| One of the most pleasant aspects of living on a cruising boat is the
variety of people you come into contact with. Different nationalities
and cultures in a very short time has brought me into contact with a wide
range of interests, knowledge, views and approaches to problem solving.
If you sail out of one or two ports your entire adult life you will not have
this experience, or at least you likely won't get it just from sailing. As
part of this experience I've learned a lot of new and better ways to do
things for which I thought I already had an optimal solution.
Conversely I've discovered some of the little techniques I've learned or
developed are not as intuitively obvious to others as they might now seem to
me.
So the purpose of this page, and any pages that become linked to it is to
share some of the techniques I've adopted for solving a few of the many
issues and challenges of cruising under sail. None of these techniques
are very original. I've either stolen or adapted things I've learned from
others, from books or from those extremely rare Eureka moments. |
The first technique I have published under this page is my method for
introducing the NOAA Pilot Charts into the Fugawi Navigation
Software to facilitate route planning for ocean voyages. I've done
this at the suggestion of my friend, and fellow Pearson 424 sailor, Jack
Tyler. When I briefly explained how I do this I was surprised that for
someone like Jack, who is both computer-literate, and an experienced voyager
and navigator, this wasn't obvious. So at his suggestion I'm
documenting my methodology.Follow the links below or in the navigation
frame on the left. |
| Pilot Charts in Fugawi (or other navigation software).
How to capture and import the NGA Pilot Charts in chart plotting software,
in the is case Fugawi. |
| Excel Workbook Templates useful for
navigation. I have developed several Excel workbooks that I use in
offshore navigation. |
| Working
with Ship/Buoy Weather Reports. Additional
documentation on one of the Excel Templates listed in the above page. |
| Scheduling
the Retrieval of Winlink/Saildocs Documents.
This is a discussion of how I developed a strategy for
acquiring the wather documents I deem important during a voyage. |
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