This is a log of the significant changes to this web during 2007.  The update logs for previous years are available from the links at the bottom of this page.

 

2007 Changes

September 4, 2007
Page Description of Change
AIS Engine I have replaced the NASA AIS Engine with a SR161 AIS Receiver.  The SR161 is clearly a superior product.
Deck and Rigging Upgrades In August, 2007 I had all of the main mast standing rigging replaced.

 

July 31, 2007
Page Description of Change
Scheduling WX Docs I have updated this page to describe how my weather document retrieval strategy actually worked on the voyage from Portugal to the Chesapeake Bay

 

June 30, 2007
Page Description of Change
Madeira to Bermuda Added weather charts to this page
Lagos to Madeira Added weather charts to this page

 

June 29, 2007
Page Description of Change
Madeira to Bermuda Added page with pictures and descriptions of our sail from the island of Madeira to Bermuda

 

June 25, 2007
Page Description of Change
Lagos to Madeira Added a page on our sail from Lagos, PT to the island of Madeira
Log of 2007 Cruise Added the route we followed from Bermuda to the Chesapeake Bay plus log of the passage

 

June 5, 2007
Page Description of Change
Log of 2007 Cruise Added the route we followed from Madeira to Bermuda plus log of the passage

 

May 14, 2007
Page Description of Change
Log of 2007 Cruise Added initial page on the log of Sarah's cruise from Portugal back to the US.  Not much there yet as we were very busy during the few days we had in Madeira before pushing on to Bermuda.  Just a map of our route to Madeira for now.

 

April 28, 2007
Page Description of Change
Safety Equipment I've added a new page on the safety equipment on Sarah.  The initial entry on this page is the Raymarine LifeTag system

 

March 31, 2007
Page Description of Change
Ship Weather Reports Added a page to explain how to use the Ship Weather Reports Excel Template.

 

March 15, 2007
Page Description of Change
Techniques I've started a new set of pages on techniques (mostly for navigation) that I've created or stolen.

 

March 13, 2007
Page Description of Change
NMEA Multiplexer The AIS-C NMEA Multiplexer originally installed in Jan had several bug in the firmware.  These were corrected by Brookhouse and the new mux has been re-installed.

 

January 9, 2007
Page Description of Change
Cabin Lighting Changes I've completed several changes to the cabin lighting on Sarah
NMEA Multiplexer I recently purchased a new NMEA Multiplexer from Brookhouse that supports multiple 38400 inputs (e.g., AIS and C120) and still provides a 4800B NMEA output.  This page documents my experience with this new Mux and how I have configured it in my NMEA network.
AIS Engine Fugawi has released a Beta version (4.1.7) of their software that appears to have addressed most of the shortcomings in their AIS implementation.
AIS Target Filter in SOB I've added a separate page on target filtering in the SOB software.

 

January 4, 2007
Page Description of Change
NMEA Multiplexer Updated and corrected previous documentation on my NMEA multiplexer implementation

2002 Updates

2003 Updates

2004 Updates

2005 Updates

2006 Updates

The www.svsarah website has been republished in a new format.  All of the old pages have been copied to the new format.  I've started to provide re-direct links from the old pages to the new ones.