Farewell to Cape Town, GE style
Man, that’s a long time in planes! I’m back in Maine, briefly, and experimenting with Google Earth to scrap book my trip. Here’s the full screen image, but it would be far better to open Google Earth and...
Monthly Archive: October 2006
The SA 7,000 mile test sail, and TackTick mystery
This is the helm of a Robertson and Caine Leopard 46, sometimes thought of as the Moorings Leopard 46 since this huge charter company is the builder’s main client. R&C is the biggest boat shop in...
St Francis & Safari 50’s, cat crazy Cape Town
I must admit I drooled a bit over this nav station/office on board a St Francis 50 cruising cat. Wouldn’t that be the spot to test electronics and write Panbo? Of course I’d do a few things a little...
The Whisper launch, hybrid with a story
Notice the two throttle/shifts (bigger shot here); one controls a small Vetus diesel, the other an electric motor, both turning the same shaft. I didn’t get all the technical details or the performance numbers—this...
One tough power cat, Furuno on board
It is famously hard to photograph rough seas, and this (bigger here) is a good example. Only a bit of spray and Mark Delaney’s two-handed grip on the grab rails suggests that his Two Oceans Magnum 32’...
Panbo in Cape Town, so far away and yet…
Well, I’d figured that posting might suffer, but I had no idea how long a two day plane trip and a miserable hotel WiFi voucher card system could knock me off line (why is it so easy...
Marine Lightning Protection, revolutionary?
When I wrote about lightning a few years ago, I interviewed Dr. Ewen Thomson, then an associate professor of electrical engineering at the University of Florida and more-or-less the go-to guy when it came...
The State of Panbo, 10/1/2006
Dear readers, it’s time for another entry (also here and here) on the state of Panbo: * If you’ve been accessing this blog with an RSS reader, instead of going directly to the site, you may be annoyed because...
