Touring
We stopped by the Tourism Office one day to ask about taking a tour of the island. The lovely lady there, Val, immediately called her dear friend Larry and arranged for him to come by the next...
Tag: Sailing
Heart-Shaped Waterfall
We took a hike up to one of St Helena’s tourist attractions, the Heart shaped Waterfall. It was a pretty energetic hike, but quite pretty at the top. Not much water in the waterfall though....
I’ve not been online much…
I've not been online much, because we have pretty low bandwidth out here and often I can't get a string enough signal for Facebook. For updates on our adventures I post periodically to...
St Helena
St Helena is a very interesting place. No marina or docks: we’re tied up to a mooring ball and use the radio to request a pickup by the ferry on his hourly trips through the mooring field. After...
Update from St. Helena
I’ve not been online much, because we have pretty low bandwidth out here and often I can’t get a strong enough signal. Truthfully mostly I send messages to Edwin and he posts them because the...
A video tour of Vingilótë’s cockpit
Balance 526 are semi-custom. Ours is #7 and a lot of learnings and our own highly opinionated views on things went into the way the cockpit, saloon, and helm are set up. Here is a video walkthrough...
Moored at St. Helena
This morning I found a quick WhatsApp message from Irene at 3:36am PST that they were moored at St. Helena. AIS on a (historic) satellite view confirms it.
Rounding the north end of St. Helena
First sight of St. Helena
Land ho! St. Helena lies before us.
Automated the Map Updates
As detailed in a previous blog post “Making the map track-only” I cleaned up the KML to reduce the size I have the Google Maps API process. I automated the processing. The source system updates...