Many Thanks to the helpful crew at West Marine Pope's Island

The crew at West Marine Pope's Island has been extremely helpful and friendly and helpful on prepping the boat for this trip.

Thanks Bob, Tom, Sue, Kevin, Matt, Katie and all the rest of the team!

Update - link to forum

I posted an update on the plans to the discussion forum. The link is in the upper right hand corner of this page.

Refrigeration

I just bought a DC refrigeration unit online. I hope it fits, but if it doesn't it will be OK because I bought it for such a very low price I should be able to resell it.

The plan now is to have redundant and complimentary reefer systems, one engine driven, and one DC powered. This should provide a more uniform box temperature with relatively low engine run time when the two work together, and the assurance that even if one fails, we have the other.

Event - Jan 31st 2008 Offshore Weather

Bruce and Karl coming to walter's to discuss Laptop requirements, electronic charts, weather products, and Laptop GPS.

Event - Jan 28th, 2008 meeting with Erik re: web site

On Eric's suggestion, we are going to look at drupal as the engine behind the site.

New Breakout Discussion

I just created a Breakout Discussion for the routing decision to handle the overwhelming amount of dialogue that has been created on this hot topic ;-) It is under Offshore Crew at the upper right.

Chart View of both routes

I thought you might enjoy this, it give an idea of scale, and distance from shore.