WO #156
http://home.mindspring.com/~gmbeasley/_wsn/page2.html
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