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Sailing the Atlantic, Caribbean and Pacific 2007/8
Sat 21st November 2009
Rangiroa Lagoon
The loverly lagoon at Rangiroa in the Tuamotos, yacht Jackal at anchor.
Thu 21st May 2009
Netbook Wallpaper
I've got one of those little netbooks, an eee pc 900. With their 1024x600 screen and puny CPU's I thought. Better make my self a selection of suitably size, pretty and colleague annoying .....
Tue 22nd July 2008
Port Macquarie News
Click Image to download (PDF 1meg)Port Macquarie News, Monday, July 21, 2008Page 11, part thereof. Coverinng Jackal's Arrival in Austraila, apparently my Name's spelt wrong. Not that I noticed .....
Tue 24th June 2008
Land Jumping
"Land Jumping" the famous South Pacific Bungee where you tie a vine around your legs and jump of a wooden scaffold. Looks incredibly painful. There's not much bounce in a vine. Filmed in .....
Sun 15th June 2008
Volcano Video
This video was shot on a volcano on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu. Fortunately its reliably active, yes it is dangerous, but Tanna barely has electricity and, thank god, no health and safety .....
Mon 28th April 2008
Tombstoning the Royal bath
WARNING this Video contains profanity (again). Actually it contains "Goldie Looking Chain", which is pretty profain! This is a video of Eli "tombstoning" in the Malapa Chasm, AKA the Nuiand .....
Tue 22nd April 2008
Rarotonga
I don’t like going “its my favourite”, or “the best”. I guess I’m just indecicive. I justify it by the assumption one day it might be bettered. However .....
Mon 7th April 2008
Attenborough
Warning contains swear words.... would never happened if we'd got that Steve Irwin bloke. I'm new to this embedded media malarkey, don't seem to work with internet explorer, which is ironic .....
Tue 1st April 2008
Jackal Wallpaper
More Desktop Wallpapery goodness. Me Al and Christian arriving in Nuka Hiva. Isles Maquesas, French Polynesia, aboard "Jackal" Al's Beneteau Oceanis 411. March 2008. 1024x768 | 1280 x 1024 | .....
Wed 26th March 2008
OCEAN hippie - the newsletter
Right Click and Save target as to download "Bored in the Pacific" an oceanhipie's rant. This is mostly rewrite or reprint of what's here on the website, its just in printable form so you can .....
Thu 14th February 2008
Panama Canal Video
The Panama canal in 7 and a bit minutes, staring the Yachts Jackal and Scratch. Shot on the 6th and 9th of feb 2008 Sound track courtesy of some monks and a computer game Jake likes....
Sat 9th February 2008
Panama Canal
Yacht Scratch I actually went through twice, once a board Scratch and again on Jackal. Scratch can be described as an intercontinental ballistic cruising boat. This is a small subset of yachts for .....
Fri 25th January 2008
Rollup Smoking on Yachts
Caroline, a committed yottie roller Rollups, a European thing, but we the rits take it more seriously.Can be difficult to get baccy out side the UK. Here's your essential guide to baccy .....
Wed 23rd January 2008
The Caribbean
Los Testigos, beach on Testigo Grande Well I've left Island Kea II, in St Lucia. Which was a shame. The 2 weeks before Christmas were spent at ARC parties, hanging out on the beach and a little .....
Sun 30th December 2007
Yet another Atlantic crossing
Panoramic View of Gran Canaria Yet another Atlantic Crossing. Well it wasn't, this was my 4th crossing, third in this direction. I confidently predicted that "I'd practically worn .....
Fri 28th December 2007
St Lucia wall paper - Mystic Mountain Brew
Am I missing English beer? well not much, the local brew is actually quite nice. Its "Piton" named after the 2 sharp peaks near Sourfiere in St Lucia. Any way in a fit of boredom I made this. The .....
Sat 17th November 2007
Gran Canaria
Terror, only 12 km. Help! Virgins and Pine Tees. I've never seen Gran Canaria, this is my third visit. I have previously experienced Canairans Like tat too. . The Hiperdino (Spanish .....
