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Subject: Re: [worldcruising] Introduction / Communication
From: Rosalie B. (gmbeasley@XXX.XXX)
Date: Thu Sep 27 2001 - 23:34:56 EDT
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 18:06:05 -0400, you wrote:
>Our dream is to sail around the world, though we are having some difficult
>things to overcome to be able to do it. Our biggest concern thus far is we
>both are deaf, and the sailing community seems to be heavily dependent on
>the use of radios (VHF, HAM, etc). We are worried about not being able to
There are some boats that don't have any radios, or don't turn them on, but
I think you are right and we do depend heavily on voice communication. I
don't know if there is the equivalent of a TTY for a radio or not. Or
maybe voice recognition software for it. You can of course get weather via
fax in visual form, but I haven't learned to do that yet, so can't tell you
much about it. Can you speak? Can you tell how intelligible you would be
over a radio?
>keep in touch with other boats in the community, or being able to talk to
>the harbors/marinas and get weather reports, or tips/GPS locations on coming
>into difficult ports, especially when the weather is bad. I am currently
>studying the community to see whether we might be able to "get by" using ham
>radio and keeping in touch with others solely via email, and inmarsat as a
>backup device in case if ham breaks and have friends in the sailing
>community in the area contact harbors for us, etc.
>
>What I am curious is if anyone in the current sailing community uses some
>kind of "online chat" methods, similar to what the internet has for IRC
>(Internet Relay Chat) or instant messenging (e.g. AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo). I
>think this would be helpful so we could keep in touch with boats nearby in
>case if anything bad happens. I would love to hear suggestions and/or ideas
Hams do have a ham email setup, but I don't know that this would be
immediate enough for your needs.
>on resolving our potential concerns about communications issues we may face
>and any other potential problems we will confront while sailing as we want
>to learn about all kinds of "not being able to hear" problems so we can try
>to be prepared for them before we start our voyage.
>
>Does anyone know of other "general sailing" mailing lists that I should
>subscribe to? Most mailing lists Ive found so far are designated for
>specific boats yet (we havent decided which boat we want!) and this is the
>only general list that Ive found thus far.
There are lots of non-specific lists. On yahoo is the world_women_cruisers
list (but they will allow males to participate), the ChesapeakeCruising,
list, the SafeCruising list and the Workaboard list. Most of these are
relatively inactive.
Two very active lists are the live-aboard list out of Canada,
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and the Yacht-L list out of Holland. I think the address for that is"L-Soft
list server at SURFnet (The Netherlands) (1.8d)"
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The address of the homepage of Yacht-L is:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~erkooi/YL/
grandma Rosalie
S/V RosalieAnn, Leonardtown, MD
CSY 44 WO #156
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