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INSERT INTO `res` VALUES (3,1,'PierToPier.net',5,'Free WiFi on Brighton Beach. Surf\'s up!','http://www.piertopier.net','1',NULL,'2004-12-19 01:55:32'),(4,2,'Brighton Sailing Club',5,'BSC is my Club, I even wrote their website, though I have handed that mantle on now.','http://www.brightonsc.org.uk','',NULL,'2004-12-19 01:51:57'),(5,3,'New Website',3,'Finally got arround to putting my origninal ste <a href=\"http://www.oceanhippie.org\">oceanhippie.org<a/> Back where it belongs, and putting this site up to handle the non traveling part of my life. Will put more stuff up soon.','0',NULL,'webiste, update','2004-12-31 12:07:34'),(6,2,'Chichester YC',2,'I\'ve even got my back straight!','http://www.cyc.co.uk','5',NULL,'2004-12-19 00:56:29'),(7,1,'Factory Reset',3,'<p>Use of the mesh box command \"factoryreset\", can solve problems with wiana, and settings of mehboxes that has changed position or hardware in the mesh. However most custom changes are NOT over written.</p>\n \n<p>Do not fear the factoryreset, it doesn\'t delete custom scripts such as the famous piertopier rotating advertising banners, nor does it overwrite the rc.local firewall rules to block file sharing. Nor does it overwrite the configuration files of camserv, or spash screen. It doesn’t even mess up their master files!</p>\n \n<p>IT DOES however generate new hardware keys (if necessary), and will need to be reregistered with wiana, and therefore an new IP address.</p>\n \n<p>Re-Registering with wiana, if the hardware has been changed or replaced, it will probably be given a new hardware key. If this happens then just clone hte new box\'s settings off the old one in wiana and delete the now missing box (which will have the same cell ID).</p>\n \n<p>Getting a path to wiana to reregister, when factory resetted the box will come up on an SSID of \"locustworld\". To reregister a repeater you will need to make it mesh with your ssid. use the following command, as root, from a console or ssh session. </p>\n \n<p>iwconfig wlan0 essid piertopier.net channel 6</p>\n \n<p>Then wait for the box to mesh, obviously put your nets ssid where I put \"piertopier.net\".</p>\n \n<p>wianaregister may still not work, doesn’t seem to run from a console, this is a bugger. I cannot register mesh box from a mesh box, I have to ssh into it to get wiana register to work. Suspect it an English keyboard issue. I have always had to use putty (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html) to connect from out side and then run wiana register.</p> \n \n<p>NOTE if you do factory reset on box WITHOUT changing the hardware, you can probably dump the wianaregister step, so long as it can see the internet it will just re-download its settings...... eventually.</p>\n \n<p>this is mostly useful for people who play musical hardware in mesh boxes! Or are like me to cheap to buy an new one and just replace parts! </p>\n \n<p>Tom</p\n \n<p>P.S. sorry about the typos will correct later.</p>','http://www.piertopier.net/forum/YaBB.pl?board=Wisdom;action=display;num=1084350744',NULL,'factory, reset, factoryreset, wiana, meshap, mesh, ap, locustworld','2004-12-31 12:01:55'),(8,2,'International 14',5,'Class assocation of the World\'s best Class! There nice and freindly people and the old ones are serious value for money ','http://www.i14.org','2',NULL,'2004-12-19 01:51:31'),(12,2,'Tom\'s Tapeze Tips',3,'<p>I\'ve seen many seen many lessons on how to get on an off the trapeze. but few on what you should do when you get there. Here\'s my tips on how to trapeze. The intened audiance was hobie 16 sailors, not proper boats.</p>\n\n<h3>1. Maximising your righting moment.</h3>\n<li>Keep your back straight. This projects your weight further out, increasing your righting moment.</li>\n<li>Trapeze off your Toes, this will allow you to project even further out from the boat, so you can put the power on. This feels weird the fist time you try it. As you absorb the motion of the boat with you caves not your knees. Try it a few times and you find you can balance much easier as well, which you\'ll need for my next tip. This posture makes it very difficult to see anything but the top of the mast and seagulls, to get around this twist your hips so your front foot  points to the bow of the boat.\nKeep your feet together, as much as possible. If you are helming then use the tiller/mainsheet or as crew the jib sheet and traveller to keep you steady. Shoulders touching when twin wiring to help balance.</li>\n\n<span class=\"blog\">\n<h3>Science bit</h3>\n<p>Boats are kept upright by \"righting moment\", or your weight out the side. The more righting moment you produce the more you can pull the sails in and the faster you go. In physics moment is defined as the force, in this case weight (w) multiplied by distance (d). Its illegal and unsafe to carry extra mass. So your weight (mass × gravity) is constant. What you need to do is get it as far out the side as you can.</p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <img src=\"content/pic/trap.png\"><br>\nBloke on the the left w X d = big  bloke on the right w X d = small</p>\n</span>\n<li>Trapeze Low, Except in very light weather adjust you trapeze to get you as near horizontal as you can. If you trapeze high, it will pull you up in the air and make it very difficult to keep your footing, and as soon as the boat heels you end up trapezing upwards not sideways, reducing the righting effect and making you capsize early.</li>\n\n<span class=\"blog\">\n<p>There are 3 sorts of trapeze wires out there, the easy adjust, poor adjust and pre set types. The easy adjusts can be done one handed on the wire, the poor adjust can be done on the wire with both hands and a hernia. The cheap hobie cat toggle needs to be set on the beach. High for light weather Low for breeze. In very light winds it is better to trapeze high than not at all, so set you trapeze high and bend knees etc.</p>\n</span>\n\n<h3>2. Where to Trapeze.</h3>\n<li>Upwind, as far forward as you can. So long as the boats not hitting the waves and stopping your ok. In light winds the Helm should trapeze first. By doing this the helm can get further forward with out hitting the shroud or the crew with the tiller extension, and, trapeze level with the crew to reduce pitching in our lovely chop. As the wind comes up then the Helm takes a step aft and the crew comes out forward of the shroud. Make sure the crew’s trapeze is set/adjusted lower so the helm can see. Up wind there’s no need to interlock but helm and crew’s shoulders should be touching to give support and keep weight together.</li>\n<li>The bear away, shuffle backwards, the crew needs to ease the traveller as this will require both hands unless you dump main (waste). Keeping the power on and not burying the nose are the key. The crew anchored by the traveller keeps both crew and helm from going around the front. In light weather its unlikely you will be able to trapeze though this manoeuvre.<img src=\"content/pic/if.png\" alt=\"interlocking feet\" align=\"left\"></li>\n<li>The reach, as far forward as you dare. If you get a gust or chop approaching move aft, when you get through it move forward again. When twin wiring interlock legs and wish you’d fitted toe straps. Make sure the crew never cleats the traveller as they’ll need it to stop both of you going around the front. When its too windy for twin trapezing, either put the helm out the back on the wire with the crew sitting on the back beam, or chuck the tiller extension away and steer off the tiller bar, allowing the crew to go further back than the helm. Remember they won’t be able to do the traveller like that!</li>\n<li>Running, if your twin wiring your probably going too tight. single trapezing is probably the most you will ever need. Unless you’ve got with the program and bought a 14!</li>\n','http://www.brightonsc.no-ip.org/gybe.php',NULL,'trapeze, harness, howto, righting, moment, wire, hike, skiff, hobie 16','2004-12-31 12:06:09'),(265,2,'The Cumulative Points Scoring System',3,'<h1>The Cumulative Points Scoring System</h1>\r\n<h3> Deciding the club champion and encouraging turn out for club racing:</h3>\r\n<p class=\"blog\">This is old, the version here is a transcript of a photocopy from the June 1982 Edition of \'Dinghy &amp; Boardsailing\' and was by Bryan Willis. I couldn\'t find it anywhere on the net, I don\'t own any Copyright - the system presuably belongs to Bryan Willis and Queen Mary SC, the article to a now defunct magazine. I\'m publishing it here for public information purpouses!</p>\r\n<p>  About 10 years ago I sat down with my club\'s top helmsmen and the sailing secretary, and armed with the previous season\'s race results we tried to agree on who we would like to have won, had the scoring system not been the conventional \'best of so many race results out of the total races held\'. It was an interesting project; one helmsman had 12 firsts and 2 seconds but nothing else, another had 11 firsts and S seconds and 2 thirds. The members who spent most of their time on the circuit usually cleaned up when they were at home, and the actuall overall winner had won the series a month before the end of the series and hadn\'t bothered to enter the last 4 races. We discussed whether any credit\r\nshould be given relating to the standard of the helsmsmen beaten in any particular race, or the number or helmsmen beaten.</p>\r\n<p>  There was one point on which we were all agreed. and that was that there should be no individual handicapping. All helmsman should start as equals and the overall<br />\r\n  winner should be the one who achieved a combination of success and turnout. After all, if you are going to award a tropny to a club champion, he must be a champion, not the \'best bar the top six\', or the \'most improved\'; he must be the best by some\r\n  particular definition, and the problem was\r\nsimply to decide on the principles that should be used to decide on the definition.</p>\r\n<p>  What should the principles be? Winning races is an obvious one, but it would be\r\n  great to give some benefit for beating good\r\nhelmsmen and beating lots of them! Then, of course, there is the principle that to turn out often deserves some credit.</p>\r\n<p> I went away to mathematicaly construct\r\n  a system which would incorporate these\r\n  principles and give each the right balance.\r\n  Predictably the system Was complex and had to be drastically simplified, but the end result was a scoring system which was\r\n  simple, understandable, and fulfilled all our\r\n  ambitions. It was first adopted by a single<br />\r\n  fleet in 1971 and is now used by over 40\r\n  clubs throughout Great Britain.<br />\r\nOnc of the main benefits is that it create interest and thereby encourages turnout.</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>  The salient features are:<br />\r\n    Everyone starts at 0; the helmsman with the highest score after the last race is the winner.</li>\r\n  <li>After each race (even after the first race) there is a cumulative total so that at any time in the season each competitor can see where he stands in relation to the others.</li>\r\n  <li> Points are awarded for <em>beating</em> other helmsmen, in particular <em>good</em> ones (i.e. those with high cumulative scores).</li>\r\n  <li> The system has the automatic effect of making the races near the end of the season more important than those at the beginning. This gives the end of the season added interest and usually means an to the series; Helmsman entering other than the beginning of the season have a chance to catch up.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>  What about disadvantages? \'The only one is that someone is required tookeep the score chart up-to-date! This is essential as it is the continual dispay of the cumulative totals which produce so much interest. At first this job may seem a little awesome but in fact it does not take very long (and whatever system is used someone has to maintain some sort of results chart). At Q!leen Mary Sailing Club at Ashford, Middlesex, 16 of the 17 fleets use the system with a total of some twelve and a half thousand entries over the year, and the scores are maintained meticulously by Dave Smith, the bar steward in his off peak moments. Generally a score chart for one fleet, with 2 races per weekend and a turnout average of 10, takes 10 minutes per week; really not much longer th\'an any other system.</p>\r\n<p> So how does it work? Each helmsman gets one point for every other helmsman he beats who started the race within a predetermined number below him or any number above hin. This predetermined number might seem critical but experience shows this is not. Selecting a relatively large number will give emphasis to success; a low number will benefit the man who turns out often. An average would be about the same as average turnout, For example, if the average turnout is about 10,<br />\r\na number of 5 would put most emphasis on turnout, would be normal and 20 would put emphasis on success. One small thing more; every helmsman gets an \'extra\' point provided he is not disqualified.</p>\r\n<p> The length of the series (total number of races) is not important but the system works best with more than 8 races. Ties sometimes occur at the end of a series; they cannot be broken and must stand.</p>\r\n<p> As an example, let\'s follow a series of a small singlehanded fleet last winter. A number of 5 was chosen which turned out to be somewhat less than the average turnout, thereby emphasising \'turnout\'.</p>\r\n<p>The were 8 entrants in the first race and the score chart has plenty of room\r\n  downwards for people to join in later in the\r\nseries. Across there are columns for \'Position in race\', \'Points awarded\', arid \'Cumulative Total\' for each race. Scoring the first race is easy; Bart won so he gets one point for each helmsman he beat (7), plus the extra point which everyone gets, provided they are not disqualified, so that is 8 points. Jason came second and gets 7 and so on.</p>\r\n<table width=\"200\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <th scope=\"col\">&nbsp;</th>\r\n    <th colspan=\"3\" scope=\"col\">7th November </th>\r\n  </tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <th scope=\"row\">&nbsp;</th>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">Pos</div></td>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">Pts</div></td>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">Cum</div></td>\r\n  </tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <th scope=\"row\">Bart</th>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n  </tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <th scope=\"row\">Matthew</th>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n  </tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <th scope=\"row\">Jason</th>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">7</div></td>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">7</div></td>\r\n  </tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <th scope=\"row\">Christian</th>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">7</div></td>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n  </tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <th scope=\"row\">Davd</th>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n  </tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <th scope=\"row\">Dombey</th>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n  </tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <th scope=\"row\">Kevin</th>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n  </tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <th scope=\"row\">Simon</th>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n  </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<p> In the second race Sean and Nicola join\r\n  the series. They are both good but Nicola has a leg in plaster which does hinder her quite a bit! Sean wins and because he started the race with no points he gets his\r\n  point for each helmsman he beats plus one 1 totaling 10. Bart came second. Here comes I the interesting bit. He started the ace with 8 points from which we deduct the number\r\n  5 and the remainder is 3, so he only scores.\r\nOff people he beats who started this race with 3 or more points. There are 5 of them. plus his extra point, which makes 6. Kevin and Simon retired so they each get just their one point.</p>\r\n<table width=\"200\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th width=\"61\" scope=\"col\">&nbsp;</th>\r\n     <th colspan=\"3\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" scope=\"col\">7th November </th>\r\n     <th colspan=\"3\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" scope=\"col\">14th November </th>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">&nbsp;</th>\r\n     <td width=\"28\"><div align=\"center\">Pos</div></td>\r\n     <td width=\"23\"><div align=\"center\">Pts</div></td>\r\n     <td width=\"35\"><div align=\"center\">Cum</div></td>\r\n     <td width=\"30\"><div align=\"center\">Pos</div></td>\r\n     <td width=\"30\"><div align=\"center\">Pts</div></td>\r\n     <td width=\"35\"><div align=\"center\">Cum</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Bart</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">14</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Matthew</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">7</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">13</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Jason</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">7</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">7</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">12</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Christian</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">7</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Davd</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">7</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Dombey</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Kevin</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">R</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Simon</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">R</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Sean</th>\r\n     <td>&nbsp;</td>\r\n     <td>&nbsp;</td>\r\n     <td>&nbsp;</td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">10</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">10</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Nicola</th>\r\n     <td>&nbsp;</td>\r\n     <td>&nbsp;</td>\r\n     <td>&nbsp;</td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n <p>After the fifth race Sean is, at lasl, in the lead    and Bart and Matthew are lying for second place. Let\'s just analyse the    results to    date:</p>\r\n <ul>\r\n   <li>Sean has 1,2,2,1</li>\r\n   <li>Bart has 1,2,1,3</li>\r\n   <li> Matthew has 3,3,1,2</li>\r\n </ul>\r\n <p> You may think    that as Matthew\'s scores are not as good as Bart\' s he doesn\'t deserve his    2nd but on closer scrutiny, Mauhew\'s win beat Sean and Bart, where as neither    of Bart\'s 1st  beat Sean <em>and </em>Matthew.</p>\r\n <table width=\"200\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th width=\"61\" scope=\"col\">&nbsp;</th>\r\n     <th colspan=\"3\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" scope=\"col\">7th November </th>\r\n     <th colspan=\"3\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" scope=\"col\">14th November </th>\r\n     <th colspan=\"3\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" scope=\"col\">21st November </th>\r\n     <th colspan=\"3\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" scope=\"col\">28th November </th>\r\n     <th colspan=\"3\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" scope=\"col\">5th December </th>\r\n     <th colspan=\"3\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" scope=\"col\">12th December </th>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">&nbsp;</th>\r\n     <td width=\"28\"><div align=\"center\">Pos</div></td>\r\n     <td width=\"23\"><div align=\"center\">Pts</div></td>\r\n     <td width=\"35\"><div align=\"center\">Cum</div></td>\r\n     <td width=\"30\"><div align=\"center\">Pos</div></td>\r\n     <td width=\"30\"><div align=\"center\">Pts</div></td>\r\n     <td width=\"35\"><div align=\"center\">Cum</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pos</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pts</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Cum</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pos</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pts</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Cum</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pos</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pts</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Cum</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pos</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pts</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Cum</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Bart</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">14</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">17</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">18</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">18</div></td>\r\n     <td colspan=\"3\" rowspan=\"10\"><div align=\"center\">Gales -<br />\r\n       No Racing </div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Matthew</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">7</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">13</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">13</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">17</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">18</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Jason</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">7</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">7</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">12</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">14</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">14</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">14</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Christian</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">7</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">10</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Davd</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">7</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">9</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">9</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">10</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Dombey</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Kevin</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">R</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">9</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">10</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">14</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Simon</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">R</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">11S</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Sean</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\"></div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\"></div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\"></div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">10</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">10</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">14</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">17</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">19</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Nicola</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\"></div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\"></div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\"></div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n </table>\r\n <p>Nicola had to rest while her plaster was removed but joined in earnest at the end of January. She gets good results and because of the effect of the system catches us fast.. As she approaches the leaders though, she\'ll find it more difficult to advance.</p>\r\n <p> It is interesting to see how Kevin fares, he never misses a race but also he doesn\'t win races nor beat the top helmsmen. However, because the relatively low number of 5 has the effect of restraining the leaders Kevin is now tying 4th with Nicola.</p>\r\n <table width=\"200\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th width=\"61\" scope=\"col\">&nbsp;</th>\r\n     <th colspan=\"3\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" scope=\"col\">5th December </th>\r\n     <th colspan=\"3\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" scope=\"col\">2nd January </th>\r\n     <th colspan=\"3\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" scope=\"col\">23rd January  </th>\r\n     <th colspan=\"3\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" scope=\"col\">30th January </th>\r\n     <th colspan=\"3\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" scope=\"col\">6th Febuary </th>\r\n     <th colspan=\"3\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" scope=\"col\">13th Febuary  </th>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">&nbsp;</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pos</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pts</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Cum</div></td>\r\n     <td width=\"30\"><div align=\"center\">Pos</div></td>\r\n     <td width=\"30\"><div align=\"center\">Pts</div></td>\r\n     <td width=\"35\"><div align=\"center\">Cum</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pos</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pts</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Cum</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pos</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pts</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Cum</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pos</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pts</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Cum</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pos</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pts</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Cum</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Bart</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">18</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">20</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">22</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">23</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">23</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">26</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Matthew</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">18</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">21</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">24</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">24</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">26</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">26</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Jason</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">14</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">14</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">R</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">15</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">15</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">19</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">19</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Christian</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">10</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">11</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">13</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">13</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">18</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">18</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Davd</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">10</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">10</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">13</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">14</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">17</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">24</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Dombey</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Kevin</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">14</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">16</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">19</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">20</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">21</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">24</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Simon</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">11S</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">11</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">11</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">11</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">7</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">13</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">15</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Sean</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">19</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">23</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">20</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">26</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">28</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">R</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">29</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Nicola</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">10</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">18</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">24</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Cam</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">R</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">R</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n </table>\r\n <p>On 13th February Sean got fed up and retired. It is costly for a leader to retire because everyone scores off him. A third place in the next race on 20th February and not entering the race on 27th February removes him from the lead. A 2nd and 4th on the next two races and he\'s down to 3rd equal, though with a 2nd on 20th March he climbs back to 2nd.</p>\r\n <table width=\"200\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th width=\"61\" scope=\"col\">&nbsp;</th>\r\n     <th colspan=\"3\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" scope=\"col\">13th Febuary </th>\r\n     <th colspan=\"3\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" scope=\"col\">20th February  </th>\r\n     <th colspan=\"3\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" scope=\"col\">27th February  </th>\r\n     <th colspan=\"3\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" scope=\"col\">6th March  </th>\r\n     <th colspan=\"3\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" scope=\"col\">13th March  </th>\r\n     <th colspan=\"3\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" scope=\"col\">20th March  </th>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">&nbsp;</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pos</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pts</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Cum</div></td>\r\n     <td width=\"30\"><div align=\"center\">Pos</div></td>\r\n     <td width=\"30\"><div align=\"center\">Pts</div></td>\r\n     <td width=\"35\"><div align=\"center\">Cum</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pos</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pts</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Cum</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pos</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pts</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Cum</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pos</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pts</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Cum</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pos</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pts</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Cum</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Bart</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">26</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">29</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">32</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">32</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">33</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">39</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Matthew</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">26</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">26</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">28</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">32</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">36</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">39</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Jason</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">19</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">19</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">25</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">9</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">26</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">31</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">33</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Christian</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">18</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">18</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">21</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">26</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">7</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">29</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">29</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Davd</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">24</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">20</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">22</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">7</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">25</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">27</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">7</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">29</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Dombey</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">10</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">13</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">13</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Kevin</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">24</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">25</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Dsq</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">25</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">27</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">31</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">34</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Simon</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">15</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">16</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">34</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">34</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">35</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">40</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Sean</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">R</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">29</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">31</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">34</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">34</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">35</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">40</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Nicola</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">24</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">28</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">28</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">34</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">38</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">42</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Cam</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">7</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">9</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">9</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">11</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">10</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">9</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">11</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n </table>\r\n <p>   With two more races to go anyone of four or live can win and all will do their utmost to attend these last vital races. Unfortunately Nicola could not make the 27th March. She could still have won the series though had she won the last race, but Sean took the honours which gave him the series.<br />\r\n   The system was first called \'Ostrobogulous League\' (indeed many clubs still use this name). Since then I\'ve discovered \'league\' means something quite different and I use the word \'cumulative\' which better emphasises the most vital fealure of the system: the facility for each helm to see at any time just where he stands in relation to the leaders and, if he is a middle of the fleet man, in relation to the helmsmen of his own standard.<br />\r\n   But perhaps the real benefit of the system is that it produces a champion; someone who will have to win, at home, often, and when the best are racing, and who really can be called the \'club champion\'.</p>\r\n <table width=\"200\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th width=\"61\" scope=\"col\">&nbsp;</th>\r\n     <th colspan=\"3\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" scope=\"col\">27th March </th>\r\n     <th colspan=\"3\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" scope=\"col\">3rd April  </th>\r\n     <th nowrap=\"nowrap\" scope=\"col\">&nbsp;</th>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">&nbsp;</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pos</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Pts</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">Cum</div></td>\r\n     <td width=\"30\"><div align=\"center\">Pos</div></td>\r\n     <td width=\"30\"><div align=\"center\">Pts</div></td>\r\n     <td width=\"35\"><div align=\"center\">Cum</div></td>\r\n     <td nowrap=\"nowrap\"><div align=\"center\">Overall position </div>       </td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Bart</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">43</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">45</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">= 3rd </div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Matthew</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">42</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">45</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">= 3rd </div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Jason</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">36</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">39</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">= 5th </div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Christian</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">30</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">7</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">33</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">= 7th </div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Davd</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">7</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">31</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">8</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">33</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">= 7th </div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Dombey</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">13</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">13</div></td>\r\n     <td> <div align=\"center\">10th </div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Kevin</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">38</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">39</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">= 5th</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Simon</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">5</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">29</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">9</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">30</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">9th</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Sean</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">3</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">41</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">6</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">47</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">1st</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Nicola</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">42</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">4</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">46</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">2nd</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n   <tr>\r\n     <th scope=\"row\">Cam</th>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">11</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">-</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">11</div></td>\r\n     <td><div align=\"center\">11th</div></td>\r\n   </tr>\r\n </table>\r\n <p> P.S. There may be typos in the tables, the Editor	</p>','http://www.queenmary.org.uk/','','Cumulative, Points, Scoring, System','2007-10-10 16:04:16'),(14,2,'BSC Sailing Instuctions',4,'These are the old Sailing Instructions, writern from 2000 to 2003 for <a href=\"http://www.brightonsc.no-ip.org\" target=\"_blank\">Brighton Sailing Club</a> As far as I\'m concerned you can use these as a template, or edit it as you see fit. However , many of the point in here uote directly out of the RRS. So there may be copyright issues.','http://www.brigtons.no-ip.org/','sailinginst+OOD.rtf','Brighton, Sailing, Club, race, sailing, instructions, rules','2004-12-31 12:06:46'),(16,3,'Silly Season on the Internet',3,'<h3>Stupid Post about WiFi interferance does the rounds</h3>\r\n<p>Last Wednesday I when dow nthe beach to figure out why <a href=\"http://www.piertopier.net\" target=\"_blank\">PierToPier.net</a> had gone down. Mostly it was the problem with node 1\'s Router. However that shouldn\'t have taken down the whole network, it should have been able to route the the Granville, acept they\'d hung Tinsel on the antenna!</p>\r\n<h3> Original Message to the Pietopier tech list</h3>\r\n<P>World War 2 Radar Jamming as effective today as it was on D-Day.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>\"Window\" was the codename for strips of foil dropped by Lancasters on D-Day to fool German Radar into believing there was an attack on Calais. Radar bounces off the foil sending the radar waves in random directions.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Nowadays we don\'t call it window, we call it &#8220;Tinsel&#8221;. Lots of small reflective strips. Tinsel is an effective blocker of microwaves as Window ever was. Yesterdays network outage was caused primarily by the addition of some, very tasteful, Christmas decorations to the antenna of node 4!</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Node 1&#8217;s ADSL line is still out, the routers up and reports the ADSL is up but still no joy. I Have blocknoded node 1 off from node 2 as since it can ping the ADSL router it thinks it&#8217;s a gateway, and keeps advertising its self as such. Node&#8217;s 2,3,4,5 are all up and routing through the Granville.</p>\r\n\r\n<p> The Story was picked up by <a href=http://stack.dnsalias.net/~dphelan\" target=\"_blank\">Dave</a> who put it on his blog. The by the register who posted it as part of the folow up to Xmass lights take out ADSL. Roll on Christmass when thigs get sane.</P>','http://www.theregister.co.uk','',NULL,'2004-12-19 01:26:34'),(212,3,'Collected Curios',5,'Jolly Jacks Collected Curios, home of Sequential Art','http://www.collectedcurios.com','3',NULL,'2007-03-13 14:31:30'),(19,2,'Dart Hawk',6,'This is a Gallery of pictures of me and Matt Brown Sailing on his Dart Hawk, taken over several years. Mostly at Brighton Sailing Club.\r\nWe killed this boat, I\'m sorry to say. It rocked, seriously hurt me a few times, but solidly enforced a climate of fear in the competion, as well as making Matt and my reputations\' in the Sailing Club, nearly sliced a hobie 16 in two once, without a scratch. If I didn\'t love the 14 I\'d really miss that boat.\r\nEDIT: since the above the boat has been restored by Andy, an will live again. Hopefully terroriseing another bunch of 16 sailors.','http://www.brightonsc.no-ip.org/photos/','HAWKTRAINweb','brighton, sailing, club, dart, hawk, formular, 18, f18 ','2004-12-31 12:11:51'),(20,2,'Going Like a Train',2,'Reaching in the reggatta 2001 or wa it 2000?','HAWKTRAINweb','19','dart, hawk, f18, formular, 18, wallpaper, brighton, sailing, club','2004-12-31 12:12:19'),(21,2,'Spinaker Up',2,'Matt Rang up and insisted hyde\'s make him a Union Jack Spinnaker.','kite','19',NULL,'2004-12-18 22:02:03'),(22,2,'Beach background',2,'I like his one, twin wiring. Pitty we didn\'t have our weight together.','matt main','19',NULL,'2004-12-18 22:04:38'),(23,2,'Nose Dive',2,'Going down the mine.......AGAIN','MINEweb','19',NULL,'2004-12-18 22:10:18'),(24,2,'Typical',2,'You get a nice close up and they catch you half way in from the wire for the kite hoist.','HAWKCLOSEweb','19',NULL,'2004-12-18 23:44:59'),(25,3,'Sherm\'s Blog',5,'I havn\'t acutually read this. Probably should she\'s me flatmate.','http://www.livejournal.com/users/shermarama/','2',NULL,'2004-12-19 01:49:09'),(26,3,'B3ta, we love the web',5,'I love the web! Political Correctess take a hike....More Kittens! Preferably in a blender.','http://www.b3ta.com','1',NULL,'2004-12-19 01:48:34'),(28,2,'RS 400 Class',5,'Sailed these a lot, beloved by racers, probably the fastest production hiking dinghy, a very good boat that\'s never quite  won my heart despite being absolutely excellent. Hate Fatface clothing so I\'ll never fit in in one anyway.','http://www.rs-association.com/','3',NULL,'2004-12-19 01:40:01'),(463,3,'Karma part II and dental tourism',3,'<img src=\"content/pic/neilEskil.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" />Some of you may have seen an earlier blog post entitled Karma. About how I lost a pair of sun glasses on reduit beach, then found a new pair. Well Karma hadn\'t finished with me yet. The pair I found in the surf on Reduit beach, retuned the Davy Jone\'s locker whence they came, during a rather rough dinghy landing. May be I should have tried harder to find the owner.</P>\r\n\r\n<p>Also this morning I wen\'t to the Dentist, its been a while since I last went. Quite a long while. I\'ve been meaning to for ages. But haven\'t been on the books of a Dentist, and there hard to find on the NHS these days. The ache that made my mind up started days before I flew out. The Dentist here in St Lucia, was nice friendly helpful, not too disaproving of of my long absence from the chair. What I can say is, even If I was on the NHS its a lot cheaper over here. If we in England are worried about people comming over and using the NHS as \"Medical Tourists&quot; then we probably get it back on the Dental side £35 for a checkup and a filling. Don\'t thing hte NHS can beat that. Even If you could find an NHS dentist.</p>','','','','2008-01-07 14:59:24'),(204,3,'Muddy Linux',3,'<img src=\"images/logos/muddy.png\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\"> I\'ve fianally put Muddy Linux together, it worked well up at glade, this version has ben called 0.1 by piertopier. It is missing some bits I want it too have but its also much neater and bug free than last time.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nMuddy is an offshoot of Pebble Linux, built for doing large area wifi nets. Its a self building meash (ish) network using WDS and OSPF to build a network.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nI can say with confidence theis version actually works.... Not as well as it one day will. You can get it from the piertopier.net <a href=\"http://wiki.piertopier.net/index.php/Muddy\" taget=\"_blank\">wiki</a> temporally <br />\r\n<br />\r\nTom','','','Muddy, Linux, ','2006-07-25 15:37:29'),(30,3,'Andris\'s Chain Saw Sculptures',5,'Andris makes nice things with his chainsaw. Very nice things.','http://www.chainsawsculptures.co.uk/','3',NULL,'2004-12-19 01:36:17'),(31,2,'Raprasad',5,'Sam\'s Yacht, on which I\'ve crossed the Atlantic Twice.',' http://homepages.rya-online.net/sacoles/','2',NULL,'2004-12-19 01:35:47'),(32,2,'Up Wind',2,'I\'ve even got my back straight!','HAWKUPWINDweb','19',NULL,'2004-12-19 13:27:51'),(33,2,'wildwind',5,'Wildwind sailing holidays in Lefkas Greece. They specialies in high wind cat sailing, thought the\'ve got mono\'s as well. The instuctors led by Little Joe are great, probably going to die of Cirrhosis of the Liver','http://www.wildwind.co.uk/','2',NULL,'2004-12-19 01:34:55'),(34,3,'Amazing Parties',5,'Frieds Company, and my former employers. Parties Themed bad parking performed etc.','http://www.amazingpartythemes.com/','3',NULL,'2004-12-19 10:22:25'),(35,2,'Sunny Day',2,'I\'ll think of a caption for this later!','Matt_Tom','19',NULL,'2004-12-19 01:01:13'),(36,2,'Faster than the Competion',2,'Racing in 2003, photo by Eddie','Matt_Paul_Ed','19',NULL,'2004-12-19 01:07:26'),(37,2,'RS 824',6,'Summer 2004, I helped a friend toe his boat down to Lake Garda for the RS Eurocup. It was great force 5 or 6 every day. Mediteranian sunshine lovely town, beautifu scenery. We did ok as well!','http://www.rs-association.com/','train',NULL,'2004-12-19 09:33:46'),(38,2,'Going Like a Train',2,'Reaching towards the finish line it was very tight. If you got a gust it was hang on and hope you\'ll lay the finish line.','train','37',NULL,'2004-12-19 10:18:52'),(39,2,'Smoothly Does it',2,'Nice bit of boat trim. However you have to remember NOT to try an undertake RS200\'s. Its tepting, you\'ve got the speed and heading up with th Kite causes no end of trouble but you can\'t take \'e to leward. Trust me.','smooth','37',NULL,'2004-12-19 10:20:11'),(40,2,'Finishing',2,'Diging a trench in the sea, hands hurting took years off the life of the mast. But he we fiished with the kite up, significanlty others didn\'t manage it.','cliff','37',NULL,'2004-12-19 10:21:39'),(41,2,'Hiking',2,'Here we are close up on the final reach. It hurt.','hike','37',NULL,'2004-12-19 10:17:48'),(42,2,'Down Wind',2,'This time we\'re actually ailing with the kite at the proper angle. We we\'t too fast off the wind. We have to work on that.','down','37',NULL,'2004-12-19 10:23:57'),(43,2,'Upwind',2,'Fighting our way up wind. I own a trapeze boat, hiking is painful. Next time in Garda must take the 14, and some valium.','flat','37',NULL,'2004-12-19 10:25:39'),(44,3,'Varndean College',5,NULL,'http://www.varndean.ac.uk/','5',NULL,'2004-12-19 11:25:41'),(45,1,'Dave\'s Blog',5,'Dave\'s a member of the piertopier.net team, his blog oftern contains usefull stuff and links to piertopier.net wiki. Press Cuttings etc.','http://stack.dnsalias.net/~dphelan/','2',NULL,'2004-12-19 11:29:20'),(47,2,'RYA',5,'The Govening body of Sailing in the UK, main reson to visit id Y numbers.','http://www.rya.org.uk','5',NULL,'2004-12-19 11:31:45'),(213,1,'Chillispot',5,'Chillispot, capive portal for linux','http://www.chillispot.org','3',NULL,'2007-03-13 14:32:57'),(49,1,'The Register',5,'Geek news, sometimes Piertopier.net gets a mention. See early blog about Tincel and WiFi.\r\n','http://www.theregister.co.uk/','4',NULL,'2004-12-31 16:02:21'),(214,2,'RS600',6,'This is the new boat. Had too much trouble getting a regular crew so bought a single hander.','http://www.brightonsc.org.uk/photos/','wire','rs, 600, rs600, racing, BSC, brighton, sail, skiff','2007-05-12 17:06:35'),(52,2,'Shoreham Weather',5,'Online weather station just down the road.','http://www.shorehamweather.com','4',NULL,'2004-12-19 11:39:51'),(215,2,'',2,'Rolling it what breeze there isn\'t (pumping as its other wise known)','roll','214',NULL,'2007-05-12 17:15:43'),(216,2,'',2,'I didn\'t touch the mark I can assure you, its bigger than it looks!','round','214',NULL,'2007-05-12 17:17:19'),(54,8,'Hiva Oa Wallpaper',4,'<p>This is a photo of Ornen taken by me in Hiva Oa in the Marquesas<img src=\"content/down/HivaOalink.jpg\" alt=\"thumbnail of Ornen at HivaOa\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">.<br>\r\n I Set it as desktop walpaper when I get  deperessed about being in England.</p>','','HivaOa.jpg','Hiva, Oa, marquesas, polynesia, french, francais, atuona, image, picture photo, walpaper, desktop, 1024, 768, ornen','2004-12-31 14:30:07'),(55,3,'Wanking Sends You Blind',3,'Just Saw this on the register, final proof that interfereing with yourself sends you blind.<br />\n<br />\nI\'m not sure about he porn for kids bit either... hopefully the\'ll grow out of it.<br />\n<br />\nIn the UK most kids a sexual active before they can read anyway.','http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/17/playboy_ibod/','',NULL,'2004-12-19 15:43:14'),(57,1,'Lucent PCMCIA - ISA adapter (Vadem)',3,'I had a PCMCIA - ISA adapter cheap of ebay. When I first put it in win98 it windows died, wouldn\'t boot and said Quote:<br />\r\n<span class=\"code\">Error in IO Subsys</span> 	<br />\r\nor some such nonsence. <br />\r\n <br />\r\nDon\'t worry windows already has the drivers for this card! <br />\r\n <br />\r\nSolution, take the card back out. Boot windows, when it finally settles down and stops diverting you to safe mode, go to the control pannel:<br />\r\n <br />\r\nselect <span class=\"code\">add new hardware</span><br />\r\nSelect <span class=\"code\">Hardware From list</span><br />\r\nSelect <span class=\"code\">PCMCIA slot</span><br />\r\n <br />\r\nfind Vadem <br />\r\nSelect <span class=\"code\">Vadem PCIC compatible PCMCIA</span><br />\r\n<br />\r\nthe only other option was for a Vagdem PCIC compatible PCMCIA Plug and Play, this may work, I was using a card with a Vagdem 469 chip on it, and the non Plug and Pray worked fine. <br />\r\n  <br />\r\ninsert the wreched windows cd when prompted assuming you didn\'t get pissed off and copy it to the hard drive wasting loads of space.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nWhen its finished it will ask you to reboot, when its shutdown, add the card boot up and stuff in you orinoco card and it will work....... Hopefully.','http://www.piertopier.net/forum/YaBB.pl?board=Wisdom;action=display;num=1078150257','','lucent, PCMCIA, isa, adapter, cardbus, trouble, howto, Vagdem, 469, chipset, help, tips windows, 98','2004-12-31 14:27:33'),(58,1,'Static IP with a Mesh AP MeshBox',3,'The Mesh ap is quite automated. As such using Linux commands to configure it after it has booted is not a good idea. <br />\r\n <br />\r\nMesh ap will automatically become WiFi to internet router IF it detects an internet conection. If you are connection it to a network which requires you to manually enter the IP address on each machine then try these instructions: <br />\r\n <br />\r\nOnce booted, login on the console as root user (or SSH in as root) and create a file called <span class=\"code\">/etc/STATIC</span> <br />\r\n <br />\r\nIt is recommended to use the vi editor for this  <br />\r\n <br />\r\ncreate the file like so:  <br />\r\n <br />\r\n <br />\r\n<span class=\"code\">   1.2.3.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 <br />\r\n   3.4.5.6 </span><br />\r\n <br />\r\nWhere 1.2.3.4 is the IP address you want for the meshAP device and replace 255.255.255.0 with your local netmask and 3.4.5.6 with your gateway address.  <br />\r\n <br />\r\n<b>IMPORTANT</b> - make sure you end the gateway address line with a carriage return.  <br />\r\n <br />\r\nWhen you\'ve done the above then you need to reboot, meshap should come up set up right.  <br />\r\n <br />\r\nStage 2, now it should be able to get on the internet, you can test this by opening a terminal and typeing <br />\r\n <br />\r\n<span class=\"code\">ping www.yahoo.com</span>, if it says \"Reply from ....\" then its working. <br />\r\n <br />\r\nStage 2 if the box is registered to wiana you will have to go there and type the settings into the config page as bellow: <br />\r\n <br />\r\n <br />\r\nIts probably a good idea to force wiana to update the meshbox as a test. use the comand <span class=\"code\">remotemanagement</span>','http://www.piertopier.net/forum/YaBB.pl?board=Wisdom;action=display;num=1068399387','','mesh, ap, meshap, locustworld, wiana, static, address, IP','2004-12-31 14:26:11'),(59,2,'Race Start Crib',4,'Watch it this is <b>BIG</b>(1.6 Meg), its a graphic of the BSC start Sequence, probably the orginal fireworks document so its editable, we use odd flags. I should at some point dig out the flags as separate gifs. Its .PNG (portable network graphic) readable by nearly everything.','0','crib.png','race, brighton, sailing, club, flags, sequence, 5, 4, 1, go, rules, picture, image, crib, help, tips','2004-12-31 14:25:06'),(264,9,'Go East',3,'<img src=\"content/pic/trip1/whale.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" alt=\"My leg and a whale\">  <h3>Go East.(life is boring there)</h3>\r\n <p> Its never been a dream for me, to sail a shrimp trawler \r\n  accross the sea - <a href=\"song.htm\">Ros Woodward</a><br>\r\n  its never been a dream for me to sail BACK accross the sea!</p>\r\n <p>After the day of recovery from the now infamous Mount \r\n  Gay Rum Party, we set off for St Martin, to put Rauni on a plane \r\n  and then head home via the Azores. We emidiatly found our selves a loverly \r\n  bar, with shower (only the one) internet, and cheap beer, out of date \r\n  Fosters, drink before Jan 2001. A least during happy hour we could drink \r\n  the other beers at the same price. There was also very good food at \r\n  the bar (Lagoonies) provided by an insane frenchman, usually drunk. \r\n  On 2 occations I tried to explain my favourite European union Joke to \r\n  him \"What\'s a Frenchmans worst nightmare???\" answer \"its \r\n  a place where the English do the cooking and the Germans do the entertainment\". \r\n  Lagoonies bookswap also had a copy Adolf Hitler My part in his Downfall. \r\n  The highly inacurate auto biography of Spike Millagan. How we won the \r\n  war I don\'t know. All the boat has read it I think I will read it again. \r\n  I will read it again cos I\'m at 37°13.37\'N 29°57.44\'W or 98.3 nautical \r\n  miles from Horta, on Faial in the Azores. Nothing iteresting has happend \r\n  in the last 17.2398578867353 Days. So re reading books no seems interesting. \r\n  When I say nothing interesting has happend What I mean is. aboout 8 \r\n  really boring ships have been seen its rained 7.5 boring times and one \r\n  brilliant occation it rained only silghtly borring (and exeptionaly \r\n  wet, cats and dogs, and not Yorkies and Jelicals either. it rained Siberian \r\n  Tigers and Timber wolfs - ON ME) We\'ve seen some rubbish floating past \r\n  (I even hit one bit) it was borring. We\'ve drunk 7 cases of borring \r\n  beer. Some boring wine... etc. On the other hand we\'ve had no head winds \r\n  and weve only been beclamed 3 times. And I shouldn\'t complain it usually \r\n  rains on Matt! I have been looking forward to my mobile phone working \r\n  again. So I can ring people up on the way home to UK.<br>\r\n  \"RING RING, \'HELLO\' 863.2 Nautical miles and I\'m comming to get you....\"<br>\r\n  \"245.3 Nautical miles and I\'m comming to get you.....\"<br>\r\n  \"[Deap Breaths] 127Miles........CLICK\"<br>\r\n  \"10 Miles and I\'m getting closser.....\"<br>\r\n  \"......EEERRRRRM I\'m aground in brighton marina entrance can you organise \r\n  me a tow?......\"<br>\r\n  The Highest mountain in Portugal is 7713ft high and its on Pico, the \r\n  Azore next to the one were going to. Buy my marine calcultaions it should \r\n  be visible from 102Nautical Miles away.<br />\r\n<p align=\"center\"><img src=\"content/pic/trip1/pico.jpg\" alt=\"Pico Looms out of the North West\" width=\"630\" height=\"178\"></p>\r\n  It isn\'t but then again it is raining... So much for the wonders of \r\n  mathematics and marine navigaion better make that 8.5 borring rains. \r\n  If they put a mobile phone antenna on it I should be able to make threaterning \r\n  phone calls on it by now. No such luck either that the volcan\'s erupted \r\n  again. No boom today, Boom tommorrow always boom tomorrow.</p>\r\n <H3>EUROPE</h3>\r\n <p>We arived in Horta at 12:15 0n the 23rd of May 17 days \r\n  and 21 hours 15minuits and a inderterminate number of seconds. After \r\n  a game of musical boats at the reception/fuel dock we came along side \r\n  the marina wall, rafted out next to a great french boat. Also our friends \r\n  from Roxi (swan 38) showed up <img src=\"content/pic/trip1/well.jpg\" width=\"253\" height=\"257\" align=\"right\">and \r\n  brought a crate of beer over along with the three french guys off the \r\n  boat next door, and 2 young doctors who were on a boat called eagle \r\n  wing. These 2 were very apologetic, at carnival these were the \"Experts\" \r\n  I consulted with on VHF about Sam\'s damaged head. Apparently they felt \r\n  guilty about not comming over and having a look at him. They\'d been \r\n  out on Jouvert night with the same Band! I felt worried, Rauni was hysterical \r\n  about Sam, Eagle Wing felt quilty......In fact the only person who was \r\n  unphased and not the least bit worried was Sam, despite requiring 7 \r\n  stitches.</p>\r\n  <p>\r\n  We intended to go to the hot Rocks (not something sexual) which is a \r\n  resteraunt, with all of the inproptue party. How ever the improptue \r\n  party was so successfull that the resteraunt was full and had run out \r\n  of food by the time we got there.</p>\r\n <p>We took a tour of Pico the very impressive island accross \r\n  a narrow channel from Horata, being on a ferry seemed slightly strange, \r\n  but moring yachts in small fishing harbours open to atlantic swells \r\n  is not a good idea.</p>\r\n <p align=\"center\"><img src=\"content/pic/trip1/no%20admit.gif\" alt=\"The English Sence o humor, i did n\'t miss it.\" width=\"612\" height=\"205\"><br>\r\n  I didn\'t miss the English Humor</p>\r\n <p>I will finish this page off when it happens. I have some photos suitible for this \r\n  page. Unforunatly their all in the camera still. I have photos for \"Mangrove \r\n  Swamp \" and \" Rum Doo \" comming \r\n  as well. I\'m rather looking forward to the rum do photos! I will add \r\n  them In when I get Back home were Internet is cheap and I cand scan \r\n  for free. I will also clear up the mess this site is in. Sam\'s laptop \r\n  is great but it is a 486sx and doing any global change of graphics work \r\n  is painfully slow.</p>\r\n \r\n','','','horta, atlantic, azores, whales, pico, fihal','2007-10-10 08:20:40'),(256,9,'Play Carnival',5,'Trinidad Carnival','http://www.playcarnival.com/','4',NULL,'2007-10-09 19:41:01'),(257,9,'Renagades',5,'Trini Steel orchestra','http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE0lCoudFSE','3',NULL,'2007-10-09 19:42:31'),(258,9,'Carnival',3,' <p>\'I Wanna Come Home All covered in Mud\' The \r\n Who<img src=\"content/pic/trip1/manson.jpg\" alt=\"Marilyn Manson, eat your heart out\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" align=\"right\">\r\n</p>\r\n <h3 align =\"center\">J\'ouvert \r\n  Morning </h3>\r\n  <p>After missing the Panorama (Steel Bands of 50 to 100 musicians, \r\n  with multiple instruments) due to excessive consumption of Alcohol \r\n  at the TTSA pre carnival fun race, half the crew didn\'t turn up \r\n  and to fulfill the sailing instructions 3 of us were obliged to \r\n  drink the bottle of rum given to us at the briefing. All was peaceful \r\n  right through Sunday, until 1:00am when we caught a maxi taxi \r\n  into Port of Spain, where we donned our costumes. Resplendent \r\n  in our Flour Bag surcoats we consumed much beer and rum punch, \r\n  before beginning our parade through POS(Port of Spain). A mixture \r\n  of mud and paint was liberally applied, by/to anyone who seemed \r\n  appropriate*.As the Power Boats Scorpions Pan band crawled off \r\n  towed by its tractor I found my self out in front waving the banner \r\n  all over the place.The 2 escorting Pickups of security took up \r\n  their places on each side, their primary job to hand out the Rum \r\n  punch and Beers the pick ups contained. As SONY said about the \r\n  Playstation, <i>do not under estimate the power of rum punch.</i></p>\r\n <div class=\"blog\">\r\n		 <h3 align=\"center\">WHAT IS RUM PUNCH?<a name=\"punch\"></h3>\r\n <p>Rum Punch is a lethal mixture of Orange Juice, Grapefruit Juice \r\n  Angostura Bitters and LOTS and LOTS of <i>RUM</i> Not Just any \r\n  rum either, but 80% by volume white rum. This means that the brew \r\n  is a fragrant (the bitters) fruity drink and since the strong \r\n  rum is mostly alcohol and doesn\'t taste of much, the whole concoction \r\n  doesn\'t taste like there\'s much rum in it........... THIS IS DECEPTIVE, \r\n  drinking more than a few rum punches will render you incapable \r\n  if not horizontal with remarkable efficiency; I love it.</p>\r\n </div>\r\n <p><img src=\"content/pic/trip1/sandr.jpg\" alt=\"Muddy Crew!\" align=\"left\">We proceeded around the streets of POS dancing shouting (nothing \r\n about Carnival in Trinidad is quiet) smearing passers by with mud, \r\n well extra mud - there\'s no such thing as a clean Trini on the first \r\n night of Carnival.<br>\r\n The culture of Trinidad is wonderfully inclusive, the tourists don\'t \r\n just sit and watch the events go by - they\'re expected to join in. \r\n Most do, often because they\'ve been to carnival before. After carnival \r\n when I ran into Campbell and Skana off Dreamtime, Campbell said \"after \r\n what we\'d heard (from me) we thought it had been over-hyped, we believe \r\n it now\". Skana just said \"we\'re coming back\".  </p>\r\n <p align=\"left\"><br>\r\n Occasionally we\'d run up against other bands (Trinis use the word \r\n band as in \"band of men\", as well as musical band) with \r\n their sound trucks, usually we had plenty off warning a sound truck \r\n is audible from miles away. I remember some of our friends off Wingbeat \r\n saying look after Sam, I cheerfully agreed and pogoed off on my merry \r\n way to where ever I was going. Where I was <img src=\"content/pic/trip1/wingbeat.jpg\" alt=\"Calvin and Jane, off Wingbeat\" width=\"400\" height=\"306\" align=\"right\">going was anyone\'s guess. \r\n I remember charging into a Chinese take away and attempting to buy \r\n breakfast - there was a sound truck outside holding us up at the time \r\n and since they put out about the the same wattage as Glastonbury, \r\n communication was impossible, but what I ordered, what I got and what \r\n it tasted like, I have no idea, presumably I enjoyed it.</p>\r\n <p>My agreement to look after Sam proved \r\n  to be dishonest, at some point he and Rauni managed to lose the \r\n  band. By the time I\'d noticed the people who\'d made the suggestion \r\n  had disappeared also, I assumed, wrongly, that they were together. \r\n  It was only after we\'d triumphantly marched back to our start \r\n  point at the rugby club (a hour latter than planned, 7:30 am) \r\n  and returned to the TTSA clubhouse that I realized that this wasn\'t \r\n  the case. Sam and Rauni turned up (separately) about 9:30. I\'d \r\n  already cleaned myself up by jumping in the sea and scrubbing, \r\n  with the help of 2 American ladies</p>\r\n <p> I When something nudged my leg I assumed it was a sponge (which \r\n I didn\'t have) and picked it up. The jellyfish, being sober, was probably \r\n more surprised by this than I was - I discarded the Jellyfish on the \r\n assumption that jelly fish are probably not the best things for removing \r\n mud. I still have no Idea what the best thing for removing the mud \r\n is, 3 showers later I\'ve still got bits.</p>\r\n <p align=\"center\"><img src=\"content/pic/trip1/renagades.jpg\" alt=\"Renegades pan band.\" width=\"500\" height=\"134\"></p>\r\n <p align=\"center\"> My flour bag was discarded at the taxi, my T-shirt earlier in the \r\n evening and some unknown point, my shoes I left on the dock so as \r\n not to pollute the dinghy, sadly they too appear lost.<br>\r\n <br>\r\n <a name=\"experts\"></a>After discussions with experts, who are easy \r\n to find amongst those who have consumed much alcohol. It was decided \r\n that we should take Sam to the hospital to get stitches put in his \r\n head. By the time I\'d been come back the the boat for money and returned \r\n to TTSA it was noon. - Why bother with bed? So I went looking for \r\n Dreamtime, which meant I went to to the pub. The bar man who\'d been \r\n out all night and myself discussed the nights festivities with the \r\n others in the bar, who\'d missed them after which I went back to POS \r\n for a Roti.</p>\r\n <div class=\"blog\">\r\n		 <h3 align=\"center\">WHAT\'S A ROTI?</h3>\r\n		 <p>A Roti is the most popular dish in Trinidad, closely related \r\n  to the Buss Up Shot (literally \"bust up shirt\" Trini \r\n  spelling often follows their pronunciation \"d\" or \r\n  \"da\" for \'the\') It contains Indian food, beef or \r\n  chicken curry mixed with a sort of dall of chickpeas and potato \r\n  wrapped in a special bread.The bread is normal white dough \r\n  with vegetable shortening and baking powder. </p>\r\n <img src=\"content/pic/trip1/roti.jpg\" alt=\"Roti Man\" width=\"250\" height=\"203\" align=\"left\">\r\n <p>First you make it \r\n  into balls about half way between a golf ball and a tennis \r\n  ball, then you flatten 2 of them out to bout 6\" diameter \r\n  spread margarine on 1 side of 2 of them and combine them together. \r\n  Roll them out to about 15\" diameter.To cook the 15\" \r\n  pancake like thing, get a large (18\"+) aluminium plate \r\n  and put it on a gas stove. Brush it with cooking oil and carefully \r\n  spread the dough circle out on it. Brush more oil on the dough, \r\n  and turn. Ether wrap the chicken curry and dall in the resulting \r\n  baked bread thing or crumple the bread up on the cooking plate \r\n  and thump heavily with wooden spatula. This will break the \r\n  bread up a bit,for the bust up shirt effect. Serve dall and \r\n  curry along side it. I eat a lot of these, I\'ve only seen \r\n  them once in England, in Neasden, it wasn\'t good.</p>\r\n <p>Serve with \"da coolest beers\"</p>\r\n</div>\r\n <p>POS was still heaving, the sound trucks were out for \r\n  the preliminary judging of the Mas completion, at carnival everything\'s \r\n  a competition, the Soca, the Calypso, the Pan and the Mas** Costumes. \r\n  All the kings and queens dressed in their huge costumes, presumably \r\n  praying there wouldn\'t be any wind. A few hours of this was enough \r\n  for me, my legs hurt from dancing around all J\'ouvert night so I \r\n  went home for an early night.</p>\r\n  <p align=\"left\">Tuesday Mas dawned after a good nights sleep, early \r\n  rain occurred while we were in Independence square POS, however \r\n  unlike the rest of Trinidad I wasn\'t wearing a bra/tabard and Knickers \r\n  covered in sequins. Sam and Rauni however were, they were out with \r\n  <a href=\"http://www.barbarossaintl.com\">Barbarossa</a>, one of the \r\n  biggest Mas \"Bands\", with the Soca band \"Trafik\" \r\n  on their leading sound truck.<br>\r\n </p>\r\n			<div class=\"blog\">\r\n  <h3 align=\"center\">SOUND TRUCK? WHAT THE &%^\" THAT?</h3>\r\n  There are no floats in Trinidad carnival. All the participants \r\n  walk, however three are certain vehicles that follow them \r\n  with drinks or what ever and some times ever 100 person steel \r\n  bands. However the king of the road (street) is the Sound \r\n  truck. A sound truck is a shipping container transporter (40\' \r\n  lorry bed) with a large generator just behind the cab and \r\n  the rest of the truck piled to a height of about 8\' above \r\n  the bed with speaker stacks pointing all directions.</p>\r\n  <p align=\"center\"><img src=\"content/pic/trip1/soundtruck.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"130\" alt=\"Sound Truck\"></p>\r\n  <p>These trucks put out a wattage similar to an out door music \r\n  festival. The volume control is a delicate and important control. \r\n  It is carefully set to a level a fraction below what makes \r\n  the speakers distort, and left there. There are about 40 of \r\n  these trucks, and they are LOUD.</p>\r\n  <p>I want one! I\'ll show that Chris Eubank***</p>\r\n			 </div>\r\n  <p align=\"left\">Sam and Rauni, all togged up, met up with the <a href=\"http://www.barbarossaintl.com\">Barbarossa</a> \r\n  group in Independence square, I went in search of fags, taking the \r\n  suncream with me. After taking a ganda at the rest of <a href=\"http://www.barbarossaintl.com\">Barbarossa</a> \r\n  all 5000 odd of them, I returned to find Sam and Rauni\'s section \r\n  aproaching the judging point by the docks. As the bands approached, \r\n  I was quite suprised when a Trini woman, in broad daylight, in the \r\n  middle of a street, charged up and proceded to put her bum in my \r\n  crotch and roll her hips. Obviously no one paid any attention, this \r\n  is called \"wineing\" a traditionl Trini dance. The woman \r\n  turned out to be our friend Eulene who I\'d been expecting as she \r\n  had booked the same costume as Sam and Rauni.They carried on the \r\n  parade route and I went to check out the competion, which was stiff \r\n  and numerous. Poison, the largest carnival group, stretched back \r\n  about half a mile! The parades high point is the main judging point \r\n  in Queens Park Savannah, a large park in POS.</p>\r\n  <p align=\"left\"><img src=\"content/pic/trip1/mas.jpg\" alt=\"Rauni, Sam and Eulene, in mas costumes\" width=\"400\" height=\"390\" align=\"right\">When the sound trucks reach the Savannah and the danger \r\n  of overhead power cables is leesend the Band leaders and DJ\'s get \r\n  up on top of their trucks and start calypsoing along to encorage/organise \r\n  there bands. Organiseing and more to the point geting them off the \r\n  stage is quite a feet.</p>\r\n				<p> Poison who have the reputation for been the \r\n  worst behaved band as well as the largerst took over an hour amd \r\n  a half to cross the stage. Last year apparently they were diqualifed \r\n  because they wouldn\'t get off the stage. When <a href=\"http://www.barbarossaintl.com\">Barbarossa</a> \r\n  were crossing the stage one of the sound trucks passed within 2\' \r\n  of a policeman on a horse, the horse didn\'t even flinch. I asked \r\n  the copper (when the truck had moved on) about the apparently they \r\n  spend 2 months before carnival training the horses, all the Police \r\n  cadets dress up in carnival costumes and march past the horses to \r\n  the acompanyment of loud Soca music. Sounds fun.</p>\r\n				<p>\r\n  Shortly after this I returned, very nackered, to TTSA where many \r\n  bemused yachties, oftern with salvaged bits of carnival costumes \r\n  were drifting back home. Sam and Rauni returned later having obtaind \r\n  more cheap beer....and sunburn. We went to a quiet bay the following \r\n  day for an after Carnival Lime****.</p>\r\n </div></div>\r\n <hr>\r\n		<p>* - i.e. EVERYBODY<br>\r\n **Masquerade<br>\r\n ***Anyone not from Brighton won\'t get this.<br>\r\n **** Lime - verb to \"hang out\" or noun place to hang out in.</p>\r\n ','http://www.playcarnival.com','','carnival, trinidad, renagades, barbarossa','2007-10-09 19:47:56'),(253,10,'On the Busses',3,'<h3>Riding a bus in Grenada</h3>\r\n<h1> It is not a Suicidal Gesture</h1>\r\n        <p><em><strong>10 things you always wanted \r\n          to ask about riding busses in granada, but were afraid to ask:<br />\r\nReprinted from <a href=\"http://www.caribbeancompass.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Caribbean \r\n          compass magazine</a>, in 1999, article by Ray Goodwin, S/V Beauty and the Beast. \r\n          (Without permission)</strong></em></p>\r\n        <p class=\"blog\"><em><strong>1) How do I know \r\n          a bus from a taxi?</strong></em><br />\r\n          Easy. Taxis have air \r\n          conditioning and are full of tourists while buses have the windows \r\n          open and loud music blaring out of them. Buses rely on their speed \r\n          to for air conditioning while Taxis, with their load of two or \r\n          maybe 3 very pale tourists, actually have a working air conditioner. \r\nTaxis also cost ten to twenty times more.</p>\r\n        <p class=\"blog\"><em><strong>2)What are the qualifications \r\n          of a driver?</strong></em><br />\r\n          The driver must be young, \r\n          may have long dreadlocks, have supreme athletic abilities and \r\n          knowledge of the roads in order to dodge cars, people, and animals, \r\n          not to mention the ability to pass and driver on roads built for \r\n          one car only. He must also have a abiding love of loud reggae \r\nmusic.</p>\r\n        <p class=\"blog\"><em><strong>3)How many brakes \r\n          are there on a bus and which is used first?</strong></em><br />\r\n          You probably didn\'t \r\n          know this but there are two: one the driver uses his foot to apply \r\n          and the other he uses his hand. And of course the hand use of \r\n          the horn is the first \"brake\" that any self-respecting \r\ndriver used first.</p>\r\n        <p class=\"blog\"><em><strong>4)How fast do these \r\n          buses go?</strong></em><br />\r\n          Right exactly on the \r\n          edge of going to fast for the conditions of the road yet fast \r\n          enough to scare the living daylights out of you the first time \r\n          you ride one. There are occasions when the driver will slow down: \r\n          such as when he wants to check out a pretty woman or when the \r\n          he is communicating with some one with the horn. One sure way \r\n          that he will drive slow is when he has a pretty girl sitting next \r\nto him. He wants to prolong the experience as long as possible.</p>\r\n        <p class=\"blog\"><em><strong>5)What are the qualifications \r\n          of the conductor? (you know the guy who takes the money)</strong></em><br />\r\n          Vast mathematical skill \r\n          for sure but certainly the ability to make change and keep track \r\n          of who has paid while careening down the highway looking g for \r\n          more passengers for an already full bus. But the most important \r\n          qualifications is a very narrow behind. After all, the seat he \r\n          sits on while hanging out of the window in pursuit of filling \r\n          the bus, is often taken by someone, and he must merely jump in \r\na squeeze into what ever is left.</p>\r\n        <p class=\"blog\"><em><strong>6)Will \r\n          I be able to take my propane bottle to the filling station.</strong></em><br />\r\nNo problem mon!</p>\r\n        <p class=\"blog\"><em><strong>7)How loud will \r\n          the music be playing?</strong></em><br />\r\n          the rule of thumb for \r\n          the driver is to turn the music up until to where it just distorts \r\n          and then turn it back down just a bit. This will allow to your \r\n          enjoyment of some very good reggae music to to be bouncing around \r\nin your brain for a long time after you have gotten off the bus.</p>\r\n        <p class=\"blog\"><em><strong>8)do I pay when \r\n          I get on, or when I get off, or at some other time?</strong></em><br />\r\n          Not to worry. Pay any \r\n          time you are not holding of for dear life or when the conductor \r\n          (remember ,he is the one with the smallest butt) is not looking \r\n          out of the window at some backyard or for more passengers to squeeze \r\n          onto the bus. So that makes it probable that you will pay when \r\n          you get off. And don\'t worry about being over charged. It just \r\ndoesn\'t happen (unlike the Taxis -Ed).</p>\r\n        <p class=\"blog\"><strong><em>9)So how do I let \r\n          the driver know where or when I want to get off?</em></strong><br />\r\n          That\'s an easy one. Just rap on any metal part of the roof or \r\n          side often bus. But remember to knock precisely between the the \r\n          drumbeat of the reggae music or you will miss your drop.</p>\r\n        <p align=\"left\" class=\"blog\"><em><strong>10)And now for the \r\n          big question. How many people does a Grenadian bus hold?</strong></em><br />\r\n          Two More.</p>\r\n        ','http://www.caribbeancompass.com/','3','bus, caribean, grenada, taxi','2007-10-09 13:56:56'),(442,11,'Anse Chastanet',6,'Taken whilst touring St Lucia in a hire car, mostly underwater snorkeling in Anse Chastenet, just north of the pitons.<br />\r\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/lhT9yF_dcY8&rel=1\"></param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/lhT9yF_dcY8&rel=1\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"></embed></object><div>','','coralTree','fish,reef,coral,snorkel,anse, chastenet,underwater','2008-01-01 15:12:48'),(254,9,'Dreamtime',3,'<h3>DREAMTIME IV (Mañana, Mañana) </h3>\r\n<p>Arrived in Gran Canaria, courtesy of appalling airways. I got a very \r\n cheap flight, this proved the adage <i>\'you g<img src=\"content/pic/trip1/geko.jpg\" alt=\"Toy Lizarad anyone\" align=\"right\">et get you pay for\'</i> the airlines logic can\'t be faulted. The aeroplane \r\n was snow bound in France and wouldn\'t get in till 3:30 the original departure being 11:30. The plane arrived and at about 4:30 we  were informed that it didn\'t work (fuel pump apparently), however the air port cheerfully informed us that it was OK since the air line had a spare aeroplane on the tarmac anyway! This rivals \r\n conex south central customer service if they had a plane why  didn\'t they send us out in it at 11:30!\r\n<p> The pilot was kind of cool though he\'d been pulled  out of bed to fly us and commented sarcastically that it was good that the airport had only taken three and an half hours to move a small amount of baggage between the 2 planes!. To make up for this prod at authority he proudly announced on the decent to Las Palmas \r\n that \"we\'ve managed to make up a few minutes time in the flight\" 10 minutes saved, well that\'s great pity about the other 9 hours!.</p>\r\n <p>Well the first news on board Dreamtime was that the \r\n  workmen were coming Mañana, always with the Spanish it mañana. They \r\n  didn\'t show, so there me, Skana and Campbell sat and unpacked the \r\n  vegimite (and there was much rejoicing) and waited till Mañana. Mañana \r\n  and Mañana and Mañana as as good old willy, put it, with the armada \r\n  hanging around the Elizabethan period Shakespeare got it right-the \r\n  Spanish will attack .......Tomorrow. I consider this educational, \r\n  Spanish time is mealy practice for Caribbean time where the workmen \r\n  might come .... next week (yeah right). The immortal quote from the \r\n  engine repair man in St Lucia last time applies, on the subject of \r\n  Mañana he said \"no mon, we don\'t have anything that urgent\" \r\n  Skana and Campbell have been great and work proceeded apace allowing \r\n  for siestas. </p>\r\n <img src=\"content/pic/trip1/insidedt.jpg\" alt=\"Down bellow\" align=\"left\">\r\n <p>The trouble with siestas is that by \r\n  the time yachties get up its started and by the time its finished \r\n  Yachties are already drinking ...... so nothing gets done!.We \r\n  are now planning to leave Saturday, we have all the Don Simon \r\n  on board (cheap wine beloved of yachties) olive oil to get to \r\n  Australia and, thank god, ME. I am really happy to be back on \r\n  a pontoon where walking up to strangers and having chats/beers \r\n  is considered normal. The antithesis of the London under ground.<br>\r\n  7:00pm 3rd day out into the Atlantic, Dreamtime is Quick! So far \r\n  we\'ve managed at least 160Nm a day, probably 175 in the 24 hours \r\n  till noon, we\'re not sure as Campbell accidentally turned the \r\n  log off and reset it early this morning!</p>\r\n <p align=\"left\"> Log says we\'ve averaged 7.4Knots since then! On the \r\n  first day we managed 14.5Kn off the top of one wave estimating 17 \r\n  days for the crossing! against the 23 last time. Skanna and Campbell \r\n  ant to know what I\'m writing about them! They keep asking if its something \r\n  bad.....Yeah right they\'ve been great, not only rescuing me from the \r\n  desk of doom but making me really welcome in there home.</p>\r\n <p align=\"left\">We have seen nothing of interest in ages 1 Ship in the \r\n  distance this morning, and apparently they saw a plastic bottle floating \r\n  by early this evening! The excitement is killing me! When I get over \r\n  the Caribbean I will ask Sam if he knows the bottle. Have read three \r\n  and a half Harry Potter books already,OOPS soon I\'m going to have \r\n  to read the intelligent book that Mona lent me before I left. Just \r\n  made some BREAD see I\'m domesticated</p>\r\n <div class=\"blog\">\r\n		 <h3 align=\"center\">The Dreamtime Atlantic Points System for Ocean Passages.</h3>\r\n <ul>\r\n  <li>Dolphins - 5 points - they find you</li>\r\n  <li>Ships - 20 points - very rare (only one so far)</li>\r\n  <li>Rubbish - 10 points pretty common (your own dunny paper doesn\'t count)</li>\r\n  <li>UFO - 200 points (bonus of 400 for an abduction)</li>\r\n  <li>American Sub - 1000 points + money from Russians.</li>\r\n  <li>Russian Sub - 100,000,000 points, cover head with towel and build fall out shelter with heads door (money from \r\n   the Americans and Russians for fixing it)</li>\r\n  <li>birds - 7 points</li>\r\n  <li>flying fish - 10 points (20 if you get hit)</li>\r\n  <li>Barbados - 100 points (first seen)</li>\r\n  <li>Other island - 1000 points and kick the navigator</li>\r\n  <li>Mir Space Station - No points but please tell the Russians as they\'ve lost it again! We wouldn\'t want it to crash \r\n   land in Australia would we. </li>\r\n </ul>\r\n</div>\r\n<br />\r\n<div class=\"blog\">\r\n <h3>Dreamtime? Who the @#*_ is Dreamtime?</h3>\r\n <p>Dreamtime* IV is a lovely 37 ft boat owned by Campbell \r\n  and Skanna Kiwi and Ausie respectively. They were friends with \r\n  Melanjen on which I did the Kings Cup Regatta in Thailand (see \r\n  photo left). They were in London in about September where I totally \r\n  failed to go to the pub with them. However just as flamelights \r\n  were driving me nuts Skana sent me an email saying \"We\'re \r\n  stuck in Gran Canaria after damaging the boat\", after hearing \r\n  this I immediately replied with the words \"can I have a lift\" \r\n  to my surprise they said \"yes\" and here I am in the \r\n  middle of the Atlantic again!</p>\r\n <p>* Aboriginal word for \"Stoned\"</p>\r\n <p align=\"center\"><img src=\"content/pic/trip1/drmpipi.jpg\" alt=\"Dreamtime Anchored off Phi Phi\"><br>\r\n  Dreamtime at anchor off Phi Phi Island in Thailand </p>\r\n</div>\r\n <p>We finally arrived in St Lucia, not \r\n  Barbados, or Tobago, or anywhere else that was possible. It finally \r\n  took 18 days, shaving 4.5 of my last crossing. We did the rodney bay \r\n  round, Happy Hour in the Marina bar (2 rumpunches for the price of !) \r\n  followed by dinner in the lime, \"local meal Please\" as the cry goes. \r\n  Then into the shamrocks pub, where I proceeded to fall asleep. I particularly \r\n  recommend the bar in there-it comfy. Campbell may disagree as the following \r\n  night he fell off a bar stool there. He\'s still limping. The reason \r\n  he fell off can be attributed to a nice Englishman we met over dinner \r\n  at the lime. He proceeded to buy 3 Bottles of Moet Champagne which we \r\n  happily helped him to consume. The remainder of the night in Shamrocks remains a blur, I can remember Campbell falling off his stoo<img src=\"content/pic/trip1/dtat.jpg\" alt=\"Dreamtime at Sea\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" align=\"right\">l an latter \r\n  of the dock, there was a lot of shouting between us and a local salesman \r\n  on a boat if any one has the details please send a postcard to \"Tom\'s \r\n  Missing hours, care of BBC Children in need, London\"</p>\r\n <p align=\"left\">lEarly the next morning, I had arranged a sked on the \r\n  SSB with Sam on Ramprasad in Tobago, to my surprise I actually managed \r\n  to make the time and frequency, unfortunately my ability to complete \r\n  sentences was sadly lacking and communication, despite good radio propagation \r\n  was lousy. Arranged to meet Sam in Trinidad, but after a week in St \r\n  Lucia was forced to concede that there were no yachts heading south \r\n  at all and in the end had to get a aeroplane. .</p>\r\n <p align=\"left\"> The plane was expensive and late (yachts are nice \r\n  reliable things why can\'t aeroplanes manage it)Arrived in Port of \r\n  Spain to late for a bus so had to pay the outrageous sum of 60tt \r\n  to get a taxi the short distance to port of Spain, then a Maxi Taxi \r\n  (more like a Caribbean bus) to TTYA at Chaguaramas \r\n  for 4tt. Sam wasn\'t there he was still blissfully unaware of my \r\n  arrival. So slept on TTYA\'s bench for then next 2 nights after which \r\n  the management caught on and told me off. The next night a Kiwi \r\n  called Pete off \"wired for Sound\" let me crash on his Boat and the \r\n  following morning I Joined Sam and Rauni on Ramprasad (and there \r\n  was much rejoicing).</p>\r\n','','2','dreamtime, 4, VI, Gran, Canaria, St Lucia, ','2007-10-09 14:59:55'),(77,2,'I14 Clip',7,'<p>Here\'s a clip of me and Matt sailing what\'s now my International 14 off Brighton beach in very little wind. Right choise of boat for a flat calm.</p>\r\nI\'f you have trouble with the above clips don\'t worry Its quite normal if you\'re using window\'s crappy media player, get hold of <a href=\"http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/index.html\">mplayer</a> or <a href=\"http://mplayerc.sourceforge.net/download.html\">mplayer control</a> the\'ll take care of it. More info see my <a href=\"content.php?Cat=5&Res=108\">video troubles</a></p>;','http://www.brightonsc.no-ip.org','senta1','Movie, clip, senta, brighton, sailing, club, matt, tom, international, 14, i14','2004-12-31 14:20:33'),(79,3,'On the Availbility of Kites',3,'It Seems that Penultimate Interational 14 spinakers are hard to come by. A rather nice bloke sold me one last week, and indicated he\'s got the rest of nothern europe asking if he\'s got more. If your swis and want a kite your intouble apparently. Puts the price up unfortunatly.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nStill a man with an new(ish) kite is a man with a new(ish) kite. 237 Square Feet of marine power....I\'m going to die......','http://www.i14.org','','penultimate, i14, spinaker, kite, interational 14','2004-12-31 14:19:31'),(82,6,'Windspeed to Beaufort Converter',3,'<h3>Description</h3><br />\r\n<div class=\"code\">Bf_Convert ( float windspeed, int format)</div><br />\r\nThis is a PHP function to convert a wind speed in knots to a beaufort scale. Takes a speed in knots and returns either the description (e.g. \"Strong Breeze\"), the beaufort number, or both.<br />\r\n<br />\r\n<h3>Parameter List</h3>\r\n<br />\r\n    <div class=\"code\">speed</div><br />\r\n<br />\r\nthe wind speed you want converted to Beaufort in Knots (nautical Miles per Hour)<br />\r\n    <div class=\"code\">format</div><br />\r\n<br />\r\nan integer which tells the function what sort of out put you want:<br />\r\n<li>1 return the Beaufort Scale Force Number for the Wind Speed.<br />\r\n<li>2 retrun the Beaufort Scale Name for the Wind Speed (e.g. \"Strong Breeze\")<br />\r\n<li>3 return both, separtatd by a comma, (eg \"5, Strong breeze\")<br />\r\nReturn Values<br />\r\n<br />\r\nReturns either a number or a string of the Beaufort Scale eqivalent of the current wind speed.<br />\r\n<br />\r\n<h3>Example 1. Bf_convert() example</h3>\r\n<div class=\"code\">\r\n  <p><br />\r\n  &lt;?php</p>\r\n  <p>echo Bf_convert(23.1,2);</p>\r\n  <p>?&gt;</p>\r\n</div>\r\n<h3>The above will output:</h3>\r\n<br />\r\n<div class=\"code\">Strong Breeze</div><br />\r\n<br />\r\n<h3>CODE:</h3>\r\n<div class=\"code\">function Bf_Convert ($speed, $return) {<br>\r\nswitch ($speed) {<br>\r\ncase ($speed &lt; 1):<br>\r\n$bf=0; $desc = \'Calm\';<br>\r\nbreak;<br>\r\ncase ($speed &lt; 4):<br>\r\n$bf=1; $desc = \'Light Air\';<br>\r\nbreak;<br>\r\ncase ($speed &lt; 7):<br>\r\n$bf=2; $desc = \'Light Breeze\';<br>\r\nbreak;<br>\r\ncase ($speed &lt; 11):<br>\r\n$bf=3; $desc = \'Gentle Breeze\';<br>\r\nbreak; <br>\r\ncase ($speed &lt; 17):<br>\r\n$bf=4; $desc = \'Moderate Breeze\';<br>\r\nbreak;<br>\r\ncase ($speed &lt; 22):<br>\r\n$bf=5; $desc = \'Fresh Breeze\';<br>\r\nbreak; <br>\r\ncase ($speed &lt; 28):<br>\r\n$bf=6; $desc = \'Strong Breeze\';<br>\r\nbreak; <br>\r\ncase ($speed &lt; 34):<br>\r\n$bf=7; $desc = \'Near Gale\';<br>\r\nbreak; <br>\r\ncase ($speed &lt; 41):<br>\r\n$bf=8; $desc = \'Gale\';<br>\r\nbreak; <br>\r\ncase ($speed &lt; 48):<br>\r\n$bf=9; $desc = \'Strong Gale\';<br>\r\nbreak;<br>\r\ncase ($speed &lt; 56):<br>\r\n$bf=10; $desc = \'Storm\';<br>\r\nbreak; <br>\r\ncase ($speed &lt; 64):<br>\r\n$bf=11; $desc = \'Severe Storm\';<br>\r\nbreak; <br>\r\ncase ($speed &gt; 64):<br>\r\n$bf=12; $desc = \'Huricane\';<br>\r\nbreak; <br>\r\n};<br>\r\n//right decide what to output<br>\r\nswitch ($return) {<br>\r\ncase 1: $out = $bf;<br>\r\nbreak;<br>\r\ncase 2: $out = $desc;<br>\r\nbreak;<br>\r\ncase 3: $out = (&quot;$bf, $desc&quot;);<br>\r\nbreak;<br>\r\n}; <br>\r\nreturn(&quot;$out&quot;);<br>\r\n};</div>\r\n','','',NULL,'2005-01-18 20:33:07'),(83,3,'radius',3,'Been fiddling with radius.... can I go back to configuring sendmail blind fold?. That made sense. I have succeeded in making my temp mesh box look up on my radius server. Mind you I have no idea:<br />\r\n<br />\r\nWhat the hell a huntgroup is.<br />\r\nHow the hell you ban it from using dogs.<br />\r\nWhat a proxy is in the context of radius and whether I have / need one.<br />\r\nWhat an EAP is. Perhaps a type of antelope which the huntgroups go after?<br />\r\nWhat a NAS is and whether like the EAP its endangered by the huntgroup?<br />\r\nRealm what realm? I Fu****g hate dungeons and dragons!<br />\r\n<br />\r\nWhat I do know:<br />\r\nradclient on mesh box actually asks fishtank.oceanhippie.net stuff. Woot! (No, I don\'t have faintest idea what it\'s asking.)<br />\r\nThat fishtank hears the stuff.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nI also know:<br />\r\nthat the Internet is totally devoid a of a basic description of any of the above. What they do and why. (and also where and when)<br />\r\n<br />\r\nHowever there may be a chap involved somewhere....presumably a little fellow who sits in the processor heat sink and shouts \"Ra Ra Were Gonna Smash the Oiks\"*<br />\r\n<br />\r\n!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />\r\n<br />\r\nAny one got a chap / book / gnu / gnother gnu / huntgroup protester / bottle of radweld / elephant gun I could borrow?<br />\r\n<br />\r\nexits stage left to cobblers thumb pub......**<br />\r\n<br />\r\nTom<br />\r\n* for oiks read \"Net BSD fans\" throughout<br />\r\n** maybe stage right - I\'ve never been sure about that one.<br />','','',NULL,'2005-01-18 23:16:25'),(84,6,'Wind Feed Parser',3,'<p> This script is designed to read the xml wind feed from the <a href=\"http://piertopier.net\" target=_\"blank\">piertopier.net</a> wind sensor.\r\nCan be used to display the wind speed direction and strength of the last gust on any php based page.</p>\r\n<h3>USAGE</h3>\r\n<p>Needs no inputs, the address for the xml feeds at the top if it ever needs changing.<br>\r\nThe out put is in the form of three variables. $speed, $ direction and $gust. they are a numbers corresponding to the wind speed, wind direction and strength of he strongest gust received in the preceding 5 minutes. In knots and degrees.</p>\r\n\r\n<h3>CODE</h3>\r\n<div class=\"code\">\r\n<?php<br>\r\n            //\r\nPiertopier.net xml wind feed script<br>\r\n            //\r\nopens a connection for piertopier.net\'s xmlfeed, rips it<br>\r\nup and returns:<br>\r\n            //\r\n$speed as the current wind speed in knots, $direction is<br>\r\na bearing in degrees, $gust is the strenght of the last gust in knots.<br>\r\n// opens connection to pieritopier for current xml feed of wind speed.                                                       <br>\r\n$host = \'www.piertopier.net\';<br>\r\n$uri = \'weather.xml\';<br>\r\n            $fp\r\n= fsockopen($host, 80, $errno, $errstr, 20);<br>\r\n                        if\r\n(!$fp) {<br>\r\n                                    die(\"Network\r\nerror: $errstr ($errno)\");<br>\r\n                        }\r\nelse {<br>\r\n                                                $xml\r\n= \'\';<br>\r\n                                                fputs($fp, \"GET\r\n/$uri HTTP/1.0\\r\\nHost: $host\\r\\n\\r\\n\");<br>\r\n                                                while\r\n(!feof($fp)) {<br>\r\n                                                $xml\r\n.= fgets($fp, 128);<br>\r\n                                                                                                            }<br>\r\n                                                fclose\r\n($fp);<br>\r\n                                                }<br>\r\n// clears out unwanted sections from the XML feed.<br>\r\n$search = array (\"\'HTTP[^>]*?>.*?knots=\'si\", // Strip out everyting\r\nup to wind speed<br>\r\n                  \"\'mph[^>]*?>.*?knots=\'si\", // Strip out everything between windspeed\r\nand gust speed<br>\r\n                  \"\'mph[^>]*?>.*?degrees=\'si\", // Strip out every hting between\r\ngust speed and direction<br>\r\n                  \"\'</wind>[^>]*?>.*?rtList>\'si\", // strip out everyhting\r\nafter direction<br>\r\n                  \"\'/>\'i\"); // Strips out irritating left over /> that I can\'t\r\nfigure<br>\r\n$replace = array (\"\", //replace all the above with nothing!<br>\r\n                  \"\",<br>\r\n                  \"\",<br>\r\n                  \"\",<br>\r\n                  \"\",<br>\r\n                  \"\",<br>\r\n                  \"\",<br>\r\n                  \"\",<br>\r\n                 	\"\");<br>\r\n            $xml\r\n= preg_replace ($search, $replace, $xml);<br>\r\n// stip out the Quotation Marks<br>\r\n            $xml\r\n= ereg_replace(\'\"\', \"\", $xml);<br>\r\n// chops the xml feed up and stuffs it in an array<br>\r\n            $pieces\r\n= explode(\" \", $xml);<br>\r\n// gets the right cunks of the array and asigns them to variables for\r\ndisplay<br>\r\ncalled speed direction and gust <br>\r\n            $speed\r\n= $pieces[0];<br>\r\n            $direction\r\n= $pieces[2];<br>\r\n            $gust\r\n= $pieces[1];<br>\r\n</div>\r\n','http://www.brightonsc.no-ip.org/weather.php','',NULL,'2005-01-20 12:02:01'),(86,6,'PHP',5,'What this website writern in. It rocks! The hypertext pre-Processor (not that they were trying to fit an impressive name to an abreviation that originally meant \"Personal Home Page\"','http://www.php.net','1',NULL,'2005-01-20 15:55:27'),(87,6,'RRD tool',5,'Graph plotting tool','http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/','5',NULL,'2005-01-21 09:06:51'),(88,6,'DHCP Tools',5,'DHCP leases file parser by Derek Ditch','http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=106985','5',NULL,'2005-01-21 09:09:29'),(89,1,'piertopier Wiki',5,'Stuff about piertopier','http://wiki.piertopier.net','2',NULL,'2005-01-21 09:12:38'),(90,1,'piertopier clipings',5,'news off the net about piertopier by Dave','http://stack.dnsalias.net/~piertopier/','2',NULL,'2005-01-21 09:14:13'),(91,2,'Fun With Flash',3,'<p>Silly I know but its EDUCATIONAL! Well I\'m doing it at work.... must be educational.</p>\r\n<div align=\"center\"><OBJECT classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\"\r\n codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0\"\r\n WIDTH=\"750\" HEIGHT=\"550\" id=\"bt\" ALIGN=\"\">\r\n <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE=\"content/flash/bt.swf\"> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#000000> <EMBED src=\"content/flash/bt.swf\" quality=high bgcolor=#000000  WIDTH=\"100%\" HEIGHT=\"100%\" NAME=\"bt\" ALIGN=\"\"\r\n TYPE=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" PLUGINSPAGE=\"http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer\"></EMBED>\r\n</OBJECT></div>\r\n<p>Woot, this is the result of an afterneoon at work learning flash. Good fun stuff. I call it Matt C***s it up.</p>\r\n','','',NULL,'2005-01-26 18:35:57'),(93,2,'Chichester YC',5,'Chichester Yacht Club, great winter series!','http://www.cyc.co.uk/','3',NULL,'2005-02-04 17:56:53'),(99,6,'Shipping Forcast Parser',3,'<p>Parses the Shipping Forecast, and retrieves only a specific area. + optionally the header \"Issued by the Met Office at ****.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>WARNING NOT TO BE USED FOR NAVIGATION. this is a gimmick and no substitute for a Properly sourced forecast. it may expire if any of several servers expire. Use for interest only. Also actually using it on a public site may be illegal I can find no sign saying you may not republish the shipping Forecast, it used to be a public service that bitch maggie( small m please take offence) probably privatised it. Am still annoyed about the unavailability of Brighton Tide Harmonics for the same reason!</p>\r\n<h3>Description</h3>\r\n<p><div class=\"code\">get_forcast ( string sea area, int header, string format)</div></p>\r\n<p>This is a PHP function that loads the shipping forecast from http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov  retrieves the currently published forecast for the are supplied, with or with out the intro and issue time (Issued by the Met office at \"time\" \"date\"). In 3 formats HTML (just p and br tags), text (unix linefeeds) or as a string (no linefeeds).</P>\r\n<h3>Parameter List</h3>\r\n    <p><div class=\"code\">area</div></p>\r\n<p>the forecast area you interested in in my case I put in \"Dover\". case insensitive (I hope).</p>\r\n    <p><div class=\"code\">header</div></p>\r\n<p>Do you want the intro I strongly suggest you do, so you can tell its a current forecast that\'s being displayed. 0 (zero) for intro 1 for an intro</p>\r\n<p><div class=\"code\">format</div></p>\r\n<p>Format, stick in one of the following:\r\n<li>\"text\" nice dull text with unix line feed character (slash n).<br />\r\n<li>\"html\" a paragraph of HTML with HTML linefeed markers (br)<br />\r\n<li>\"string\" Dull boring no line feed text for further processing<br />\r\nReturn Values</p>\r\n<p>Returns nice paragraph or string similar to:<br>\r\nTHE SHIPPING FORECAST ISSUED BY THE MET OFFICE AT 1725 ON SATURDAY 05 FEBRUARY 2005<br />\r\nDOVER WIGHT PORTLAND SOUTH BACKING SOUTHEAST 3 OR 4, OCCASIONALLY 5. RAIN AT TIMES. MODERATE OR GOOD</P>\r\n<h3>Example 1. get_forcast() example</h3>\r\n<p><div class=\"code\">\r\n  echo get_forcast(Malin, 1, html);</p>\r\n </div>\r\n<h3>The above will output:</h3>\r\n<p><div class=\"code\">THE SHIPPING FORECAST ISSUED BY THE MET OFFICE AT 1725 ON SATURDAY 05 FEBRUARY 2005</p>\r\nSHANNON ROCKALL MALIN HEBRIDES NORTH 6 TO GALE 8, VEERING NORTHEAST 4 OR 5, OCCASIONALLY 6, BUT SOUTH OR SOUTHEAST IN NORTH ROCKALL AND HEBRIDES. SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD</p>\r\n</div>\r\n<h3>CODE:</h3>\r\n<div class=\"code\"><p>function get_forcast($area, $header, $format) {<br>\r\n//$header=0; $format=\"text\"; $area=\"dover\";<br>\r\n// opens connection to get the shipping forecast&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $host = \'iwin.nws.noaa.gov\';<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $uri = \'/pub/data/text/FPUK71/EGRR.TXT\';<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $fp = fsockopen($host, 80, $errno, $errstr, 20);<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;if (!$fp) {<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;die(\"Network error: $errstr ($errno)\");<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; } else {<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $all = \'\';<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; fputs($fp, \"GET /$uri HTTP/1.0\\r\\nHost: $host\\r\\n\\r\\n\");<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; while (!feof($fp)) {<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$all .= fgets($fp, 128);<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; fclose ($fp);<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<br>\r\n<br>\r\n$bits=explode(\"\\n\\r\", $all);<br>\r\nforeach($bits as $chunk)<br>\r\n{<br>\r\nif (preg_match(\"/$area/i\", $chunk)) {<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$out=$chunk;<br>\r\n}<br>\r\nif (preg_match(\"/ISSUED BY THE MET OFFICE/i\", $chunk)) {<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$head=$chunk;<br>\r\n}<br>\r\n}<br>\r\n//clear up the header<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $head=preg_replace(\"/^FPUK71.*/m\", \"\", $head);<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $head=preg_replace(\"/AND NOW /i\", \"\", $head);<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $head=preg_replace(\"/, ON BEHALF OF\\s*THE MARITIME AND COASTGUARD AGENCY,/si\", \"\", $head);<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $head=preg_replace(\"/\\s/\", \" \", $head);<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $head=preg_replace(\"/&nbsp;&nbsp;/\", \" \", $head);<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $head=preg_replace(\"/&nbsp;&nbsp;/\", \" \", $head);<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $head=trim($head);<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $head=($head.\"\\n\");<br>\r\n//clear up the body<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $out=preg_replace(\"/\\s/\", \" \", $out);<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $out=preg_replace(\"/&nbsp;&nbsp;/\", \" \", $out);<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $out=preg_replace(\"/&nbsp;&nbsp;/\", \" \", $out);<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $out=trim($out);<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $out=($out.\"\\n\");<br>\r\n//decide whether the title\'s needed<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if(!$header==\"0\") $out=($head.$out);<br>\r\n//do the formating<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; switch($format){<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;case($format==\"html\"): <br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; //formats output with <br> fo direct HTML Display.<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $return=nl2br($out);<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;break;<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;case($format==\"string\"):<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; //formats the output as one linefeedless string.<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $return=$preg_replace(\"/\\s/s\", \"\", $out);<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$return=preg_replace(\"/&nbsp;&nbsp;/\", \" \", $return);<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$return=preg_replace(\"/&nbsp;&nbsp;/\", \" \", $return);<br>\r\n<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;break;<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;case($format==\"text\"):<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; //formats the output as is with line feeds.<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $return=$out;<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;break;<br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<br>\r\n//function completer output:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; return(\"$return\"); <br>\r\n<br>\r\n}</p></div>','http://www.met-office.gov.uk/datafiles/offshore.html','',NULL,'2005-02-05 21:40:14'),(260,9,'Cricket',3,'<h3>Cricket, Rum and Reggae<img src=\"content/pic/trip1/dunney.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"331\" alt=\"Dunney or thunder box\" align=\"left\"></h3>\r\n <p>After an uneventful journey north from \r\n  Trinidad taking in Grenada, where I got lost on a bus, and Cariaccou \r\n  where we didn\'t do anything interesting at all. Well it was interesting.. \r\n  ....but only for us with the exception of this dunney, witch threatened \r\n  to make it too interesting. On we went to the Tobago Cays. The Tobago \r\n  Cays are a bunch of small Islands no more than 200 yards long, sheltered \r\n  be hind a horse shoe shaped reef of coral. There are plenty of other \r\n  bits of coral reef around a bout as well. You approach the anchorage \r\n  through a passage between 3 of the islands, then anchor on their \r\n  windward side. Anchored here there\'s nothing between you and the \r\n  Africa but a coral reef 30cm below the water. The water behind the \r\n  reef is shallow and clear, the reef alive with coral and fish. \r\n  is the order of the day. Its funny watching the charter boaters \r\n  snorkelling in shorts and T-shirts to avoid \r\n  getting their backs sunburnt. The snorkelling</a> \r\n  here is some of the best in the Caribbean, I have had better in \r\n  the Pacific but not often. After chasing parrot fish, while Sam and Rauni where snoozing I \r\n  went to the \"occupied\" island. Its \"Occupied\" \r\n  by Larson, who runs a sort of bar, and some of the local boat boys* \r\n  who camp out there in tents.</p>\r\n <p> The bar is \r\n  called \"the worlds end bar\" or similar, its more of a pile \r\n  of bushes with a sail tied across the top and a bunch of eskimos (cool \r\n  boxes). The beer is expensive, but the company is good. </p>\r\n <p align=\"center\"><img src=\"content/pic/trip1/cricket.jpg\" alt=\"West Indies Cricket Match, Ganja stopped play\" width=\"500\" height=\"249\"></p>\r\n <p>The afternoon soon became a West Indies international \r\n  cricket match, a bunch of locals me a French Candian and a Swis bloke. \r\n  The locals know their cricket, I remember a bit, the Swiss bloke was \r\n  useless. The wicket didn\'t make it any easier, early on it was clear \r\n  this wasn\'t lords. The stumps were a three sticks, the bat a naff peace \r\n  of rough wood. The pitch was a bit of hard beach between 5 palm trees, \r\n  except for the bowlers end witch was soft sand with a rock to mark the \r\n  crease. Bowling was difficult if you planted your feet then they sank \r\n  into the sand! Batting wasn\'t too bad, the ball bounced ok and in vaguely \r\n  the right direction, the fielders tended to be slips waiting to catch \r\n  the outside edge. </p>\r\n <p>Any stroke played back towards the bowler tended \r\n  not to get there - too many trees. My bowling has always been bad. \r\n  Doing it in quick sand made it appalling. My batting improved, the \r\n  final innings included 3 balls in the sea and several other respectable \r\n  slogs, I earned the highest praise available in the Caribbean \"D \r\n  Englishman can bat\" this was some what dampened by the fact \r\n  that the French Canadian, acting more like a base ball pitcher, \r\n  bowled all 5 remaining players out in about 10 balls. Finally as \r\n  the sun was setting , ganja stopped play (you don\'t get that at \r\n  Lords either) and we crawled back under the bushes to the bar for \r\n  beer and a smoke. The reggae and Soca was pumping from the sterio, \r\n  me and Larson singing along, of course I don\'t know all the tunes \r\n  but even so the charter holiday types were sutilble confused be \r\n  me singing \"Just when I thought you were d right man, true \r\n  love and treat me like no one else can, you wisperin me ear wrong \r\n  name, (Kim), Who d hell is Kim?, what foolishness you talking, you\'d \r\n  better check your self go out and check your health.... etc.\"**We \r\n  proceeded north by passing the Grenadines St Vincent and St Lucia, \r\n  arriving in St Pierre in northern Martinique. Martinique like many \r\n  other Islands has several Rum distilleries, Rum is a wonderful and \r\n  environmental drink</p>\r\n<img src=\"content/pic/trip1/rasta.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"386\" alt=\"Larson, with lizzard and \"Ciggarette\"\" align=\"right\">\r\n <p>. Its environmental because, you grow the cane, putt it \r\n  through a masher to grind it up, sieve it and put all the waste from \r\n  the sieving in the furnace that powers the steam engine which heats \r\n  the distillers and powers the masher the fine sugar is mixed with water \r\n  an the partials separated out. The sludge is mixed with the ash from \r\n  the furnace and used as fertilizer for the sugar cane fields....... \r\n  neat huh? Holstein Piss (pills)advertising claimed. \"All the sugar \r\n  turns to alcohol\" well in the Caribbean this is true, sugar production \r\n  is no longer economic on the scale of the West Indies islands. Rum is \r\n  very economical. All sugar is now turned to Rum, good thing too.</p>\r\n <hr>\r\n		<p>\r\n			* -boat boy a combination of a water \r\n  taxi, tour guide, fruit salesman, odd job man, line handler, con artist, \r\n  drug dealer, fisherman, beggar and general pain in the arse.<br>\r\n  ** - T.C. \"Kim\" contender for the Soca monarch 2001 in Trinidad, \r\n  Shadow won with \"Lookin for Horn***\"<br>\r\n  *** - Horn doesn\'t meen what you think it means trini/West Indian for \r\n  takingsomeones woman. or if it happens to youu beeing \"Horned\"</p>\r\n ','','','cricket, ganga, reggae, tobago, cays, cariaco','2007-10-09 20:01:15'),(106,3,'Lock to Gateway',3,'The lock to gateway button in Wiana, does indead lock to gateway. Even when the gateway dies. I assumes it was a more serious version of \"prefer Gateway\", but no suisidal as it may seem it LOCKS, STOCKs and both smokin\' barrels to the gateway you specify.<br />\r\nUse with extreme caution.<br />\r\nHowever the prefer gatway function seems to work nicely!','http://www.piertopier.net','','meshap, lock, gateway, wiana, locustworld','2005-02-14 15:45:25'),(102,2,'Skiff Light Harness Review',3,'<p>Until recently I\'ve been a Cat sailor with a strappy trapeze harness. The straps on both my Crewsaver and Magic Marine harnesses catch all over the place on the I14, so I got new one. The Magic Marine Skiff light claims to be for skiff type sailors, unlike most nappy harnesses its got adjustment straps, but unlike other nappies they\'re hidden under velcro side panels.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><img src=\"content/pic/skifflight.png\" alt=\"Photo of harness\" align=\"right\">Firstly the velcro side panels do actually work. You don\'t get caught on stuff. My crew nearly had us in several times catching the trapeze elastic etc. He was wearing my old Magic Marine spreader bar and strap harness. This old harness is particularly bad as it has huge plastic buckles on the side with the release tab facing forward. I\'ve seen cleats that are less effective than these at grabbing rope. I used to wear it with one of those magic marine silver lycra over the top vests. Which are great. The skiff light was considerably better than the other one and the over smock combination. Though the smock was OK, its nothing like as good at not snagging as it rides up at the back some times.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Comfort. Well I\'m 6\'4. for those metric people out there that\'s bloody tall. I\'m also skinny. Used to be 11.5 Stone (>80Kg) nowadays I\'m more like 14 stone. Still skinny though. My Previous Harness of about 18 months age was a MEDIUM. The problem I have is a medium arse and long, long body. To get around this I added strap to the shoulders. My 6\'2 house mate has longer legs than me. So I\'m weird. My harness before that was a Crewsaver EXTRA LARGE. very comfortable on the shoulders but room for 2 in the bum. Now the new Skiff Light, a large (Magic Marine have a waist size chart which is a good thing). Well you get pressure around the waist. Its a nappy par for the course. but to be honest I didn\'t even notice it when on the water. Also the load on the shoulders appears reduced. I suggest the tight fitting around the waist transfers more load into you bum and less to the shoulders... that\'s a guess either that or it didn\'t need to be as tight on the shoulder straps. In its favour it didn\'t ride up me bum like every strappy job does. I always use to end up with the thigh straps in my groin and rubbing. Because of the flexy back you don\'t even notice it on land (accept the strange places you wedding tackle ends up in).</p>\r\n\r\n<li>Features. Shoulder strap connector. when shoulders a loose it doesn\'t fall off shoulders like dodgy bra strap V .good idea!</li>\r\n<li>velcro covers for straps stop it catching on things. Works!</li>\r\n<li>Very Light weight, yep hardly notice it</li>\r\n\r\n<p>Verdict actually MORE comfortable than a spreader bar harness. But that\'s probably my weird bod. Definitely good for the tall and thin. So far I\'ve only worn it over a Dry suit, so we\'ll see when the wetsuit bit comes along. You don\'t even notice your wearing it - which could be a problem one day I wont be wearing it and in the drink we\'ll go (again).</p>\r\n','','','skiff, lite, light, harness, magic, marine, trapeze','2005-02-07 17:29:53'),(107,2,'Choosing a Bouyancy Aid',3,'<p>A life jackets just a life jacket, it not expected to be comfortable, practical or attractive. However the reason we wear buoyancy aids is precisely because life jackets are like this. That\'s not a good reason to just grab the first or cheapest buoyancy aid that comes along.</p>\r\n\r\n<h3>Why a Buoyancy aid</h3>\r\n<p>Well a life jacket usually has a huge foam block in front of you, this is supposed it make you float face up if your unconscious. However it makes it almost impossible to do anything when your wearing it. Also in a life jacket its very difficult to swim and completely impossible to get out from under a turtled dinghy or similar. On balance they\'re a hazard to dinghy sailors in most situations.</p>\r\n<h3>Critical Stuff</h3>\r\n<p><img src=\"content/pic/bouyancy_not_aid.jpg\" alt=\"badly fitting bouyancy aid\" align=\"right\">Its absolutely critical that your buoyancy aid fits. If it doesn\'t its dangerous. Its also very irritating. When I say fit I mean when you jump in the water it should stay in the same place as when you put it on. It should not be hooked under your arm pits. If it is you can\'t see properly or swim. So if you\'ve got the above problem then you should sort it out or buy an new buoyancy aid (swap it with someone if better fit can be achieved). Don\'t have it too tight to achieve the above effect. Ideally the buoyancy aid should catch under your rib cage. Note the picture, the grinning blokes buoyancy aid is held on by his chin, I\'ve seen far worse than this, sometimes up to your nose.</p>\r\n\r\n<h3>Styles</h3>\r\n<p>Their are 2 basic styles of buoyancy aid. The older waistcoat style and the over the head style. Both have variants but can be identified easily the waistcoat opens at the front, the over the head either doesn\'t open at all or at the side.<br />\r\nChoosing between the designs I\'ll deal with below, however I would caution you against the halfway house buoyancy/life jacket. a variation of the waistcoat design they have a large foam collar. Presumably to help keep your head above water, don\'t recon they work just get in the way.</p>\r\n<h3>Choosing your buoyancy Aid</h3>\r\n<p>Well things to think about. Are you going to trapeze? are you sailing a nice simple boat or a high performance string infested nightmare? Are you going to end up in the drink a lot or little?</p>\r\n<p>Points to remember.<br />\r\n<ul><br />\r\n<li>Trapezing is made <b>Much</b> easier by having a short buoyancy aid (not down to you waist)</li>\r\n<li>Lots of straps catch on things, rigging trapeze elastic etc. While on wayfarers or Hobie 16\'s this doesn\'t matter as you have a week to tack and extricate yourself, if you turn up covered in buckles on my 14 you\'ll be in the drink before you can say ARRRRGHHHH.</li>\r\n<li>Waistcoats are easier to put on, over the head job are better when actually on.</li>\r\n<li> under thirties and high performance sailors nearly always have over the head jobs. Over 40\'s the Waistcoat.\r\n<li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3>Choosing</h3>\r\n<p>Personally I prefer the over the head job, most younger people do. They can be a bit of a git to put on, especially the ones without the side zip. Mines hard to get on over my rear zip dry suit. However this is worth it for the convenience on the water. The solid bits are front and back the flexy bits are on the side were the edge of the ribcage give\'s \'em something to catch on. The adjustments and buckles are on the sides under the arms wear they don\'t catch on things.<br />\r\nThe waistcoats are frequently too long getting in the way of the trapeze harness, the buckles on the front catch on the gunnels and dagger boards when your climbing in or on stuff.<br />\r\nIf your pottering about in a force 1 with your kids in a wayfarer, the a waistcoats OK, your never likely to need it anyway. Otherwise the inconvenient of putting the over the head on is easily worth it.</p>\r\n','','','','2005-02-15 09:15:58'),(263,9,'Antigua',3,'     <h3>A Rum Doo</h3>\r\n    <p> <i>Show me the way to th next whiskey bar, if we don\'t find the next whiskey \r\n     bar I tell you we must die!</i> - The Doors.</p>\r\n		 <p> After Antigua,and the arrival \r\n       of Matt, we went to have a look at Barbuda, Antigua\'s sister island. \r\n       It has very few in habitants and fewer tourits. All centered at 2 resorts \r\n       on the south end on the island. Cigarretts at $7.50US a packet ... No \r\n       way. One resort was closed and the other almost empty. Lunch at the \r\n       one that excepts yachties starts at $80Us dinner from $100. The beach \r\n       to the north extends some 11Miles with nothing on it but my foot prints. \r\n       Nice....And cheap, shopping involves a long dinghy ride ashore and then \r\n       carrying th dinghy over the beach into the laggon behond, then 2 more \r\n       miles across the lagoon to Codrington, the capital of the island (and \r\n       only settlement). A taxi driver then offered us a tour to the highlands \r\n       (altitude about 200ft). Nice. After several days in the area around \r\n       Barbuda we returned to Antigua, took on water at St Johns, and sailed \r\n       around to Falmouth harbour, just intime to recieve some free rum. Next \r\n       day we went back round to english harbour, then to another free rum \r\n       party ......... And their was much rejoicing Antigua Race week is about \r\n       to start and they keep giving out free rum. This causes people to put \r\n       their foot in their mouth alarmingly often. Last night from 5 till seven \r\n       it was free rum and mixers on a beach 100yards from the boat. OUCH. \r\n       I found Sam asleep (paralytic) against a wall, and Rauni who gone looking \r\n       for him lying on a bench with 2 concerned Americans poring ice over \r\n       her face, doesn\'t seem to work on Finns, I guess there used to snow. \r\n       They were also giving out free Mount gay rum hats. The allocation system \r\n       was bizarre. Step one shout you boat name (or in my case someone else\'s \r\n       boats name Sam had used ramprasad\'s) the bloke then wrote it down. Then \r\n       5 minutes latter shout the name you just gave him (Dreamtime) and he \r\n       crosses it off the list he just made and gives you tickets for 2 free \r\n       hats. Then you queue for you hats. You can only get one hat so you must \r\n       give one ticket to someone else. The list is not checked against a list \r\n       of boats or harbour lists, and the whole process takes about half an \r\n       hour (so you need to make sure someone is going and getting more free \r\n       rum while your waiting. Why and how they came up with this system I \r\n       can\'t even imagine, if you taken the boxes of hats and thrown them into \r\n       the crowd the results would be the same and you\'d get some good old \r\n       fashioned roiting - not enough roiting in the wold today, VIVA LA REVOLUTION....and \r\n       nab me a VCR while your at it. Any way, Dreamtime got 2 Mount gay hats \r\n       Thank you very much Campbell and Skans for taking your boats name in \r\n       vain. I would gladly give you a hat but as well as the hat giving there \r\n       was a lot of hat stealing and hat losing. Mine was being worn over my \r\n       big ausie hat, and at some point in the sacred \"carrying of the skipper \r\nback to the boat \" ritual some bastard nicked it.</p>\r\n    <div class=\"blog\">\r\n		<p> The hat statistics:\r\n    <ul>\r\n     <li> Total \r\n      Crew 4 </li>\r\n     <li> Total \r\n      hats taken ashore 3</li>\r\n     <li> Additional \r\n      hats gained ashore 4 </li>\r\n     <li> Total \r\n      hats returned to the boat 3 </li>\r\n     <li> Number \r\n      of original hats returning to the boat 1 (mine) </li>\r\n     <li> Total \r\n      new hats lost 2 </li>\r\n     <li> Total \r\n      old hats recovered lying on the ground the next morning 1 </li>\r\n     <li> Total \r\n      old hats recovered from the bin man\'s head next morning 1 </li>\r\n     <li> Over \r\n      all hat total 5 </li>\r\n     <li> Total \r\n      number of crew capable of caring 0 </li>\r\n     <li> Total \r\n      number of crew capable of finding their back side with both hands \r\n      0 </li>\r\n     <li> Total \r\n      crew who fell in the water 1 </li>\r\n     <li> Total \r\n      weight of sand transferred from the beach to the boat and dinghy \r\n      4,578,234 Tons</li>\r\n    </ul>\r\n		</div>\r\n    <p>Oh \r\n     well. Antigua is a rip off, thankfully Matt is onboard, the friend who\'s \r\n     cat I sail in England. He and his a credit card and bought us all breakfast. \r\n     Last night he also did a kind of hand stand flip over a wall, daintily \r\n     kicking the American man I borrowed to help carry Sams beer out of his \r\n     hand. Then landed slap on his bum! Soon afterwards in the dinghy I managed \r\n     to ram the same yacht twice in the dinghy. Oops. Stupid place to put \r\n     a yacht. After a night of serious debauchery one must be philosophical. \r\n     How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Well assuming angels \r\n     exist in the first place it still seems a stupid question. I find it \r\n     hard to imagine anyway. Angels in wings on fluffy clouds listening to \r\n     celestial harmonies I can imagine, but getting down and boggieing to \r\n     Pete Tongs Essential Ibiza anthems I think not. A much more use full \r\n     question is how many demons in Dr Martin\'s best steel toecaped boots \r\n     can stomp in an oceanhippies brain. This new, better, philosophical \r\n     question has an answer \"TOO B&amp;%*$Y MANY\" as for Schr&ouml;dinger\'s cat, if it was me I wouldn\'t \r\n     open the box at all, both the possible outcomes are awful. Either you\'ve \r\n     got a dead cat, which is smelly and no use. Or you\'ve got a very pissed \r\n     off moggie which isn\'t my cup of tea either. Better still leave the \r\n     cat out of the box in the first place.</p>\r\n    ','http://www.sailingweek.com/','','antigua, moun, gay, rum, more, sheer, pin','2007-10-09 20:50:53'),(262,9,'Mangroves',3,' <h1>Mangrove Swamp.</h1>\r\n <h3> Dominica, the Nature Isalnd.</h3>\r\n <p> <img src=\"content/pic/trip1/Rainforrest.jpg\" width=\"252\" height=\"378\" align=\"left\">A \r\n          mangrove is a type of tree that survives in shallow water, brackish \r\n          or salty, usually bordering the sea or tidal rivers in the tropics. \r\n          I have seen many of these the most in detail being Isla Margarita in Venezuela and the Caroni \r\n          swamp in Trinidad. The one in Isla Margarita was big but as the caroni \r\n          is huge, many square miles. These swamps often have narrow water ways \r\n          you can take a shallow boat through. Such tours are great, away from \r\n          touristy place you can take the dinghy, but remember to take a couple \r\n          of spare shear pins (the sacrificial pin that breaks [hopefully] when \r\n          you run your prop into something but before the prop breaks). Also take \r\n          a compass a torch and the same amount of provisions as Dr Livingstone, \r\n          you could get lost and you won\'t come back no more no more no more...... \r\n          One bit of Mangrove swamp looks pretty much like another, shallow water \r\n          with the taprooted mangroves growing out of them. Also home to snakes \r\n          crabs Mussels, and loads of birds very few land animals. Some of the \r\n          mangroves sweat the salt out through their leaves, leaving a white powdering \r\n          of salt all over them. I would love to sneak in with a JCB and transport \r\n          one of these, complete with snakes, into Alan Titchmarsh\'s back garden, \r\n          that\'d give the bugger a shock. A slightly different experience in the \r\n          Indian River in Dominica, which is a swamp but with out the mangrove, \r\n          we took a trip up there spotting all the normal swamp wildlife, crabs, \r\n          fish, blue herons. One of the herons had build its nest on a branch \r\n          right in the middle of the river. The 2 chicks clamouring and a parent \r\n          sitting a few branches away, looking snooty. This was a mere 2 feet \r\n          above our head. Our boat boy Lawrence of Arabia, no relation, defiantly \r\n          no relation. This man was a caribean boat boy, quite a good one. He \r\n          also said \"We might see green iguanas, but their difficult to spot, \r\n          their the same colour as the trees.... you never see an iguana twice. \r\n          If we see \'im we put IM in a pressure cooker: tastes like chicken\" Boat \r\n          boys are irascible local entrepreneurs, the term \"Boy\" is a hangover \r\n          from subservient colonial times, the term \"boat\" entirely deceptive. \r\n          The \"boats\" they use range from colourfully labelled workboats with \r\n          outboards and logos like \"Respect Eric Spaghetti\" on the side, through \r\n          rowing boats, canoes, to 20 year old surf boards the plastic peeling \r\n          and the rotten foam core exposed propelled by a stick or half a broken \r\n          dinghy paddle. All will offer you services including: tying your boat \r\n          to trees or whatever, selling veg., bread or beer being a water taxi, \r\n          a fisherman, drug dealer, con artist etc., all boat boys can organize \r\n          tours \"with my brother who has a taxi\" or sometimes cousins. They sometimes \r\n          row miles out in search of business, then expecting you to tow them \r\n          into the harbour. We found one a couple of miles off St Vincent wallowing \r\n          in a small boat in Atlantic swells, bailing like mad, hopping to do \r\n          business with us.... No chance, I hope he managed to row back again! \r\n          Yesterday revenge was sweet, a boat boy came flying past and about 20 \r\n          yards away his out board fell off, sinking in about 7 meters of water, \r\n          he with help from a nearby charter yacht managed to find it and get \r\n          a rope down, but could\'nt tie the knot. Sam managed and then towed him \r\n          back to shore, should have charged him at least $10EC the going rate \r\n          for tying a rope round a palm tree. Also seen around the tropics is \r\n          Rain Forest, its serious stuff, vegetation in the Caribbean and the \r\n          tropics grows voraciously where ever there\'s enough water. The volcanic \r\n          soil is evidently fertile, the sun in like an oven and in the case of \r\n          the larger islands rainfall plentiful, mostly up in the hills. Dominica\'s \r\n          hills rise to 4500 feet, on an island maybe 30 miles long and 10 wide. \r\n          This back bone picks up rain daily as hot wet air is forced up and over \r\n          the cooler mountains. This is all rain forest, huge trees soaring 100feet, \r\n          trees covered in creepers you can swing on Tarzan didn\'t hit a tree, \r\n          I did. The bark from the tree in question is supposed to do the same \r\n          job as viagra. In Antigua I finally spotted a definite turtle, 2 from \r\n          the deck and one whilst snorkelling over the 1905 wreck of 3 posted \r\n          schooner. </p>','','','Dominica, Magrove, swamp, indian, river, portsmouth','2007-10-09 20:40:30'),(109,3,'CSS Revelation',3,'<p>I think I\'ve finally cracked css. Many thanks (in abesntia) to Steve Whitbread ex of the IT dept at College who\'s CSS I picked to pieces for inspiration. <a href=\"http://www.varndean.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">See here\"</a>. The key to getting around the box model problem of Firefox / Impotent explorer, is to use the cascading concept of style sheets. Getting this site to render in all browsers was a matter of making the 100% before the 2 side columns appear. Stoping the margins in and out box model problem made by microsoft from comming out different.</p><br />\r\n<p>This site should now look (pretty much) the same in all browsers. I recon it looks best in Opera. Mind you Opera\'s the best browser any how. Internet explore looks worst. Mind you its an old verson, I don\'t use it so it seemed silly to waste time down loading the patches. They don\'t fix half the holes anyway</p> ','','','CSS, Opera, Iexplore, Firefox','2005-02-18 16:52:13'),(110,3,'Mobile advertising Hording',3,'<img src=\"content/pic/p2p1472.jpg\" alt=\"My boat with Piertopier logos on Main Sail\" align=\"right\">After driving the local Sign Writers Nuts, I how have a nice new Advert on my boat. The process was quite simple, thought putting them on\'s a bit of skill.\nAlex from Moving Edge commented that with my sail skills said I should have stuck them on the bottom since thats the bit that\'s visible most of the time. Cheaky.\n\"piertopier.net - falls over when it comes into contact with salt water.\"\n\n','http://www.piertopier.net',NULL,'piertopier.net, WiFi, i14, BSC, Brighton, Sailing, Club','2005-04-09 19:28:49'),(111,3,'Mobile Advertertising Hording',3,'<img src=\"content/pic/p2p1472.jpg\" alt=\"My boat with Piertopier logos on Main Sail\" align=\"right\">After driving the local Sign Writers Nuts, I how have a nice new Advert on my boat. The process was quite simple, thought putting them on\'s a bit of skill.<br />\r\nAlex from Moving Edge commented that with my sail skills said I should have stuck them on the bottom since thats the bit that\'s visible most of the time. Cheaky.<br />\r\n\"piertopier.net - falls over when it comes into contact with salt water.\"<br />\r\n<br />\r\n','http://www.piertopier.net','','','2005-04-09 19:30:21'),(112,3,'Righting Moment',3,'<div align=\"center\"><img src=\"content/pic/Righting.gif\" alt=\"animation of me righting my I14\"><br><br />\r\nHow to right a capsized international 14.<br />\r\nCan\'t belive I wasted half an hour animating that.</div>','http://www.i14.org','','Capsize, righting, moment, upright sea, drink, water, I14','2005-04-12 21:06:12'),(113,2,'Senta',6,'Pictures of me sailing my own boat, International 14 number 1269.<br>\r\nThere\'s more of thee availbe on flickr here:<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/27484778@N00/sets/657813/\" targe=\"_blank\"> International 14 Gallery</a> Its an old boat, what known as a \"Penny\" (Penultimate I14) the preveious generation of boats. This is a \"howlett 1\", built by whats now carbo spars, in 1989 to an Ian Howlett design. Its all carbon, bar the rig. Goes like a train, and capsizes a lot.','','14Far','honking, international 14, Brighton, Sailig, club, boat, yacht','2005-04-13 16:22:35'),(114,2,'New Kite',2,'This is my new spinnaker. Its big. This is me and Dave twin Wiring in a force very little.','14Far','113',NULL,'2005-04-13 16:30:09'),(115,2,'Manovering',2,'This was taken near the beach you can tell by the rudder thats half up. And the fact that the main sheets tangle around the toe staps.','14N','113',NULL,'2005-04-13 16:31:19'),(116,2,'Beach Landing',2,'Landing on Gravel in the surf with a carbon-foam sandwich baot, with daggerbaord, cassette rudder and no stability is a nightmare.','Beach','113',NULL,'2005-04-13 16:32:25'),(117,2,'Upside Down',2,'Unstable, buisy trying to undo the kicker completly for landing gust his it we go.','Cap','113',NULL,'2005-04-13 16:43:49'),(118,3,'You are what you eat',3,'This book is a joke right.....? Well it made us laugh. The book cost a fortune, and has a look and feel of \"spotty dog goes to the beach\". Do not buy this book. Its bollacks. Oh and don\'t take health advice off someone as sickly looking as the bint who wrote this. Big text obviously costs more.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nThe back cover has a nice picture of the author. Its a nice picture because its been photo shopped. If you go back a few pages there\'s a sallow sunken eyed creature who looks one step from death. Too much bloody seaweed I recon.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nThe 20 questions health quiz, I scored 3. I do have a fairly poor diet. Its not dread full, I have veg every day, don\'t eat sweets or fizzy drinks - I do eat too much Pizza. Mind you when you lose a point for for not eating seaweed every week and for drinking tap water not bottled stuff. I was bound too lose. According to this woman I\'m going to be dead by the time you read this.<br>\r\nI have nice hard calcium rich water at home. Why should I drink worse water contaminated with chemicals that leach out of plastic bottles? Other points were dropped by not blending up raw vegetables and drinking the juice. The humble opinion of Anne the Biology Tech, which I agree with, was that this was bollaks and eating the veg was probably be better than drinking it.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nThere\'s a lot to be said for not living off junk food. But sitting down every night and imagining a bright light moving down one leg and up the other is not going to help. The only good advice in the book is that you say the silly mantras and the lightly leg thing somewhere quiert and private. You\'d look a right prat doing it in public.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nI\'ll but good money on out living this woman, despite the pizza. I\'m also certain I can out run, out endure out lift and generally out fitness her too, even with a hangover. You probably do well on telly lady, but people who read books a little more sophisticated.<br />','http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/Y/yawye/','','rubbish, ripoff, joke, seaweed','2005-04-23 08:44:24'),(119,3,'Has Science got rid of God',3,'<h3>I\'ve just been to a talk by John Blanchard</h3>\r\n <p><a href=\"http://www.johnblanchard.org\"><img src=\"http://www.johnblanchard.org/images/products/ICC668blankband.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"></a>He describes himself as a \"Christian Apologetic\" what ever that means, he\'s author of a famous book entitled \"Does god believe in Atheists\". He clearly frequently speaks on the subject of science and God. He admits to not knowing much science and, for those of us who do, this seriously undermines his credibility.<br>\r\nFirstly he is a very skilled orator, and well prepared. He answers questions in great detail and usually not the actual question asked. He reminds me, in this election time, of a politician trying to be honest whilst having his own agenda.</p>\r\n<p> Many of his statistics are slewed or biased. Mostly he claimed that a great number of people converted to Christianity and become better people and that he\'d never hear a reverse example. Well I used to be a god botherer. My respect for others, insightfullness, and concern for the rest of the world and the environment have all significantly increased since becoming an atheist. Christianity has been criticised for its attitude \"earth was never meant to be a paradise, so don\'t worry about it be a good god botherer and go to heaven which doesn\'t have these problems\" which actively discourages Christians for addressing serious issues such as saving the planet and aspiring to a better society. </p>\r\n<p> I especially disagree with his definition of Science, for the sake of his talk he attempted to define science; fair enough. His definition was the search for truth in nature. Which on the face of it was fine, as he went on to put his case it was clear this definition was wrong. A better description of modern science would be creating models to describe and predict nature.</p>\r\n<p>Most fundamental to his understanding of science was his lack or realisation that science (physics at least) is a model, not absolute truth.At one point he mentioned atoms and molecules. I know that the standard atomic model, you know the the one that goes protons and neutrons in a lump in the middle, electrons as little dots whizzing around the out side is tripe . Atoms look nothing like that, its just a human construct to explain it. Most modern physics falls into the same category. Colour - merely an interpretation by our brains - not \"truth\". He also claimed science frequently gets it wrong. Again from the point of view of his previous failure to comprehend how science works this makes little sense. He even mentioned the sun going around the earth.he claimed was an obvious example of science getting it wrong. I can add many others, from the point of view of Einstienian physics Newton too was \"wrong\". However in its full complexity the <a href=\"content.php?Cat=4&Res=10\">Ptolemaic version of the earth centred universe</a> was so good at actually predicting the position of the planets it stayed in service long after the copernican model was accepted as the \"truth\" Likewise, just because Einstein\'s relativity supercedes Newtonian mechanics doesn\'t mean that for most jobs newtonian mechanics wont do incredibly well 999 jobs out of 1000. </p>\r\n<p>He preceded to quote (at length) the names of many celebrities, scientists and others, who were committed Christians. I never got to ask my last question, which was rhetorical anyway. </p>\r\n<h3 align=\"center\">Is is more politically expedient to be a Christian or an Atheist?</h3>\r\n<p>Most Christians are relatively self righteous, so are virulent atheists like my self. However most atheists don\'t go around making an issue of it, the main point of not believing in god is you don\'t care. As a result I suspect you hear more of the Christians, cos they say they are. Also saying your a Christian Scientist can help divert the more critical God botherer\'s, I suspect. There are more religious extremists out there than Atheist ones. </p>\r\n<p>Mr Blanchard is a good evangelist, not a serious debater of the issues. In this case that was very noticeable by the lack of equally quantified debater in opposition, none the less many students didn\'t seem convicted. The scientists I recognised in the audience particularly so I would say. Nigel commented his argents against science not having all the answers were just as applicable to the Religion. He commented that the scientists can\'t say <em>why</em> the big bang happened, this directly equivalent to <em>why</em> does god exist? This pretty much sums up the whole debate, science works by proposal of a hypothesis this, the devising some tests to see if its stands up (Terry Pratchett recommends standing on a hill in wet copper armor shouting \"All the Gods are Bastards\"). If god exits and is all powerful then the outcome of any test you might create prove whether or not God does exist can\'t possibly work because either he does exist and therefore the conditions of the test are controlled by him, or he doesn\'t exist and the test won\'t get a positive. Lack of information in its self not being negative. On this we agree, mind you I don\'t go around giving talks about an unanswerable questions. Science can\'t entirely prove the existence or otherwise of God, the nearest it could come is discovering everything their is to know about the universes and how it works. Christianity is getting less accurate as time goes on. Translations, changes in culture and understanding changing the content/understanding of the Bible. Science on the other hand is getting bigger and more detailed. As time goes by the science will have more of the answers, or at worst more questions. Religion tends to give the answer \"god\" to all these questions. Making me inclined to add Christianity to the same category as the morons who think Aliens built the pyramids. Give humanity a bit of credit, you may be a small minded moron, but many member of the human race have higher brain functions and higher aspirations. The best achievements of humanity are its achievements alone, not god\'s. Its worst excesses are it fault, into the devils. I see no other way it can be if we are to grow as a species - not that I have much hope on that front. </p>','http://www.johnblanchard.org/','','john blanchard, god, athiest, science, tripe','2005-05-03 21:23:54'),(123,1,'Quantum Mechanics',3,'<p><img src=\"content/pic/aTOM.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">This is Inspired, its probably copyright too, still some times you jsut go to take a risk. I beilve it originally came from <a href=\"http://www.private-eye.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Private Eye</a> Private Eye sueing someone, rather than being sued, that would be ironic</P>\r\n<p>As you can see its been pinned to the fridge for many years now and its a bit yellow</p>\r\n<p>If you don\'t appreciate this joke your should probably study wave partical duality.</p>\r\n','http://www.private-eye.co.uk','','Private Eye, Quantum, Mechanics, Cartoon, Davis, Atom, smasher, partical, sub, atomic,','2005-05-12 19:13:23'),(124,3,'The Metaler vote',3,'<a href=\"content/down/cons.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Conservative Heavy Metal</a>\r\n<p>I have to share this with the rest of the World. This lame letter came throught just before election 2005, the local conserative candidate seems to be targenting the critiacla heavy metal vote.</P><br />\r\n<div align=\"centre\"><b>\"In Brighton, you have a real chance of electing someone to the House of Commons who, rather than wanting to ban the likes of Alice Cooper, would like tickets!\"</b></div><br />\r\n<p>Read it an weep, I did. Wer\'re not sure what planet this guy lives on but its not earth. Whats embarrsing is that this guy came second! Of course he didn\'t win. He did however, beat the Greens by 800 odd vots. We\'ll get him next time. Vote green or this guy will be concidered credible</p><br />\r\n','','','conservative, sad, loosers, morons, desparate, electionballs, waste, useless','2005-05-25 18:17:51'),(125,3,'North Coventry TAGB',5,'A good Friend\'s Tae Kwon Do club.','http://www.northcoventrytagb.co.uk/','1',NULL,'2005-06-06 21:20:28'),(126,1,'Auto Power Swich',3,'<p><img src=\"content/pic/closeup_onswich.jpg\" width=\"538\" height=\"437\" align=\"right\">Switch on your pc when power applied, not by pushing a button. Originally designed for EPIA MS8000 Mini ITX motherboard, this baby will switch your pc on when eve it gets power.</p>\r\n<h3>Description:</h3>\r\n<p>A replacement for the momentary action switch on the front of a of a PC this detects the power being restored to the PC waits a second and a half and then pops the power switch automatically. Great for home built servers that you want to turn on when power is restored. Or in out case when its in a Waterproof box up a tree in Glastonbury.</p>\r\n<h3>PARTS:</h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>Strip board</li>\r\n  <li>CMOS Quad NAND gate Chip (4011)</li>\r\n  <li>2.2&mu;F Capacitor</li>\r\n  <li>4.7&mu;F Capacitor</li>\r\n  <li>1M&Omega; 0.25W Resistor</li>\r\n  <li>560k&Omega; 0.25W Resistor </li>\r\n  <li>4.7k&Omega; 0.25W Resistor</li>\r\n  <li>BC549B NPN Transistor (or similar)</li>\r\n  <li>1 Reset/Pwr Switch case wire.</li>\r\n  <li>1 case speaker wire.</li>\r\n  <li>Couple of bits of wire (single strand insulated for preference)</li>\r\n  <li>Self Adhesive PCB mount (optional) </li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><img src=\"content/pic/circuit_onSwich.png\" width=\"508\" height=\"250\" border=\"1\"><br>\r\n  Circuit Diagram</p>\r\n<h3 align=\"left\">How it Works: </h3>\r\n<p align=\"left\">The Resistors on the left charge the capacitors up. When the capacitors get above 2.5 volts the NAND gate\'s detect their inputs going from low to high. The left hand NAND above is configured as a NOT gate, so when power is applied to the circuit its inputs are low and its output high. The Middle NAND gate is receiving at startup a low from its resistor capacitor and and a high from the left hand NAND. After about 1.5 seconds the right hand capacitor has reached 2.5 volts, turning the middle NAND gates inputs to HIGH and HIGH, as the left hand capacitor takes longer to reach 2.5 volts. The left hand capacitor takes about .25 seconds longer to reach 2.5 volts, when it does the middle NAND goes back to HIGH low. IF we look at the truth table for a NAND (Not And) gate:</p>\r\n<table width=\"100%\"  border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\r\n  <tr bgcolor=\"#000000\">\r\n    <th scope=\"col\"><div align=\"center\">Input 1 </div></th>\r\n    <th scope=\"col\"><div align=\"center\">Input 2 </div></th>\r\n    <th scope=\"col\"><div align=\"center\">output</div></th>\r\n  </tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">0</div></td>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">0</div></td>\r\n    <td bgcolor=\"#9900CC\"><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n  </tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">0</div></td>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n    <td bgcolor=\"#9900CC\"><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n  </tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">0</div></td>\r\n    <td bgcolor=\"#9900CC\"><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n  </tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n    <td><div align=\"center\">1</div></td>\r\n    <td bgcolor=\"#9900CC\"><div align=\"center\">0</div></td>\r\n  </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<p align=\"left\"><img src=\"content/pic/trace_onswich.png\" width=\"496\" height=\"318\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\">We can see that a NAND gives out a low, only when BOTH its inputs are high. In this case that only occurs when one capacitor has reached 2.5 volts and the other has not. This gives us the wait for 1.5 then switch the pc on, nut don\'t hold the button in signal we want. Unfortunately its the wrong way up. On power up the middle nand gives out high for 1.5 seconds, then low for a quarter second then goes high again. To drive the transistor on the right we want he opposite, so we use another NAND with its inputs hooked together to make a NOT gate. The 4.7k resistor is to limit the current into the base of the transistor. The Image shown on the right is a dual trace PC oscilloscope. the Lower, red, trace is the power supply coming in. The green trace the output to the transistor switch on the right, which is connected to the switch header of the PC. </p>\r\n<h3 align=\"left\">Connections</h3>\r\n<p align=\"left\">On the Mini ITX boards we\'re using, the keyboard and mouse header has the ITX always on power supplied to it. We use pins 2 and six, because their easy to spot, separated as they are by the blank key slot. We use an old PC case speaker connector, with the pins moved from 1 and 4 to one and 3. If you want you can cut off the extra slot too, if it makes you feel better. </p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><img src=\"content/pic/swich_kb_header.png\" width=\"550\" height=\"494\" border=\"1\"><br>\r\n  EPIA MS8000 mother board Keyboard/Mouse header used as power supply.</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">If your running this off another type of motherboard you\'ll need to find your own source of always on 5 volts.</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">The on switch is easier, all you need to do is plug the thing in instead of the switch NOTE, I\'m not sure abut this but I think the current has to flow the right way through the transistor. The +ve side of the switch there for, needs to be attached to the COLECTOR, top of my circuit diagram, emitter, the one with the little arrow on the bottom of my circuit diagram to ground. Pins 6 and 8 respectively:</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><img src=\"content/pic/swich_pw_header.png\" width=\"749\" height=\"606\" border=\"1\"> <br>\r\n  EPIA MS8000 Power Switch Header</p>\r\n<h3>Construction</h3>\r\n<p>Well that\'s relatively easy, I\'ll add the strip board layout when I have time to draw it on a PC. The only things you really need to look out for are:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>Capacitors are POLORISED, that means they need to be connected the right way round, the negative leg is marked by a strip with &quot;-&quot; on it on the case.</li>\r\n  <li>Chips need power, these are customarily left out of the circuit diagram for clarity, as they are in this case. Pin 14 needs +5 volts and pin 7 0 volts.</li>\r\n  <li>Transistors have different pinnouts, make sure you get yours with the resistor on the base, and the outputs on the collector and emitter.</li>\r\n</ul>','http://www.piertopier.net','','PC, on, swich, CMOS, auto, power, atx','2005-06-10 11:41:08'),(127,1,'Intel Wireless LAN cards',3,'Intel WiFI cards, as found in centrino laptops and others are a real nightmare. The sypmtoms I\'ve noticed incude:<br />\r\nRefusal to connect to unencrypted networks. Windows says \"Are you sure you want to connect to this unsecured network\", you hit yes and widndows says are you sure you want.... for <b>EVER</b><br />\r\n<br />\r\nIncompatible with access points. Several Intel Cards have refussed to connect to my Wavelan II access point. The wavelan has a WiFi (wireless fideleity) sticker on the Intel Centrio laptops don\'t. Other brands such as cisco 340, and belkin and a D link are all fine. The laptops are fine if you stick one of my other cards in them!<br />\r\n<br />\r\nIncopmatible with linux access points. Incuding MeshAP, (prism II chipset wifi cards), our peble linux based access points (Atheros Cards, madwifi driver)<br />\r\n<br />\r\nInability to get the Intel utility to work. The Windows XP wireless Zero configuration has its well know nad well documented failing. These can usualyy be resolved by tunrning it off, and using the manufactures card utility instead. Only the one for Intel WiFi cards is impossible to find on their website, difficult to istall and doen\'t recognise their cards.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nMy advice to you is DON\'T on any account buy one if you want to really be wireless. Whether they are actually WiFi complient and tested I don\'t know. What  I do know is they are far morelikly to cause problems than other cards.\r\n\r\nADDED:\r\n<a href=\"http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=11402\"> More Problems</a> - looks like I\'m not allone in problems with intel WiFi cards. Que up people or vote with your feet.\r\n\r\nTom','http://www.intel.com','','crap, porr, failed, don\'t work, intel, problem','2005-06-25 15:32:49'),(128,1,'Orinocos\'s Still Rule',3,'The fisrt major wireless network cards on the market were produced by Lucent. Most famous are the Orinoco silver and Gold cards. Now made by agere. They rock. The\'re only 30 mW not the more modern 100 mW cards. They havea great client utiltiy, work well with netstumbler. Their performace can be enhanced by an external anntenna.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nEXAMPLE. My laptop with a cheap and nasty 5 db rubber duck anntenna outperformed an Ateros mini PCI card with a 15 db annntenna on it. About a mile from an access point with a 15 db anntenna my laptop worked the Ateros didn\'t. I had 20db above noise.','http://www.piertopier.net','','Orinoco, wavelan, lucent, agere, silver, gold','2005-06-25 15:37:31'),(129,2,'Heavy Weather Sailing',3,'<p><a href=\"content/vid/launch.AVI\"><img src=\"content/pic/launch.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\"></a>People who have not had the experience of sailing in Brighton in a bit of breeze find it a bit of a shock, even those who have high wind experience at <a href=\"http://www.wildwind.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Wildwind</a> or similar, but find the extra or ripple on the water in Brighton a bit tricky. Here&#8217;s some techniques you need for sailing when its breezy in Brighton.</p>\r\n<p><b>RIGGING</b> Rig at the bottom of the beach, or your boat will blow over on route. Change first, flapping bits of boat do it no good and will loosen knots, shackle pins etc. a minor irritation to fix on the water in light airs, impossible in a blow. Tape up sharp bits, loose bits and any pins, rings and knots, so they can&#8217;t come undone, or hole your dry suit/crew. Last thing before launch set your sail controls, pull the out haul in tight, rake the mast back if possible, take off any mast ram. Lastly put on the Cunningham (downhaul), all of it, try and rip the front out of your sail. If your boat is fitted with poor sail controls (Laser Topper Hobie 16) get help putting on the down haul or fit more purchase. Hold the boat down head to wind and use the mainsheet to pull down the boom to get more kicker and Downhaul (Cunningham). Your main will bang around like mad now, that&#8217;s why your do it last. Remember its easier to take off controls than put them on.</p>\r\n<p><b>LAUNCHING.</b> Bit of a lost art in Brighton this one, we&#8217;re also a bit anti social in this too. Most clubs launching in surf have organized gangs to get people on and off the beach the mono&#8217;s in the club are fairy supportive of each other in this. The technique is this. Get your boat set up, fully, no &#8220;I&#8217;ll sort it on the way to the start line&#8221; stuff please. Get your boat off its trolley, or gutters, right on the very edge of the water. If you have a mono, make sure it is canted over to Leeward a bit to keep the gravel out of the dagger board slot. Point its nose the course you intend to sail. Sheet the jib in (if you&#8217;ve got one), get the rudder ready on ready to go down, slot the board in, tidy up ropes so you don&#8217;t get tangled, make sure the main sheet runs freely, flip your tiller extension out the windward side. Stand with the Helm on the windward back corner, the crew at the windward shroud (or &#8220;assistant&#8221; if you&#8217;re a single hander), with his ankles getting wet. Both of you holding the boat at its angle, heeled and preventing it from sailing off. You&#8217;re now ready. Don&#8217;t launch, not yet, watch the waves, they come in a pattern of about 1 big wave followed by 6 or 7 small ones. This is due to the relative wave lengths of Channel and Atlantic waves, so its not an exact science. Take a few minutes In the ready position mentioned above. Use this time to familiarize your crew with what your going to do. Wait for a big wave, estimate the flat patch behind it, if it looks good go for it. Push the boat fast into the water, jump in and sail off before the next wave hits. The crew needs a little dagger board asap, but don&#8217;t ground it. Just enough to steer. Be gentle with the main sheet, too much and you&#8217;ll go head wind and reverse pitch pole or snap your rudder(s) by coming up the beach backwards. Don&#8217;t worry too much about your dignity, the important thing it to get the 10 ft or so past the breakers, your safe there. Once out, get out to sea, land is the enemy in this weather and get your rudders etc down at your leisure, being careful not to power up the boat. By either, bearing off too much, or sheeting in too hard. Remember a heeled over mono hull heads up into wind, that&#8217;s a nightmare, so keep it flat.</p>\r\n<p align=\"right\"><b>RIGHT:-  Paul and I launch the 14 in rough weather,  with help form a shore party, principally Steve Kindly Videoed by Roddy. elapsed time: Under 4 seconds. <a href=\"content/vid/launch.AVI\">Right Click for Full Video</a></b></p>\r\n<p><b>SAILING IN WAVES</b>. Ok don&#8217;t get creative, you need to look where, your going, not at the tiller or mainsheet. Communicate well with your crew if you have one, tell them to do basic things for you, tiding the main sheet etc. On a mono make sure only one of you goes in to the bottom of the boat at a time. Shout, but don&#8217;t face the person your taking to, you need to be looking at what your doing, not staring romantically into their eyes, or you&#8217;ll be staring romantically into the eye of a mackerel before you know it. Practice sailing like this in light weather, it&#8217;s a skill that needs to be learned, you can&#8217;t see which way a cars going by looking at the steering wheel, nor a boat by looking at the tiller, don&#8217;t do it. Straight lines are a good idea, check with your crew before pulling in the main or traveler, make sure their ready. If you&#8217;re in a trapeze boat then keeping your footing in rough weather is hard. Don&#8217;t cling to the handle, brace your self with the jib sheet and traveler as guy ropes if your crewing or main sheet a tiller if your helm.</p>\r\n<p>Toe loops are great, consider fitting them (Windsurfer toe straps from Surfladle, Shoreham beach are good). Twin wire at your peril! Keep the boat FLAT, in a mono, and don&#8217;t fly a hull on a cat, you&#8217;ll need the buoyancy. In the mono&#8217;s case you want the boom to go out without hitting the water.</p>\r\nBefore attempting a manoeuvre, think about it. Gybeing especially without a spinnaker is very, very hard in windy weather, and should only be attempted at speed, with the boat flat and going down a wave. If you go into a gybe slow, or nose down climbing a wave, you&#8217;ll never make it. Rolling mono a little to windward, will bear it a way without needing a violent tug on the rudder, which slows you down. In a cat keep the weight back, the rules about speed and picking your moment still stand. You&#8217;ll know if you got it right, the noise is distinctive. It goes zip thunk thunk thunk thunk. The zip is the traveller going a cross, the thunks are individual battens popping over. There should be no wangs, creaks bangs or sharp shocks. Seriously think about NOT gibing, do a tack instead.</p>\r\n<p>Tacking, make sure your going hard on the wind, be careful about backing the jib in a Mono it shouldn&#8217;t be necessary , on a single hander or Hobie cat, you&#8217;ll find it hard to make it through the tack, you need to be hard on the wind and powered (flat) going in, choose your wave and remember a Hobie with a backed jib can go over backwards, or sideways so get your weigh in the right place.</p>\r\n<p><b>LANDING</b> Don&#8217;t relax till your on the beach. Hang around, well out beyond the surf, try and attract the notice of those on shore, they should get ready to help you, some will wave back&#8212;ignore these people! Loosen the dagger board(s) and rudder(s). Try and find a flat spot but don&#8217;t bail out to late, get your weigh RIGHT back. as far back as you can. Sail fast, but not flat out, ideally you&#8217;ll sail all the way to the beach on the back of a wave. It will wash out from under you and you step out onto gravel, and pull the boat up before the next wave. Too little speed and the wave behind hits your transom and swings you side ways, and rolls you over. Too fast and you sail over the top and nose dive. If you\'re going to get it wrong, the second one is usually better.</p>\r\n<p>If you don&#8217;t try it you&#8217;ll never learn, Paul, Mike, Simon and Brian Routinely launch in rough, weather. I can manage the massively overpowered flying machine that is my 14. Its not hard, follow the above rules and you&#8217;ll find it more exhilarating than you can imagine, you don&#8217;t need to go on holiday for high wind sailing, you can do it here. Nervous? I nearly wet myself launching sometimes. But I can control my boat and my bladder for 5 seconds, and  that&#8217;s all it takes.</p>','http://www.brightonsc.org.uk','','waves, surf, launch, chop, beach','2005-06-28 22:19:24'),(130,1,'Glastonbury',6,'These are photos of piertopier.net at the Glastonbury festival in 2005.','http://www.piertopier.net','John','Glastonbury, Festival, mud, 2005,','2005-06-07 10:30:46'),(131,1,'John',2,'John Scott Web Manager of the Glastonbury Festival, seeks comfort amid the mud','John','130',NULL,'2005-06-29 18:44:17'),(132,1,'BT',2,'BT\'s Entire set was downloaded over piertopier\'s net by my self Chris and Ben, after British Airways lost his luguage on route to the gig.','BTFar','130',NULL,'2005-06-29 18:51:43'),(133,1,'Struck by lightning',2,'Dance tent oposite was hit by lightning!','dance','130',NULL,'2005-06-29 18:55:10'),(134,1,'Dry Feet',2,'keep your feet dry use a bike','bike','130',NULL,'2005-06-29 18:55:44'),(135,1,'Watery mellon',2,'Water is an apropriate term','melon','130',NULL,'2005-06-29 18:56:25'),(136,1,'Piggy Back',2,'get a free piggy back to the stall anyone?','piggyback','130',NULL,'2005-06-29 18:57:02'),(137,1,'B-T',2,'Rocking set, we should know we cose it, randomly, off the internet','btclose','130',NULL,'2005-06-30 19:44:09'),(138,3,'Launch Video',3,'<p>Yeeeee Haaaaa. This video was shot by Roddy, of my self and Paul launching in a bit of swell off Brighton Beach. It convienintly ilustrates an artical I was writing on <a href=\"content.php?Cat=2&Res=129\">High Wind High Wave Sailing</a></p><br />\r\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"content/vid/launch.AVI\"><img src=\"images/icons/download.png\" border=\"0\"></a></p><br />\r\n<p>Someone I sent it to couldn\'t play it. He\'s got a nice PC running windows XP, and therefore Windows Media Player, so its not suprising it don\'t work. Its a Motion JPEG video compression codec of some sort. Mplayer managed it fine, but it would. Windows media will probably do something irritiating like play audio only. See my <a href=\"content.php?Cat=5&Res=108\">video help page</a> if you get stuck.</p><br />\r\nI\'t doesn\'t really show how rough it was very well. This one does better but doesn\'t make me look good, which deflates my ego. <a href=\"content/vid/Landing.avi\"> Landing back on the beach Video</a>','http://www.brightonsc.org.uk','','surf, launch, balistic, wave, break, 14, international, brighton, beach','2005-07-02 16:26:22'),(139,1,'Live at pyramid',2,'Uploading keene to the internet','PyramidLap','130',NULL,'2005-07-20 10:34:42'),(140,1,'No Cat Splash on openwrt',3,'<p>To get captive portal working on openwrt you need to do the following:<br />\r\nGet White Russian. from <a href=\"http://openwrt.org\" target=\"_blank\">openwrt.org</a></p>\r\n<p>Set it up using the instructions on their site. <b>Warning do turn boot wait on</b> as per their instructions - they\'re not joking. Its a really good idea, without it I would have bricked my linksys.</p>\r\n<p>Wait a bit, reboot it as per install instuctions, set you password, as per <a href=\"http://openwrt.org\" target=\"_blank\">openwrt.org</a>.</p>\r\n<p><img src=\"content/pic/splash.png\" align=\"right\" alt=\"picture of Piertopier\'s splash screen\">Ok now your ready for my bit.</p>\r\n  type <div class=\"code\">ipkg update</div><br />\r\n  then <div class=\"code\">ipkg install nocatsplash</div><br />\r\n<p>this should download most of the appropriate bits.</p>\r\n<p>Now you need to stop the default openwrt firewall rules from loading. They override the Captive Portal rules otherwise. To do this you need to remove the S from front of the script so its not run on boot:<br />\r\n  type <div class=\"code\">mv /etc/init.d/S45firewall /etc/init.d/K45firewall</div><br />\r\n  Now if you\'ve got a normal linksys wrt54g then you should find that the /etc/nocat.conf will work fine. However you may want to edit it to reflect your settings. NoCat will figure out the appropriate settings its self for the interfaces, or it does on mine. If you\'ve mucked around with its normal routing, bridging and similar functions then you may have to check the interfaces in /etc/nocat.conf. Also if you have a version 1 wrtg or another manufacturers access point (mine worked its a WRT54G v2.2\r\n  <p>\r\n<p>There\'s a couple of fixes needed to get the actually package to work however, one thing you do need to do, the file /usr/lib/NoCatSplash/initialize.fw, loads some iptables modules needed by nocat. Unfortunately its missing ipt_REDIRECT which is kind of important as its the bit you need to get redirected to the splash. You need to locate the line:</p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"code\">for module in ipt_TOS ipt_mac; do</div><br>\r\nand replace it with:<br>\r\n<div class=\"code\">for module in ipt_TOS ipt_mac ipt_REDIRECT; do</div></p>\r\n\r\n<p>You can test the function of no cat, by typing <strong>splashd</strong> at the prompt - this shouldn\'t give you any errors, and access the internet again you should be captive portaled by no cat splash and asked for a login!</p>\r\n<p>The package doesn\'t start up on its own! So your going to need the init script. This appears to be missing from the ipkg here\'s one Dave from piertopier.net sent me, from another nocat package, pop it in /etc/init.d/S60nocat and make it bootable with \r\n<div class=\"code\">chmod +x /etc/init.s/S60nocat</div>\r\n<h3>Start Up Script Code</h3>\r\n<blockquote><div class=\"code\">\r\n#!/bin/sh\r\n#\r\n# start/stop splashd super server.\r\ncase \"$1\" in\r\n<blockquote>    start)<br>\r\n        <blockquote>echo -n \"Starting NoCat splash server:\"<br>\r\n        echo -n \" splashd\" ;<br>\r\n        /usr/sbin/splashd -D &<br>\r\n        echo \".\"<br>\r\n        ;;<br></blockquote>\r\n    stop)<br>\r\n        <blockquote>echo -n \"Stopping NoCat splash server:\"<br>\r\n        echo -n \" splashd\" ;<br>\r\n        killall splashd<br>\r\n        echo \".\"<br>\r\n        ;;<br></blockquote>\r\n    restart)<br>\r\n        <blockquote>echo -n \"Restarting NoCat splash server:\"<br>\r\n        echo -n \" splashd\"<br>\r\n        $0 stop<br>\r\n        $0 start<br>\r\n        echo \".\"<br>\r\n        ;;<br></blockquote>\r\n    *)<br>\r\n        <blockquote>echo \"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}\"<br>\r\n        exit 1<br>\r\n        ;;<br></blockquote></blockquote>\r\nesac<br>\r\nexit 0<br>\r\n</div></blockquote>\r\n\r\n<h3>Stability Warning</h3>\r\nNoCat splash has some serious stability issues on OpenWRT. It falls over from time to time, no idea why, when it falls over it needs to be restarted. <a href=\"http:\\\\www.locustworld.com\" target=\"_blank\">MeshAP</a> seems to have a problem too. It uses a cronjob to restart it when it dies. I\'ve not solved this problem, instead I switched to <a href=\"http://www.chillisport.org\" target=\"_blank\">Chillispot</a> instead. I assume using wget to retrieve the splash screen and running the startup script if it doesn\'t would work.</p>\r\n<h3>Making the Splash look Pretty</h3>\r\n<p>If you want to edit your splash page to make it fit your tastes then edit. /usr/share/NoCatSplash/htdocs/splash.html ours looks like <a href=\"temp/OpenWRTSplash/\">This</a>. Remember its got to render on a PDA - or if a nut like me\'s around lynx.......</p>\r\n<h3>Nocat Splash Compatibility Issues</h3>\r\n<p>We\'ve stopped using NoCat on OpenWRT in favour of Chillispot, however we still use it (or NoCat auth?) on <a href=\"http:\\\\www.locustworld.com\" target=\"_blank\">MeshAP</a>, PSP\'s don\'t like it but can be tweaked with a special option see <a href=\"http:\\\\www.piertopier.net/\" target=\"_blank\">piertopier.net forums</a>. Certain PDA\'s don\'t like it - might relate to windows update? New versions of Safari on a Mac don\'t like it either. In this case the only known solution is get Firefox.</p>\r\n','http://openwrt.org','','nocat.conf, nocat, no, cat, splash, gateway, splashd, captive, portal','2005-08-01 14:58:45'),(141,2,'Calshott Cats',5,'','http://www.calshotcats.co.u','5',NULL,'2005-08-23 20:17:01'),(142,2,'Brighton Explorers',5,'','http://www.brightonexplorers.org/public/','5',NULL,'2005-08-23 20:19:31'),(143,3,'Didn\'t look so Dodgy at the Time',3,'This was an advert for the Sailing Club during the Council\'s Rockin \"Brighton & Hove Seafront Celebration\"<br />\r\n<center><img src=\"content/pic/adhording.jpg\"></center><br />\r\nAs events go it was a disaster - weather was aufull, seafront empty, advatising like <a href=\"http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/index.cfm?request=b1114322&event_id=CCA757BB0FFBA1BD8025703D003956B0&cDate=%7Bts%20%272005%2D07%2D25%2011%3A16%3A49%27%7D&caller=home.showWeek&action=showEvent\" target=\"_blank\">this</a> means I imagine nobody knew about it - mind you looking at a road sweeper ait too exiting. However I didn\'t realise how scruffy looking my boat was. Mind you it was blowing hooly so I used the old wreck of a jib.<br />\r\n','http://www.piertopier.net','','piertopier.net, wifi, seafront, council, brighton','2005-08-24 13:39:44'),(144,1,'Open WRT',5,'Firmware for linksys wrt54G (and other) routers ','http://openwrt.org','2',NULL,'2005-08-26 17:01:32'),(145,2,'Chichester Wind',5,'','http://www.chimet.co.uk/','4',NULL,'2005-08-26 17:03:37'),(147,2,'Alex\'s Photos',5,'Alex\'s Flickr, including sailing off the beach and Glastonbury.','http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexstudd/','5',NULL,'2005-08-26 17:24:05'),(148,1,'Ben\'s Glastonbury Photos',5,'','http://www.flickr.com/photos/bafjohnson/sets/486507/','4',NULL,'2005-08-26 17:26:34'),(149,2,'Skiff Humor',5,'','http://www.rclass.org/humour','3',NULL,'2005-08-26 17:27:28'),(150,2,'Spitfire Video',5,'','http://www.spitfiresailing.org.uk/data/spitfiredemo_256.wmv','5',NULL,'2005-08-26 17:31:45'),(151,3,'ShittyLink',3,'I live in a city, not a hamlet, not a town a village or a suburb. A city. Inicial Citylink are a courier company, and as such are obvoiulsly hate figures. However Unlike <b><i>EVERY</i></b> other courier company they take your parcels for collection to a depo in Hailsham. Thats Practically Kent! Miles from Brighton. Its not a city nor near one. Its not even a big town.<br />\r\nNow Brighton has the lowest car ownership rates in the South East (bar London) - wooah lets make sure their parcel\'s go to a one sheep town 30 miles away, with no public transport. Hailsham doesn\'t even have a railway station, or bus service to Brighton. In fact it doesn\'t even have dual carigway road to it.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nRecently bought stuff off ebuyer - DON\'T if you live in Brighton they use shittylink. A music shop in town (ridiculously) has signed a contract with shittylink measn that they can\'t allow collection of ordered online items and no they can\'t post \'em were sending to HAILSHAM - from arround the corner.<br />\r\n<br />\r\n\"No we can\'t Deliver on Saturday\", \"no you can\'t change the delivery address\", \"no we can\'t keep it, after 5 days and it gets sent back!\".<br />\r\n<br />\r\nI NEVER buy off companies I know deal with shittylink. Moslty cos you can never get your parcels. My flatmate\'s failed delivery has just (I was in and they never rang the door bell) resulted an a cancelation of a couple of hundred quids worth of buisness. Remember buisnesses, Incial Citylink Sucks and will loose your buisness customers. When I last phoned them up I got the distict impression that the\'d had had this problem a lot. They even new the right number (non-public) for sorting out troubles with ebuyer. Coinicence? I think not - they\'d dealt with this before.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>Apologies to Hailsham, and those that live there. I know it well, its a loverly town. Just not a good place for Brighton\'s delivery depo.<br>','http://www.city-link.co.uk/','','shit, crap, citylink, couriers, useless, problems, hailsham,','2005-09-01 17:30:02'),(152,3,'Flying Spaghetti Monsterism',5,'Touched by his noodley appendage? No? Heathen. Home of Pastafarianism, designed to irritate the creationism is science myth in American schools. ','http://www.venganza.org','2',NULL,'2005-09-01 19:47:59'),(153,1,'camserv on Slackware',3,'Camserv won\'t compile, this is a common problem these days apparently. New versions off glibc or gcc or whatever its called are apparenly less tolerant of missing bits than the older verions. If you download camserv do \"./Configre\", then \"make install\" and it fails with a bunch of Call to undifined functions messages, talking about errno then its beacuse the following line is missing from the top of some of the files.<br />\r\n<br />\r\n<img src=\"http://www.brightonsc.org.uk/webcam/singleframe\" width=\"352\" height=\"288\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><div class=\"code\">#include &lt;errno.h&gt;</div><br />\r\n<br />\r\nTo solve the problem then go to the .c files that won\'t compile and add the above next to the other #incude lines and that file will compile fine. This include relay/relay.c, camserv/main_loop.c and camserv/camserv.c They may have been others I had to modify too.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nHope this helps!<br />\r\n<br />\r\nTom','http://cserv.sourceforge.net/','','camserv, gcc, compile, trouble, problem errno.h','2005-09-03 14:35:48'),(155,2,'Windswept the movie',3,'Fun with an open 60.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nHelly Hannson got a bunch of they\'re extreem sports athletes. Put them on on Knut Frostats open 60 \"Academy\". Then then told the lot of \'em to go and have fun.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nI go this as a DVD on the front of Dinghy Sailor Magazine.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nClip One. <a href=\"content/vid/Breezy.wmv\">30 knots, one open 60, a windsurfer and some kite surfers</a> 19 meg.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nClip Two. <a href=\"content/vid/WakeBoard.wmv\">Wakeboarding behind an open 60 try</a> 32 meg.<br />\r\nYou probably want to be a bit patient downloading these. Firstly right click and save target as. Then go get a cup of tea.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nThis is probably copywrite, however its been given away free on a magazine, and it doesn\'t apear to be available else where. So I\'m going to take a flyer.','http://www.hellyhansen.com/','','Helly, Hanson, open 60, pissing, about, ','2005-10-24 21:32:40'),(156,2,'Penultimate Sailing',3,'<p>Some one asked my for advice on sailing penultimates. Well I\'m no good at it. I have got some advice for other inept types trying ot sail a penny.\r\n </p>\r\n <p>Some things I have learned:</p>\r\n<p><img src=\"content/pic/wrongway.jpg\" alt=\"Single Handed Picture\" width=\"400\" height=\"254\" align=\"right\">Don\'t pinch and sail flat when going up wind. Man you can make \'em crawl if you pinch. Sailing properly up wind is hard work. I\'m running 3-1 mainsheet. same as a laser. Makes trimming up wind VERY hard. The idea is the crew does it - my crewsnaaaaaa. I keep it cos when I let go of it I want the boom to go out quick! Or its another trip in the drink.</p>\r\n<p>Best way of capsizing one is the twin wire tea bag manouver. If you and you crew end up in the water, the boat will sail along quite happily at 45 degrees, forever. You will remain 6 feet from the boat and will never get back to it. Its very frustrating. Be very careful about twinning in gusty or marginal conditions. According to the 14 website this is the helm\'s fault. Ok so I\'m not good at it. There actually harder to pitch pole than I expected. The kite lifts the nose something rotten.</p>\r\n<p>Hang on to the tiller at all times, dumping main or kite will probably not save you, hiking / wiring won\'t either an any sort of wind. The only thing that keeps you upright is heading up or bearing off in emergencies. Steering is the key to staying upright. Good people can probably manage. But if you get a big gust with the kite up you have no choice - you can sheet out or main or flag the kite. You\'ll still need to bear off like crazy or you\'ll swim. When this happens it feels like you\'ve been attached to an inter continental ballistic missile its awesome.</p>\r\n<p>They\'re horribly unstable when not moving. Don\'t stop, ever, coming out of tacks when your crew\'s inept is a particularly bad. Esspeccially when they sheet the huge jib in bar tight mid tack. You kind of have to dump the main sheet and go out on the handle as the boat accelerates sideways. Any sort of forward motion and it stays up right. When stopped that huge ali mast festooned with rigging, ways a ton, and has huge leverage if you let the bugger get leaned over too much. Hove-to doesn\'t work. Also if you stop you kind of sink. </p>\r\n<p>Watch the kite in very light winds, its so big and so far forward it bears the boat away like crazy. has far more effect than the rudder if your not careful.</p>\r\n<p>Rig settings - buggered if I know. The 2 spreader rig is new to me. Pulling the jumper shrouds (top ones) bends the mast like a bastard. Great in strong winds pig in light. lowers straighten it out. I ease one and pull the other as a double act. In the light stuff I take the slack out of jumpers, and pull the lowers till the bottom half of the mast is almost straight. I use as little jumper as I dare, that mast head kite must be a hell of a load.<br>\r\n  In strong winds, rake mast back, ease lowers - don\'t let em flap around they do support the mast laterally. Be aggressive with Cunningham and jumpers. you can flatten the main off a lot. A 14 - even a penultimate is not short of power. I\'m cautions of the kicker. loose it for manoovers . Its fine upwind but doesn\'t half cause trouble when your in the stopped coming out of a slow tack moment. </p>\r\n<p><img src=\"content/pic/Righting.gif\" alt=\"Animate Capsiize\" width=\"242\" height=\"278\" align=\"left\">Get fit, get a comfortable harness with out straps. I used to wear a cheap magic marine one with straps and buckles all over. Now got a \"Skiff Light\" no buckles or straps and its well comfortable. Most Ausies, and skiff sailors get sail makers to make \'em to measure. Most commercial ones are aimed at cat sailors I guess. The 14 made me give up smoking, now however I\'m used to it its easier to handle with out a hernia.</p>\r\n<p>Penny\'s are awesome fun, a 14 foot carbon chip with 40 odd square meters, down wind its as near to flying as you can get without a plane. Once your settled with the kite up the boat really flies. The hull suddenly becomes very stable and the rudder responsive. Its not like high speed on f18\'s that I\'m used to. On the f18 its like clinging on for dear life on the side of a train. With the 14 its like its attached to you, its no good fighting it, it always wins. Just steer it flat and don\'t over sheet the kite. You can brace yourself with your legs apart, the \"Girraf having a drink\" position. Won\'t help. If you trapeze with your feet together and lean back when you bear away it will float along. Then your crew falls over, which is annoying, don\'t try and help em - you\'ll just capsize.</p>\r\n<p>Theory is that the helm just keeps the boat upright, everything else is the crews problem (from the i14 website). I agree I just wish I had a regular crew.</p>\r\n<p>More info:<br>\r\n  Get hold of a copy of Higher Faster DVD. Apparently the 49er\'s say don\'t even try and sail one without watching it. Its good, very good.<br>\r\n  <a href=\"http://gbr.i14.org/penultimate/rules.html\" target=\"_blank\">http://gbr.i14.org/penultimate/rules.html</a> I stopped after the first paragraph that describes the differences.<br>\r\n  <a href=\"http://www.i14.org/boat/training.html\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.i14.org/boat/training.html</a><br>\r\n  <a href=\"http://www.i14.org/boat/training2.html\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.i14.org/boat/training2.html</a> - Penultimate mast rake<br>\r\n  <a href=\"http://www.i14.org/boat/training3.html\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.i14.org/boat/training3.html</a><br>\r\n  <a href=\"http://www.i14.org/boat/training4.html\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.i14.org/boat/training4.html</a><br>\r\n  <a href=\"http://www.rclass.org/humour/\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.rclass.org/humour/</a> - not really helpful, but after 2 seasons is a twin wire boat I recognise all of these things in myself. Made me laugh</p>\r\n','http://www.i14.org','','help, beginers, guide','2005-10-26 17:40:35'),(157,2,'A Beginners Guide Skiff Racing.',3,' <h3>PREPARATION.</h3>\r\n <p><img src=\"content/pic/carbo.jpg\" alt=\"broken Carbon Fibre\" width=\"361\" height=\"422\" align=\"right\" />Arrive no more than 30 minutes before the race starts. Preferably with the replacement parts you broke last time, still in their wrappers. Don\'t bring tools, you can always borrow them off someone. Don\'t bother with  breakfast, order in in passing off the cafe. Make sure that you\'re at least halfway down the beach, borrowing the insulation tape/string/bailer sponge off some unsuspecting person when your food is ready. Leave the borrowed tools/tape etc in the rescue boat hut with a liberal coating of egg from your rapidly eaten breakfast.</p>\r\n <p>Don\'t worry about a crew - someone will turn up. If not attempt to subvert the rescue boat crew, time keeper and then members of the public. As a last result phone up any friend with a wetsuit, most of them will appreciate the wake up call, even if they can\'t sail.</p>\r\n <p>As soon as you have the boat rigged get changed, you should always leave you wetsuit in your locker so you can\'t forget it. As a result it is wet smelly and unwashed. As well the wetsuit you should have the following. At least 4 gloves, 3 of these should be left hand ones. One wetsuit boot (the other will be at the bottom of one of the black bins) and for the cold days a dry suit - this should have holes in it, borrow some gaffer tape off Barry to fix it. By the time you have found the missing boot you will have missed the briefing. don\'t worry your crew will have got it. Forget your watch. Borrow Norman\'s key to get back in for it. Then finish rigging the boat, that means stuffing the tape you borrowed, last weeks empty water bottles, etc. in the halyard pouch. Don\'t worry about the kicker or cunningham they can be rigged on the way to the start line. While your doing this send your crew back for the dagger board. If your really smart you can give him Norman\'s key which you forgot to return.</p>\r\n <p>Pull the boat down the beach whilst he is away. And finish changing. Turn the 2nd left hand glove inside out so that it can be worn on the right hand.</p>\r\n <h3>LAUNCHING</h3>\r\n <p>There are 2 launching techniques, depending on the surf.</p>\r\n <p>1.Small surf. Boat goes in on the trolley.  The crew should be at this point in 6ft of water, being dragged under by the trolley. When he/she has taken the trolley up the beach \"a bit further\", get them to hold the boat, while you run up the beach and sign on. Your wet gloves should make the time sheet soaked. His royal highness, the helm should get only his ankles wet stepping aboard. Helm attaches the rudder, to do this the crew will have hold the boat in deeper water. Just far enough out to loose all grip on the bottom. When ready, crew pushes the nose around, jumps straight over the high side of the heeling boat from shoulder deep water, pops the board in and sheets in the jib and goes out on the wire in one one fluid movement. This is archived by the instructions issued by the helm. \"S*@t we\'re late lets go, in you get f*&@... Jib.... in. IN.. IIIN. Wire s@$t...Board. Wire.\" All crews can of course get the dagger board in from the trapeze.</p>\r\n <p>2. Rough weather. Borrow as many people to help as possible. They will all be cat sailors who aren\'t in hurry because they start latter than the mono\'s. Get four people to help one at each corner. Helm takes the windward aft corner. The crew the windward front corner. 2 of the 3 cat sailors go to leeward Cleat the jib and carry the boat to the water. the The Wind increces the boats weight 3 fold which ends ups distributed something like 150% front leeward, 100% aft leeward, 45% front windward and 5% aft windward. So the helm can let go to put the rudder on with out trouble. The boat stands like this till a really big wave comes, then the 3rd cat sailor comes to the aid of his fellows. Helm steps on at this point shouts \"Lets go\" sheets the main in, clothes lines the third cat sailor with the main sheet. And releases the boat from the leeward cat sailors by hitting their heads with the boom. Crew Leaps in from the deep water. Pops in the dagger board. Boat heels crazily and stops as it is now nailed to the bottom by the board. Next wave it takes off side ways narrowly missing a hobie.</p>\r\n <h3><img src=\"content/pic/16ftSkiff.png\" alt=\"!6 ft skiff looses crew\" width=\"444\" height=\"493\" align=\"left\" />STARTING</h3>\r\n <p>In Brighton we always have a line at right angles to the beach. Coupled with the swimming area and West Pier then a skiff sailor should start by the pin.The normal method is to sail straight from the beach to the pin, down the line on starboard, helm wiring while crew finishes rigging cunningham, kicker,. re-runs the kite halyard the right way etc. Either charge along the line on Starboard cutting up everyone or pick an unsuspecting victim, sail underneath his slower boat then round up on them shouting up... up... UP. Then bear off and start. The other method relies on actually leaving  the beach before the first gun so as to arrive at the line early and sail balistically down the line, with no rights causing absolute mayhem. This is method is prefered. When this method is challenged (and it will be) the skiff sailor should say a cat got in his way forcing him to bear off. All monohulls hate cats. </p>\r\n <h3>THE BEAT</h3>\r\n <p>By now the skiff should be to in bad air, bellow a bunch of lasers, heading either straight for the pier or the the swimming area. Pull ahead of the slower boats and tack. The boat should stop head to wind and fill with water. Forcing a hoard of swearing lasers to avoid your now stationary boat (learnt this one off the hobie cats). Now the boat is really going the crew should come out on the wire to (at least 5 minutes after the start). The correct posture is legs apart as far away form the helm as possible to avoid the smell. As soon as he is on the wire, the helm should explain to him how to set all the rig controls such as lowers, caps, jib cunningham kicker that there was no time to adjust before the start. The crew will instantly understand the finer points of rig tuning and do it all off the wire, or failing that mid tack.</p>\r\n <h3>TACKING</h3>\r\n <p>Helm Says \"Can we Tack yet?\" Then when the crew looks over their shoulder to see, the helm pushes the tiller away. Steps into the boat and is trapped by the boom because he\'s not unhooked quick enought. Crew fails to un cleat the jib. twists his feet.into a knot with all the string on the floor of the boat. Hooks his cat style harness on the trapeze elastic. Finally gets the jib around mid tack, on the now stationary boat and immediately sheets it in bar tight. Jib fills boat heels viciously and accelerates sideways crew falls over, helm drops main sheet in panic and goes out on his handle to save the capsize. Helm says \"Good Tack\". </p>\r\n <h3>BEARING AWAY AT THE TOP MARK</h3>\r\n <p>This is impossible, the helm eases the main and moves his weight back to prevent the nose dive and pulls the tiller. This action causes the crew to fall forward, pulling on the jib sheet to keep balance, completely counteracting the helms weight and main work loading up the tiller and nose diving the skiff.</p>\r\n <h3><img src=\"content/pic/Righting.gif\" alt=\"Animated gif, Rightinghte Boat\" width=\"242\" height=\"278\" align=\"right\" />KITE WORK</h3>\r\n <p>Dead simple, bear off. Helm keeps the boat flat by sitting on his backside holding the tiller if the boat heels to windward the transom ballast shouts \"Get down\", if it Heels to leeward he shouts \"weight up\" as soon as the crew moves, standing on the tail end of the kite or on the pole the helm corrects the heel with  with the rudder. Constant cries of \"s&%$ weight back.Pink one, pink, PINK, no not that pink, f@~# weight back, your standing on it. The other one\" helps the process. By this time the helm will have got impatient, clipped on and be in his toe loop, crew will be attached to 25 square meters of spinnaker with face pressed firmly against the mast. crew will have approximately 3 seconds to learn to trapeze properly as the \"Giraffe having a drink technique\" Doesn\'t work downwind. To help this the crew toe loops have been fitted, the crew\'s loop should be flattened and twisted into the boat they can\'t get their foot in, especially if they\'ve foolishly left their trapeze adjuster set for upwind, as back at the toe loop they will trapezing nearly vertical. Crew should look down at the toe loop, over sheet the kite and kick the helm\'s shins just as a gust hits. When all are eventually settled it will be time to gybe, or on a typical Brighton course a gust will hit and the skiff will have to bear off heading completely the wrong way at speeds in excess of Mach2.</p>\r\n <p>Kite Drops - Don\'t worry, either the crew will drop it in the water, trawling for mackerel and capsizing the boat or the helm will steer too deep and death roll to destruction and capsize the boat.</p>\r\n <p>This article was heavily based on \"<a href=\"http://www.rclass.org/humour/beginnersguide\" target=\"_blank\">A beginners guide to sailing R Class</a>\" </p>','http:\\\\www.i14.org','','humor, skiff, joke, laugh, capsize','2005-10-27 11:38:08'),(158,8,'Leaving Apataki',3,'Here\'s some video shot be me of SV Ornen leaving Apataki in The Tomutos, French Polynesia.<br>\r\n<a href=\"content/vid/Apataki384.wmv\">Right Click to Download Video</a>\r\n','http://www.oceanhippie.org','','Atol, Tumotos, South Pacific, Ornen, Poynesia','2005-10-27 13:25:21'),(159,3,'Loads of stuff',3,'Been adding a lot of stuff lately. Ironically mostly International 14 releated. I was asked by a guy from plymought about some advice on <a href=\"content.php?Cat=2&Res=156\">handling Penultimates</a>. Must be despearate. So the long reply got edited and added to the list. <br />\r\nWhy ironically? Well I broke the 14\'s mast. Looks like it will rise from the ashes.<br />\r\nAlso added <a href=\"content.php?Cat=2&Res=157\">\"A beginners guide to Skiff Sailing\"</a> Its a bit Brighton Sailing Club biased and very tonge in cheek. A much better, but hightly similar one is avaialble on the <a href=\"http://www.rclass.org/humour\" target=\"_blank\">R-Class Skiff website\'s</a> humour section.<br />\r\nAlso I\'ve put some bits of <a href=\"content.php?Cat=2&Res=155\">\"Windswept the Movie\"</a> in. This has some awesome bit of kite, windsufing and open 60 <br />\r\ntrimaran sailing in it.<br />\r\nFar down the list is some video, shot ages ago an a pre-camcorder <a href=\"content.php?Cat=2&Res=158\">video of me leaving the Pacific atol of Apataki Videoed from the spreaders for Orenen a 51 ft 1935 Swedish Ketch.<br />','cat.php?Cat=2','','windswept, kite,','2005-10-30 15:36:59'),(162,3,'Breezy',3,'The Last Race of the Season.<br />\r\nWell it didn\'t&#8217;t happen, nobody turned up. Bar the race officer, who loyally turned up to cancel the race. I got hired as replacement crew for the CYC snowflake series.<br />\r\nThe Brighton Surf and the regular crew\'s reticence should have warned me. But at Chichester Ychat Club the new clubhouse (not finished) provided a deceptive area of calm. A calm that vanished as we left the slipway and the first gust hit. The jib flapped and banged like a Trafalgar broadside and as the gust tried to pick up most of Chichester harbour and drop it into Surrey. We careered off across Bridham Pool, Simon keeping us up right while I feverishly de-powered everything. We managed to stay upright till the start, we were in the minority. A couple of F7 gusts convinced us we were in what&#8217;s referred to in tuning guides as &#8220;Survival Conditions&#8221;. Bit breezy. Our first dip came on what was 99% of a perfect gybe. We went in. That one of the things about gybes, they&#8217;re binary either you do it right or you don&#8217;t in 25-30 knots 99% perfect is still a dip. We took ages to retrieve the kite. Enough to lose us the race. Not that plenty of others didn&#8217;t go in on the way down wind. Lasers are just easier to right. We get it up right, hoist again. Kite sets, boat accelerates like the Space Shuttle. Unfortunately Simon stays still, and the boat sails out from under him. In we go again.<br />\r\n<img src=\"content/pic/Camws.gif\" alt=\"wind speed from cammet\" align=\"right\"><br />\r\nMassive overconfidence, coupled with a slight lull made us carry on for a second lap. As we crossed the start finish line we saw a gp14* get knocked flat by a gust. We survived it by hiking, letting fly both main and jib, pinching and clinging on till it dropped a bit. Jib batten has now flogged its self out. So I stick it down my spray top. Further up the course a Merlin righted its self. Both sails flogging in 30 knots of breeze. A beautiful cloud of white spray flew off her rig, streaming hundreds of yards down wind showing no sign of falling back into the water.<br />\r\nA couple of swims latter we make the windward mark. Simon pulls the Dip stick, while telling me to ease the kicker. A more sensible order would have been ease the kicker then try the bear away. Capsize was messy. I kept trying to unhook a non existent trapeze &#8211; force of habit. Simon does an impressive back flip off the gunwale. Takes ages to right the boat. Jib batten pops out of  neck of spray top an attempts to pick my nose.<br />\r\nAfter the we get up the right way we do a bit of sorting. Simon ended up as sharpender holding  the jib, I&#8217;m driving &#8211; takes a long time to sort out, longer with a batten in your left nostril. We decide to go to do a long way around tack then hoist to avoid the gybe. A force 7-8 gust comes through and we take off. When Moses parted the red sea he didn&#8217;t cut half the watery trench we made at god knows how many knots. Wind relents for our extremely by-the-lee run to the bottom mark. We manage to survive to cross the finish line. As we do the sky goes black and the sea goes white. The horizontal rain comes down. And the wind hits gale force if I&#8217;m any judge. I look at my watch &#8211; 13:40. According to the attached graph of wind speed, from a buoy just around the corner from Birdham pool that was when the average hit 30knots and the Guts went though 40knots &#8211; D**n near f9.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nAll in all you all missed cracker &#8211; mind you there&#8217;s at least one Merlin out there with out a mast now, and I saw a Pico with no stick being towed itn too, but that might have been delibarate.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nTom, Batten nostril, Griffiths<br />\r\n<br />\r\n*under powered overweight, kiteless, bathtub for OAP\'s capsizing one of these is quite challenge.<br />\r\n<br />\r\n','http://www.cyc.co.uk/','','Chichester, winter, series, snowflake, gale, force 7, blow, rs400','2005-11-07 21:17:16'),(163,7,'Bill and Ted',3,'strange things are afoot at the circle k.','http://','','','2005-11-15 22:34:49'),(164,7,'Dark Star Bomb',3,'I explode therfore I am','http://','','','2005-11-15 23:00:23'),(165,7,'Mint Royal',3,'I am the Sexiest man in jamaica, and I will never grow hold','http://','','','2005-11-15 23:00:33'),(166,7,'Unknown',3,'If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, its possible you haven\'t grasped the seriousness of the situation','http://','','','2005-11-15 23:00:39'),(167,7,'The Cat, Red Dwarf',3,'\"Fish!\", \"todays fish is trout a la creme, enjoy your meal\". \"Fish!\"','http://','','','2005-11-15 23:03:07'),(168,7,'Susan Ivanova',3,'No Boom today, Boom tommorow','http://','','','2005-11-15 23:05:07'),(169,7,'Unknown',3,'Only Robinson Cruiso could get all this done by friday','http://','','','2005-11-15 23:06:13'),(170,7,'Not the Prisoner',3,'I\'m pink therfore I\'m spam','http://','','','2005-11-15 23:07:45'),(173,3,'WiFi and CAMRA.',3,'<p><img src=\"http://www.camra.org.uk/img/right-panel/Thoughtful.jpg\" align=\"right\">WiFi obviously stands for \"Wireless Fidelity\" and CAMRA, the infamous Campaign For Real Ale. The two appear to me completely incompatible, the sort of pubs that I like are the ones that serve good beer. Ok I\'m not a connoisseur, but reasonable beer is a must. Unfortunately the WiFi pubs or Brighton don\'t have decent beer. Here\'s a summary:</p>\r\n<p><img src=\"images/icons/1.png\">Heist - lovely pub, nice staff PierToPier.net pub. Oh sorry its trendy \"Bar\". <b>Gas Tap Tetleys</b> oh and its not worked for weeks.</p>\r\n<p><img src=\"images/icons/1.png\">Audio (well Above Audio) open to 1am, before the changes, cocktails, comfy, loads of subtly hidden plugs for your PSU - Beer Lousy - <b>Gas Tap John Smiths</b></p>\r\nThe Loose connection pubs don\'t stack up too good either.\r\nNear me are the:\r\n\r\n<p><img src=\"images/icons/1.png\"> <img src=\"content/pic/slowelectron.jpg\" align=\"left\">Open House - Art work sofas, garden and on my street and at last beer not piss, its Harveys Sussex Bitter - can they look after it can they f**k poor at best and seen them run out of it mid week for no good reason. Oh and this is the <b>Headquarters</b> of the Zel chain...</p>\r\n<p><img src=\"images/icons/1.png\"> Hare and hounds, seems to have gone up market recently, fights seem to happen across the road at circus circus these days. Firstly they make the geek very welcome by hoards of bad laminated signs informing you that if your use their electricity you have to pay - man they need photoshop. Is the beer drinkable - nope.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>A hundred yards either way from the Hare and Hounds is good beer - the Rosehill and the Cobbler\'s Thumb. The Cobbler\'s I\'m particularly fond of. They cheat and get the harveys in direct from the brewery, I believe, not an intermediary. Oh and the musics good Unfortunately I have to rant offline like now...</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Other WiFi pubs in Brighton include Grand Central, naaaa, and its up a hill Black Lyon (don\'t know). If you go far enough its not so bad the Sidewinder was perfectly drinkable last time I was in there, the Earth and Stars too. Last time I was in there I was proxy bidding due to some friend\'s who live near by\'s NTL connection being out. What is it with NTL and Sunday? Mine used to die every Sunday too. </p>','http://www.camra.org.uk','','camra, cats, piss, bad beer, pub, naff','2005-12-06 22:13:06'),(174,7,'Lab tech',3,'I prefer to think of my self as a \"Quantum Mechanic\" - Tom (Lab Technician)','http://','','','2005-12-10 09:21:06'),(176,6,'bytes_readable',3,'Simple PHP fucntion that turns a number in octets (normal 8 bit bytes) iton a human readable number for convenient display.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nWorks well with the numbers from a radius accounting table, originally writen for piertopier.net<br />\r\n<br />\r\n<b>USAGE</b><br />\r\njust go:<br />\r\n<span class=\"code\">bytes_readable(<i>number</i>);</span><br />\r\n<br>\n<div class=\"code\"><p>&lt;?php&nbsp;<br />\r\n//&nbsp;simple&nbsp;function&nbsp;to&nbsp;convert&nbsp;bytes&nbsp;to&nbsp;readable&nbsp;a&nbsp;readable&nbsp;format<br />\r\n//&nbsp;tom&nbsp;2005<br />\r\nfunction&nbsp;bytes_readable($bytes)<br />\r\n{&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;switch&nbsp;($bytes)&nbsp;{<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;case&nbsp;($bytes&nbsp;&lt;&nbsp;1024):<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$read_bytes=$bytes;&nbsp;$abv=\'b\';<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;break;<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;case&nbsp;($bytes&nbsp;&lt;&nbsp;1048576):<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$read_bytes=round($bytes/1024);&nbsp;$abv=\'k\';<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;break;<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;case&nbsp;($bytes&nbsp;&lt;&nbsp;1073741824):<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$read_bytes=round($bytes/1048576);&nbsp;$abv=\'M\';<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;break;<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;case&nbsp;($bytes&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;1073741824):<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$read_bytes=round($bytes/1073741824);&nbsp;$abv=\'g\';<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;break;&nbsp;<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<br />\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;return&nbsp;($read_bytes.$abv);<br />\r\n}<br />\r\n?&gt;</p></div>','http://www.piertopier.net','','bytes, k, g, M, converter, bit, octet, human, readble','2005-12-11 12:34:37'),(177,3,'CCIE HIPPIE',3,'<a href=\"content.php?Cat=1&Res=178.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"content/pic/devenv.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"1\"></a>\r\n<p>I\'ve been working on loads of PierToPier.net stuff. Mostly routed wireless networks. I member when i was abnormal person with \"a\" computer. At some point in my life it seems my life has changed so that now I need a desk like the one on the right. Full details of what all that crap is can be found by clicking the picture.</p>\r\n<p>Much of the work has involved floundering around wildly in the dark, using WDS links to make wireless access points repeat them selves. No it doesn\'t work. Well to be fair it sometimes works.</p>\r\n<p>On of the main problems turned out to be a \"Bridge Loop\". As you usually when I get stuck I email Dave (CCIE#3590), he\'s smart. Falls over on the way to the pub sometimes but has a really top class brain. He tells me that what I thought was happening was a bridge loop. Access point 1 sends out data, it can see 2 other access points. There all WDS bridges, so thy receive the data and send it about again to the 2 access points that they can see. We physicists call this a chain reaction similar to what happens in a nuke.</p>\r\n<p>I recon I owe him beer, he disagrees. All these emails ended up with me doing something particularly stupid. He put me right so I sent him an mail explaining that he has to patronize me a bit \'cos his email Signature says \"<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_Career_Certifications#Expert-level_certifications:_Cisco_Certified_Internetwork_Expert\" target=\"_blank\" >CCIE</a>\" where as mine says \"<a href=\"http://www.oceanhippie.org\">Hippie</a>\".</p>\r\n<p> Well I thought it was funny - its certainly accurate.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<i>Tom</p>','http://www.oceanhippie.net/wiki/','','openwrt, pebble, linux, acess, point, WDS','2006-02-16 18:24:31'),(178,1,'PierToPier.net Development Environment',3,'Belive it or not I had to tidy my room to fit all the junk in that was needed.<img src=\"content/pic/bigDevEnv.jpg\" align=\"right\">\r\n<h3>key:</h3>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li>Baddly modded case on anchient desktop, bits of this came out of a 386, Athlon 1.3 running windows and Linux. Famous for possilby being the only > 1 gig PC with a 5.25 inch drive.<br />\r\n<li>\"Server\" piertopier\'s new splash and radius server - thown out by Varndean College<br />\r\n<li>12 port 10 base swich with the fan out of a flymo, \"I knew it would come in handy\".\r\n<li>Prism 2 wifi card, with updated firmware. Turns laptop into wireless repeater\r\n<li>Old laptop Running Windows and netstumbler in vain attempt to keep an eye on what is going on. Equiped with an orinoco silver card, second hand off ebay, flashed gold card firmware.  \r\n<li>Main laptop - windows still half broken, but linux works, laptop bought off ebay, cheap, bulges under monitor are where internal wikfi anntennas don\'t really fit. Contains atheros wifi card borrowed off moving-edge.\r\n<li>19\" monitor bought to play counter strike, those where the days, currently showing breezy badger isntaller.\r\n<li>Linksys access point off ebay, oringinal firmware removed and repalced with custom piertopier net firwmare. \"Rusty 0.2\"\r\n<li>4 gig hard disk contains linux, exact lineage unknown.\r\n<li>KVM swich allows more confusion as to which pc your sshed into.\r\n<li>PC lubricant, an empty tin of Badger\'s Tangle foot an some Fursty Ferret bottles (Gribble inn good....)\r\n<li>Heatsink I found while I was plugging radius server in.\r\n<li>Soundcard, removed from radius server. Probalby should have gone sraight in the bin.\r\n<li>Cisco Sticker, yeah right, like I can afford cisco kit (the linksys doesn\'t count). This sticker is actaully a left over from the Ron Dom Texel cat race in Holland and not Geek Related at all.\r\n</ol>\r\n<p>The total processing power of that lot combined is less than a new PC! Thats incuding the 125Mhz precessor in the Access point - yep its a Linksys version 1.1. 2.4Ghz. Total.</p>\r\n<p>Not shown in the picture is the contents of my lounge, which contains the server running this, another old Derelict. Another 2 wireless access points, an old PC acting as an access point a HP laserjet printer (the oringinal laserjet 1) and a 5 foot long anntenna. </p>','http://www.piertopier.net','','beer, radius, sad, geek','2006-03-12 19:19:56'),(179,3,'Teenagers',3,'<img src=\"geek.jpg\" align=\"right\">Apparently I have been acedentally involved with the elections to the Varndean College SU. Sad b*****s. Some of the particuly geeky scince students are presumably standing for election.<br />\r\nDo not on any account vote for people like this!<br />\r\n','http://www.varndean.ac.uk','','sad , stupid, idiot','2006-05-04 11:22:00'),(180,3,'God Bless Freecycle',3,'I recently got introduced to free cycle, basically to save people like me looking dodgy poking arround in skips, its a email mailing list that allows people to give away stuff they don\'t want Its cheaper than a skip, and eco friendly. You\'d be amaised the thinks people don\'t want, and do want. I\'ve managed to acuire a 7ft surfboard. Yay!, and a digital camera (had to fix it) and several rather usefull bits of wifi gear.<br />\r\nI\'ve aslo managed to fob off a lot of old junk, the remains of a sterio, lots of PC junk. Someone even wanted a early 486 board with 30 (32?) sims and no processor...... Wierd. Still it got rid of it.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nBig thank you to the Surboard lady, cant wait for some waves.','http://www.freecycle.org','','free, eco, frinedly, freecycle, surfboard, brighton','2006-05-11 14:23:41'),(181,2,'Stupid',6,'Here\'s some pictures of me being stupid, DO NOT TRY THIS at home. Please remember to tie a knot in your pyjarmers, I14 are really made for 2. Oh and yes I did put the kite up it was scary. Not as scarry as getting it back down. Sorry about the quality, and yes my hair is suposed to be that colour','http://www.international14.org','side','Sh, single, handed, i14, fourteen, idiot, fool, moron, bad,idea, death carnage','2006-05-12 18:03:52'),(182,2,'',2,'Wheeeee look no crew.','quarter','181',NULL,'2006-05-12 18:07:04'),(183,2,'',2,'','side','181',NULL,'2006-05-12 18:07:54'),(184,2,'',2,'','poor','181',NULL,'2006-05-12 18:08:07'),(185,2,'',2,'','rear','181',NULL,'2006-05-12 18:08:18'),(186,1,'Rusty',6,'It\'s still working fine, this is one of PierToPier\'s Wireless Nodes. This ones lives in a hut on Brighton Beach. Sea air\'s good for your well it aint good for PC\'s','http://www.piertopier.net','3','rust, beach, pier, piertopier.net, meshap, brighton, corrossion','2006-05-12 18:32:36'),(187,1,'',2,'This corners the worst. See the nice gold connector for the antenna.','3','186',NULL,'2006-05-12 18:33:36'),(188,1,'',2,'','1','186',NULL,'2006-05-12 18:33:51'),(189,1,'',2,'','2','186',NULL,'2006-05-12 18:33:56'),(190,1,'',2,'','4','186',NULL,'2006-05-12 18:34:02'),(191,1,'',2,'','5','186',NULL,'2006-05-12 18:34:07'),(192,3,'Pictures',3,'I\'ve fianally got round to uploading some pictures, some of me being <a href=\"gal.php?gal=181\">Stupid</a>, by stupid I mean going out sailing in an international 14 single handed. I\'ve done this a couple of times. Its fun in petrified sort of way. I can only advise people NOT to do it though, as you can\'t right an old 14 on your own (trust me). These pictures were duing a race last summer, I was diquaified for not haveing a crew. Apparently the ISAF doesn\'t recognise invisible friends. They do not include any of me with the kite up.... pitty the look on my face with an extra 25 sqm out the front would have curdled milk.<br />\r\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"gal.php?gal=181\"><img align=\"center\" src=\"content/pic/gal/Stupid/quarter.jpg\" border=\"1\"></a></div><br />\r\nThe other pictures are of a VERY <a href=\"gal.php?gal=186\">rusty PC</a>, this is currently still working, its in a hut on the beach proving people with internet.<br />\r\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"gal.php?gal=186\"><img align=\"center\" src=\"content/pic/gal/Rusty/3.jpg\" border=\"1\"></a></div>','http://','','','2006-05-13 13:22:01'),(193,2,'Cogito Ergo I14',3,'This was oringinaly done as a follow up for a quote I saw on the <a href=\"http://www.sailinganarchy.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sailing Anarchy</a> forums. The quote was.<br />\r\n<div class=\"blog\" align=\"center\"> <strong><em>\"Cogito Ergo I14\"</em></strong><br />\r\n<img src=\"content/pic/thinkerany2.gif\" border=\"1\"><br />\r\nor for the un-enlighented.<br />\r\n\"I think therefore I Fourteen.\" <br />\r\n<br />\r\nBit of a no brainer</div><br />\r\n','http://www.sailinganarchy.com','','latin,14, anarchy','2006-05-15 14:47:30'),(194,1,'The Great Errection',6,'This is the raising of the large anntenna at the Glade Festival. Part of one of PierToPier.net\'s Projects.','http://www.flickr.com/photos/bafjohnson/','Guam','Glade, Festival, Antenna, errection','2006-07-10 17:51:39'),(195,1,'',2,'Chris Adjusts the Tackle. While I grasp the pole.','tackle','194',NULL,'2006-07-10 17:53:06'),(201,1,'',2,'Rising to the Occation','GoingUp','194',NULL,'2006-07-10 18:50:58'),(196,1,'',2,'Looking Rather like a famous American statue, me Chris and Stu put the pole in place.','Guam','194',NULL,'2006-07-10 17:56:30'),(197,1,'',2,'John holds the pole while Chris intructs him to dress left or right.','backpole','194',NULL,'2006-07-10 17:57:19'),(198,1,'',2,'The end result (please excues the quality it was taken with my phone not Ben\'s SLR). A 15db omni on 16 foot scafpole, in the background is a portacabin with a 26db dish and another onmi. Bechind is the additional scaff required to bring power to the portacabin.','end','194',NULL,'2006-07-10 18:00:35'),(199,1,'',2,'Maybe i shouldn\'t have called this Gallery \"The Great Errection\"','dodgy','194',NULL,'2006-07-10 18:44:31'),(200,1,'',2,'Not only does the finished product make a kick ass antenna mount but it its great for pole dancing too.','dance','194',NULL,'2006-07-10 18:45:23'),(202,3,'Glade',3,'I\'ve been buisy, <a href=\"http://www.piertopier.net\" target=\"_blank\">PierToPier.net</a> has been very buisy. After a torrent of troubles with Locust World MeshAP on wifi net on the beach. We rather hurredly rushed my Pebble based system called \"<a href=\"http://wiki.piertopier.net/index.php/Muddy\" target=\"_blank\">Muddy</a>\" into service.<br />\r\n<div ailgn=\"center\"><IMG SRC=\"content/pic/gal/The%20Great%20Errection/tackle.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\"></div><br />\r\nThis was being build ready for the Glade Festival. And is working well in both locations. I\'m not saying that there  haven\'t been issues, bug, glitches and moments of complete confuion. There have. But basically the system works.<br />\r\nIts inter-operable with correctly setup Linksys WRT54GL access points running my verions of OpenWRT \"<a href=\"http://wiki.piertopier.net/index.php/P2POpenWRT_Firmware\" target=\"_blank\">Rusty</a>\"<br />\r\nIt nice to see all the data flowing in from the beach. see <a href=\"http://stats.piertopier.net\" target=\"_blank\"> The piertopier stats System</a> I\'ve Writern','http://wiki.piertopier.net','','Firmaware, muddy, Glade, festival, pebble, linux, salty, rusty, openWRT','2006-07-11 07:52:17'),(203,3,'Glade a success',3,'<img src=\"content/pic/wifihutsmall.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Glade was a sucess, PierToPier.net\'s WiFi network covered most of the site, and worked pretty much fawlessly. We\'re dead chuffed.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nFor those of you who are itnerested in my \"muddy linux\" wirless stuff I will patch in all I learned at Glade and put out another source soon.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nMeanwhile, its here:<br />\r\n<a href=\"http://wiki.piertopier.net/index.php/Muddy\" target=\"_blank\">PierToPier.net\'s Wiki Page for Muddy\"</a><br />\r\n`<br />\r\nTom<br />\r\n<br />\r\n<br />','http://www.gladefestival.com/home.html','','Glade, Muddy, outdorr, festival Wireless','2006-07-17 14:53:09'),(206,3,'Back when my boat was young',3,'<p>This is the 1991 international 14 supercup. According to rummor and other quality info my boat I14 GBR err K 1269 (light blue, with 10 on the bow) would have been 2. Its now 19 years old.</p>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"centre\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/Aq6ZSmaH8pg\"></param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/Aq6ZSmaH8pg\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"></embed></object></p>\r\n\r\n<p>This video originates from <a href=\"http://www.malcolmdonald.com/\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.malcolmdonald.com/</a> othe vids here allow you to see my boat with a very illegal looking rudder gantry.</P>\r\n\r\n','http://www.malcolmdonald.com/','','senta i14 1269 international 14 ','2007-02-20 19:16:05'),(211,2,'Why Dinghy Courses Matter',3,'The position you come in a race is subject to several factors, 2 similar, I.E. same class boats finishing position is a function of:\r\n<img src=\"content/pic/tssw.png\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\">\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Order at the start - who got away first has an advantage.</li>\r\n<li>Boat handling - Especially in a Hobie, good tacks are very important.</li>\r\n<li>Tactics - More wind correct tide and positioning against other boats.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<br />\r\nThe condition of you boat, and the top speed you can sail it come into it too, but are unimportant compared to the above. You note last years Brighton SC cat winner has a very dilapidated and patched 16.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nPassing is also an issue. A competent helm can prevent even a slightly faster class overtaking him on a reach, keep up to stop them going above you and bear off on them to nick their wind if they\'re dumb enough to go go underneath and you can hold your position for ever.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nNo two boats of the same class should never swap places on a reach, so if we just raced to the marina (in Brighon our shore runs east west, with the marina to the east) in a southerly, then who ever starts first wins (assuming there\'s no massive difference in skill). The Race is over before it begins. This why they say a course should always have one of sort of each leg. E.G. the \"Olympic Course\" above.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nUpwind is a different matter, for starters windward legs are longer. Longer in time not distance. If we raced to the marina in an easterly. It would take twice as long as the reach did, as we\'d have to tack and sail slower. Races are won and lost on windward and Leeward legs. Considered the easterly marina race on an incoming tide, boat A starts on port tack heading out to sea, boat B, with brand new sails, carbon tiller extension etc. Heads off on starboard, towards the beach. Boat B has less tide pushing him along, his wind is disrupted by the Palace Pier. Bad choice and it gets worse, boat A can go right out to sea, tack once, and go to the marina \"banging the corners\". Boat be will have to tack twice, and if by some miracle he manages to keep up with boat A, boat a will approach the marina mark on Starboard and barge him out. You can\'t just block overtaking boats, there are plenty of opportunities to pass.This race is on!<br />\r\n<br />\r\nDownwind is similar, boat A decides, he was just lucky ofshore. Heads off out to sea again on the way back to the club. Boat B goes inshore out of the tide and into the flatter water, we\'ve got real race this time. I don\'t know which would win. More wind and more tide versus, less wind and less tide. Get this wrong and you\'ll know about it, and again its not easy to block. <br />\r\n<br />\r\nLets throw in different classes. (I know I\'m prejudiced, but bear with me). The modern boats, the tigers RS and I14, can point higher than the older classes such as lasers and Hobies and handle better. They also have spinnakers which allow them primarily to run deeper downwind with out slowing. Broadly speaking spinnakers can only be used on very board reaches (if there\'s any sort of breeze). So if we revisit example one, the long reach. The Hobie cat we know its hot on a reach, the RS and the Tiger\'s have to leave there kites down. Their handicap includes these sails for part of time. The lasers and 16, should have a field day.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nOn the example of an easterly, windward only course we should be closer matched, windward takes longer and therefore makes up for more of the handicap (theoretically). Also the course\'s long and doesn\'t require lots of maneuvers, the fact that the Hobies cam make a few long tacks  compensate for the pointing ability of the modern boats. I wouldn\'t like to call this one. A short course and I\'ll shift money on to the better handling boats.<br />\r\nDown wind\'s another story, the modern boats can gybe fast and run deep out of the tide and take the 16\'s to the cleaners. However spinnaker hoist and drops cost time, a lot, unless you\'ve got a good sharpender. Make this a short leeward leg and the advantage goes back the other way, the laser\'s and 16 sail off while the tiger\'s are trying to hoist and drop.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nHave you ever watched the WRC rally coverage\'s \"Virtual Spectator\"? Its where they record the cars speeds and superimpose them on the same bit of road, so you can see what they perform like against each other. If we do Tom\'s \"mental spectator\", on Simon and Roger, 2 equally skilled sailors, with equal age sails, equal luck and identical tack ticks in different classes. We have Tom\'s \"mental spectator\" running the handicaps against them in our head. and send them around a triangle and sausage. They start equal, as they head off up the beat Roger\'s 16\'s lead on handicap increases, till they tack. Roger drops back as the tack takes ages, however he claws back till they\'re equal at the top mark. Ok they both bear off perfectly onto the reach, Simon\'s RS drops back on virtual corrected time as he\'s got no kite and the 16\'s ballistic reaching kicks in. He catches up a little at the gybe mark, the 16\'s gybe takes a long time but he\'s still loosing out all the way to the start mark. The beat\'s the same as before, Roger holds the lead he got on the reach. When they round the windward mark on a sausage Its a very different story. His lead leaps up for 10 seconds as Penny Hoists the kite, the RS then eats massively into his lead, the gybes are similar this time, because the rs has to gybe the Kite. However Simon keeps reeling Roger in all the way to the finish, where they finish exactly the same on corrected time.Ok that\'s how its supposed to work., however chose a course with the wrong balance of legs and you decide the race before it starts.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nIn summary short courses benefit boats with good boat handling, and no spinnakers. Long courses benefit the older classes, and spinnaker boats. Beats are pretty even, but tactically important. Reaches benefit Hobies and Lasers on handicap but are meaningless for individual fleets. Runs benefit spinnaker boats and good tacticians.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nHow to really wreck a race.<br />\r\nThe worst course for good competition is what we get a lot of. The Rescue boat drops a bouy by the hut another out to sea. And one out towards Palace Pier.  Because of perspective the windward mark isn\'t far out to sea, where as the one towards Palace Pier is  miles away and the course is a squashed triangle. One of two things happen:<br />\r\n	<p align=\"center\">Either<br>\r\n<img src=\"content/pic/cockup.fla.png\" border=\"1\"></p>\r\nThe windward leg is not really windward, and Simon me and Steve sail straight up it while the others have to tack, we bear off towards the Pier, because the beat wasn\'t a beat and the triangle\'s elongated the wrong way, we blast off under kites. Gybe at Palace Pier, and form line astern practically close hauled back to the start mark. Crucifying every one on handicap.<br />\r\n	<p align=\"center\">Or<br>\r\n<img src=\"content/pic/cockup2.fla.png\" border=\"1\"></p>\r\nThe windward leg is a proper beat, but the triangle so elongated that the reaches are too tight for spinnakers and the 16\'s and lasers slaughter the modern designs.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nTo quote Kevin B****Y Wilson \"It was over before it began\"','http://www.brightonsc.org.uk','','Course, triangle, sausage, reach, beat, run, tactics, race, officer','2007-02-20 21:21:09'),(217,2,'',2,'In light winds its either sit somewhere awkward or stand somewhat nerviously.','quarter','214',NULL,'2007-05-12 17:18:17'),(218,2,'',2,'Its best to stand on the foredeck down wind in the light stuff, surupticiously \"pole dancing\" to keep the speed up.','poleDance','214',NULL,'2007-05-12 17:19:15'),(219,2,'',2,'Starting, behind a 400, no watch so used the bleeping from the 400 to get the start time.','simon','214',NULL,'2007-05-12 17:20:22'),(220,2,'',2,'Almost enough wind to sit on the side...','tw','214',NULL,'2007-05-12 17:20:56'),(221,2,'',2,'At last some wind! How its supossed to look.','wire','214',NULL,'2007-05-12 17:21:35'),(222,2,'',2,'Note the dodgy looking cap, came loose in a capsize shortly before this was taken. Didn\'t get it back on very straight.','wireClose','214',NULL,'2007-05-12 17:23:05'),(223,3,'TV Science',3,'<h3> Oh dear </h3>\r\n<p> I actually watched the BBC\'s panorama program on WiFi &quot;Science&quot; they called it.</P>\r\n<p> I already knew it was going to be on. Should have know better than to actually watch it. I had several e-mails in the run up to it, I used words like \"watts\", \"electron\" and \"quantum\" in the replies - all essential to the subject I would have thought. If this was a science program how come there was no actual science in it? I really did like the guy wandering around Norwich with a meter (what sort of meter was not mentioned a \"bullshit-ometer\"?) At one point it suddenly shot up and then dropped back again. Given he was waving it around and it was an analogue meter he could have been just flicking the needle, but most likely the muppet had a mobile in his pocket. Every now and again a mobile transmits to stay in contact with the base station. I\'m prepared to bet a large some of money the sudden spike on his Tricorder was his own phone.</p>\r\n<p>For those of you who don\'t understand radiation (Electro Magnetic). Its not just a matter of quantity. Playing loud music at high frequency and low -who cares doesn\'t matter. Not so with EM. Normal people, \"scientists\" or people who actually paid attention to GSCE physics will tell you that the higher frequency the more dangerous the radiation. The damage the BBC bangs on about in its <a href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6676129.stm\" target=\"blank\">placating store</a> when using a laptop on the beach doesn\'t come from \"sunlight\" just the Ultraviolet bit of it. The dangerous higher frequencies. Broadly speaking  its  frequencies higher than visible its bad for you. UV bad, X-ray worse Gamma scary etc. Fortunately 2.4Ghz WiFi is miles down the EM spectrum from the hazardous radiation. Seems a shame they forgot the science - I mean solid calculatable physics. Not half psychological tech scapegoat and no control experiments blaming one environmental factor without looking for alternative problems. Possible headaches from wearing chain mail hemet and breathing some lead based anti WiFi paint maybe. I note how <a href=\"http://www.badscience.net/?p=413\" target=\"_blank\">&pound;69.99 of electronic gizmo</a> can cure this. Its scientifically known as a &quot;placebo&quot;, or like the Pipes in star trek marked <em>GNDN</em> it&quot;<em><strong>goes nowhere does nothing</strong></em>&quot;. The one bit of controlled experiment science with the faraday cage room with the electro sensitive types in it, mysteriously had most of its results being analyzed. Given the test was could the subject tell whether the radio was on or off I can\'t see how the analysis could have taken long. The one bit they did have was 2/3rds of the time. In science its customary to quote findings in to the right number of significant figures. Assuming they followed this basic principal (bet they didn\'t) then they tried 3 time and she got it right twice. Pure Luck? I\'m sure actually there were more reading properly averaged and then dumb ed down, probably so the presenters could understand it. I translate 2/3rds as &quot;above half but not high enough for us to round it to 3/4&quot;. In reality I bet its lower than exactly 2/3rd or in realistic language just over half the time well with normal distribution. </p>\r\n<p>Panorama is going to have to do allot more than this to prove to anyone that there not a dumb as a big brother contestant (Jon Tickle excepted). Wave a tricorder, come up with impressive measure. I mean at least in star trek had techobable. A Physics A level student could do, in his head, the calc about a phone mast and a laptop assuming inverse square law applies (you see I mention <em>my</em> assumptions before I shoot off) . Then a 30 watt mobile transmitter at a long range will be weaker than a 0.1 watt transmitter right by the wifi-fo-fumeter/tricorder/tripeometer they were waving with grave abandon.</p>\r\n<p>If the presenters of Panorama seriously believed in this then why aren\'t <em>they</em> wearing tinfoil helmets and electronic horse manure pendants? I\'m sure the presenters are at home googling away on their wifi laptops, with there mobiles alternately clamped to their heads or in their trouser pockets, gently resting against their balls. It almost a pity the microwaves are harmless. It I\'d stop \'em breeding.</p>\r\n','http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6676129.stm','Panorama, BBC, tosh, horse manure','Panorama, BBC, tosh, horse manure','2007-05-22 16:21:06'),(224,1,'dd-wrt',5,'Router Firmware for Linksys wrt54G and others.','http://www.dd-wrt.com','2',NULL,'2007-06-01 19:00:33'),(225,3,'Southcombe Farm',5,'Paul\'s Cottage','http://www.southcombe.net','3',NULL,'2007-06-01 19:02:54'),(226,2,'RS600',5,'RS 600 Dinghy','http://www.rssailing.com/fleets.asp?fleet=RS600','2',NULL,'2007-06-02 09:42:47'),(227,3,'Bug me not',5,'God I hate registering for pointless websites, thanks to bug me not you don\'t have too. ','http://www.bugmenot.com/','3',NULL,'2007-06-02 09:44:52'),(228,3,'Paddle Round the Pier',3,'Paddle Round the Pier, Brighton\\\'s seafront charity event is this weekend, (7th/8th July). This year its bigger and spread over 2 days. <br />\r\nTickets for the party are going fast, get them from Adam at Brighton Watersports on the seafront.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nOther events include 18ft skate boards, canoe races, scooter challenge, \\\"paddle somthing unusual\\\" and the mass Paddle.','http://www.paddleroundthepier.com','','surf, kayak, canoe, paddle, pier','2007-07-04 09:35:21'),(229,3,'Wanted',3,'Passage to the Caribbean, NARC or even ARC. Will accept other destinations if they sound warm and sunny. Can sail navigate get allong with people very well. Do electronics, computers websites etc.<br />\r\n3 atlantic crossing previosuly, and a Pacific Crossing.<br />\r\n<br />\r\n<a href=\"http://www.oceanhippie.org\">Previous travels are here</a><br />\r\n<br />\r\n','http://www.oceanhippie.org','','arc, atlantic, rally, crusiers, not, narc','2007-09-12 15:39:46'),(231,8,'Atlantic',3,'<h3>The Atlantic, first ocean!</h3>\r\n        <p>The Atlantic crossing story, abbreviated version. Originally written \r\n          about 2 or three days after arriving St Lucia in 1998.</p>\r\n  <p><img src=\"content/pic/trip1/manfish.jpg\" alt=\"Man or Fish? (manfish.jpg)\" align=\"left\"> The Weather is - well \r\n                I\'m not sure I have words that can describe how much better it \r\n                is than what I am used to, well here\'s an example one fine day \r\n                in the middle of the night it was blowing force 7, possibly force \r\n                8 at times and I was wearing oilies - and wait for it a T-shirt \r\n                underneath. The crossing was uneventful, we tore about 6 inches \r\n                of spinnaker lost one glass and broke a mug. The only other source \r\n                of tired was looking out to sea. We saw 1 lot of dolphins 2 ships, \r\n                about five yachts and Dorado (fish) - and damn fine they tasted \r\n                to, Sam also harvested the automatic fish (flying), the only other \r\n                things we saw were waves water sky and the boat - I spy wasn\'t \r\n                much fun. Instead of I spy we played Just a minute which proved \r\n                raucous to say the least, Simon was very good at the technical \r\n                stuff like repetition, I tended towards the more tenuous bits \r\n                of deviation. We took 23 days to do the crossing, we were first \r\n                Ferro-cement boat, which we are justly proud of, some among are \r\n                more pessimistic rivals point out that we were also last ferro \r\n                boat.</p>\r\n               \r\n        <p>If you get this quickly then email me back I will check \r\n          to see before we leave here in early Jan. Sam\'s Mum and Sister are coming \r\n          out as is Penny, for Christmas. They are land lubbers mostly and will \r\n          probably find reasons for me to be on land and spending money which \r\n          is a drawback. </p>\r\n        <p> The logged distance was 2840 I think, there is some confusion \r\n          as the log forgot a couple of times and also after 999.9 it reverts \r\n          to 0 Nautical miles that is. </p>\r\n        <p> This email is long cos I\'m writing it on Sam\'s coal fired \r\n          lap top, a sterling piece of Victorian engineering also down loads weather \r\n          maps from AM radio which is nice when it works (not often). </p>\r\n        <p> I think I should explain automatic fish at this point, \r\n          they jump out of the water usually in the middle of the night and fly \r\n          up to about 100 yards, quite impressively dodging waves etc. presumably \r\n          to escape other fish with horrible nasty pointy teeth. This is a wonderful \r\n          defense mechanism, provided of course some malicious ocean hippie hasn\'t \r\n          filled that particular bit of ocean with 37 foot of ferro cement sail \r\n          yacht. In the event that this happens they find them selves lying on \r\n          the deck looking very surprised, then come morning the skipper picks \r\n          \'em up and fries them for breakfast. </p>\r\n        <p> I haven\'t had the opportunity to do much swimming as \r\n          yet we only got the chance to swim once on the way across, the rest \r\n          of the crew had to force me to get out of the water, they wanted to \r\n          start the engine, I was there for the week. </p>\r\n        <p> Speaking of engines we only motored 21 hours, not bad \r\n          out of over 3 weeks, Sam\'s Wind generator and solar panel were enough \r\n          to run lights and instruments.</p>\r\n        <p> St Lucia. is really gorgeous, its a mountainous volcanic \r\n          island complete covered in rain forest, so far I haven\'t been bitten \r\n          by any mosies, being in about helps they don\'t like salt, basically \r\n          I\'m not coming back!</p>\r\n\r\n','http://www.worldcruising.com/arc/','1','rodney, bay, st, lucia, gran, canaria','2007-09-15 16:44:19'),(232,8,'SV Ramprasad',5,'Sam\'s ferrocement yacht, I first saw this as an empty shell. watched it develop, helped launch it. Then crewed it for its first Atlantic Crossing.','http://homepages.rya-online.net/sacoles/','3',NULL,'2007-09-15 17:03:12'),(233,8,'Caribbean',3,' <h3>News From Panama and the Caribbean</h3>\r\n<img src=\"content/pic/trip1/canal.jpg\" alt=\"Panama canal, gates at Gatun closeing (canal.jpg))\" align=\"left\"> \r\n  <p> As you read I\'m hitching around the world (well maybe \r\n    not all the way, I\'m not that rich most of my money has gone to the \r\n    club coffers via the bar), I\'m currently sailing on  \r\n    Örnen, a 56ft Swedish shrimp trawler, luxury on water. It comes \r\n    equipped with Fridge, Freezer, watermaker, and 4000Nm range under engine! \r\n    A far cry from the Chichester winter series I was used to. I have now \r\n    been out 5 months, 3 and a half with Sam Coles, and numerous club members \r\n    on Ramprsad.The Atlantic crossing was a bit of an adventure, well not \r\n    nearly as much of and adventure as Simon made out in his last Gybe Sheet \r\n    article. In fact we tore 6 Inches of spinnaker, lost 1 plastic glass \r\n    overboard and broke 1 mug, witch are environmental ex commodore threw \r\n    overboard in a fit of madness. Other than that the Atlantic was mostly \r\n    very pleasant, a lot warmer than Brighton beach, and aside from the \r\n    occasional squall the scariest thing that happened was the arrival af \r\n    Flying Fish very close in the middle of the night!</p>\r\n  <p>Since parting with Simon in St Lucia (which I\'m sure you \r\n    have heard about time and time again) I sailed with Sam to Martinique \r\n    (France with palm trees), St Vincent, Bequia, Tobago Cays (no where \r\n    near Tobago), Cariacou, Grenada, then Trinidad for the Carnival an experience \r\n    not to be missed, especially with Simeon whispering \"What use is a soft \r\n    Banana\" in your ear all the time nice girls in impressive costumes walked \r\n    passed. The sounds and lack of sleep from the Carnival will haunt me \r\n    for years to come. After Trinidad I joined Örnen, more of a ship than a Yacht, and sailed with a mixed crew \r\n    of English and Swedes and a Brazilian who spoke no common language and \r\n    had got to Trinidad with the expectation that they spoke Portuguese \r\n    there, to Isla Margarita Venezuela. Found Rum at less than a pound a \r\n    bottle, and their was much rejoicing. Shed some crew, and gained a Dane \r\n    (Mia \"The Great Danish\"). Moved on to Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles) \r\n    and met some previous crew or Örnen who\'d married locals and were very surprised when the boat they\'d travelled \r\n    to Bonaire on anchored out side one of them\'s kitchen window! The other \r\n    one had got married on the foredeck, there was also a picture of the \r\n    boat and the original crew (Örnen \r\n    is on its third trip round the world) in one of the bars, we had to \r\n    bring it down and polish it! Well and have some beers too. </p>\r\n  <p>After Bonaire we went to Curacao, then on to Cartegena \r\n    Columbia , the coffee was great, and apart from hearing gunfire and \r\n    having the dinghy (and the big outboard stolen), it was really a nice \r\n    place friendly helpful people and ciggies 1 pound for 200. Our next \r\n    stop was the San Blas Islands, the most unspoiled spot so far, the population \r\n    is entirely native Americans, all living in huts with no water or electricity, \r\n    fishing and travelling around in dugout canoes (don\'t try them they\'re \r\n    well unstable). </p>\r\n  <p>All beautiful coral islands, none bigger than 0.5 miles \r\n    square. The most beautiful place I\'ve ever seen. Now in Panama having \r\n    been through the canal, wow, next stop The Galapagos Islands then the \r\n    Marquesas, French Polynesia and Oz.</p>','','1','Panama, canal, Ornen, Trinidad, bonaire, ','2007-09-15 17:40:57'),(234,8,'Pacific',3,'<h2>There\'s are cards in the post......</h2>\r\n       <h3>News since \r\n          Panama, that\'s where the article I wrote for the Gybe sheet came from. </h3>\r\n        <p>Well we left \r\n          Panama with 6 people on board, 2 English 2 Swedish 1 Assize and a yank. \r\n          We then sailed to Galapagos, or tried too. Well the wind was light and \r\n          the current was against us.... And the Engine died. More precisely the \r\n          greasers on the prop shaft failed and the added friction on the prop \r\n          shaft caused the clutch to slip.</p>\r\n        <p> So it took \r\n          23 days to get there, we spent a week and a half floating backwards \r\n          and forwards in amongst the islands... We had exactly the same view \r\n          for 3 days. Abba the cat, a stray kitten we acquired very young in Panama, \r\n          didn\'t seem to mind and Me and Börje had a crate of litter bottles of \r\n          \"Ron Cortez\" some appalling (but 40%) Panamanian swill. In an attempt \r\n          to make the boat go faster we heroically drank the lot and 3 crates \r\n          of beer.</p>\r\n       <p> <img src=\"content/pic/trip1/neptune.jpg\" alt=\"Neptune Visites on the Equator (Neptune.jpg)\" align=\"right\">\r\n           The \r\n              equator runs amongst the Islands of the Galapagos, as we passed \r\n              it the Bottle of Ron Magellan given too us by a customs agent and \r\n              mechanic in Columbia for just this purpose, Neptune then Rose from \r\n              the depths of the Engine room (presumably he got in through the \r\n              leaky cooling pipes on the engine). On the other hand it might not \r\n              have been Neptune, it could have been the Skipper with a mop head \r\n              over his fact and Beribboned T-shirt & Jeans. Neptune and his assistant \r\n              (B******d) anointed us all with a freshly scooped bucket of Pacific \r\n              Ocean. What a perfect occasion this would have been for a video \r\n              camera.... Unfortunately I didn\'t get round to fixing the skippers \r\n              broken one for 3 more days, by which time we had floated back over \r\n              the equator again.</P>\r\n          \r\n        <p>We eventually \r\n          arrived in Puerto Ayoro, Santa Cruz, Galapagos Ecuador, and heroically \r\n          struggled manfully with the Dinghy (which will only stay pumped up for \r\n          about 3 minutes) and went to the Pub. Roz (Auzzie) who was not used \r\n          to boats, especially for 3 weeks, found that the ground seemed to be \r\n          moving around quite a lot. The beer was cheap the food good and cheap \r\n          and a great time was had by all, clambering down lava tubes, visiting \r\n          the giant turtles/tortoises. I never did work out which. However the \r\n          skipper was tired after an energetic morning chasing turtles with a \r\n          top speed of .5MPH so he decided to sit down, the environmentalists \r\n          amongst you will be horrified to hear that he actually sat on a tortoise/turtle.\r\n        <p> \r\n        <p> The other Englishman \r\n          was forced to fly back to Blighty, to take his family on holiday...... \r\n          Oh what a life, 3.5 Months on Örnen then go home for a holiday. The five of us who remained headed for the \r\n          Marquesas, at warp speed, it only took us 25.5 days to get there, a \r\n          distance of 3050Nm the trip to Galapagos was only be about 850!!!</p>\r\n        <div class=\"blog\">\r\n        THE GALAPAGOS SONG by Roslyn \r\n        Woowar (Woodward) <br>\r\nTo the Tune of \"Everybody\'s Talking at Me\" <br>\r\n<br>\r\n<img src=\"content/pic/trip1/turtlerider.jpg\" alt=\"tom on a turtle. turtlerider.jpg\" align=\"right\">Coastguard\'s looking at us, <br>\r\nWondering what the hell were doin\', <br>\r\nEver morning wake up Knowin\', <br>\r\nWe aint made it nowhere, <br>\r\nJust back and forth and in a straight line, <br>\r\nWe\'re goin\' where the winds are blowin\'<br>\r\nRound and round with map in hand, <br>\r\n\"Oh Tom\" they say \"When are we Goin\' to see those turtles walk the land\",<br>\r\nTogether on Örnen we\'ll keep afloatin\', <br>\r\nHeadin\' to Galapagos that\'s our plan. <br>\r\n\"Oh Tom, How much further\",<br>\r\nFor the crew of Örnen </a> that\'s their \r\n        chant. <br>\r\n        </div>\r\n        <p>We arrived, \r\n          with a grown up cat, equipped with only the highest quality Black volcanic \r\n          cat sand, in Hiva Oa, the most expensive place on earth, breathtakingly \r\n          beautiful, but definitely look but don\'t touch. We went for a walk it \r\n          was all we could afford. We legged it off to Tahiti ASAP, none of can \r\n          afford a place that does beer at $5.5us a beer and washing up liquid \r\n          at $12.</p>\r\n        <p> We stopped \r\n          at Apataki atoll to do some repairs, precision readjustment of the clutch \r\n          with a 3lb lump hammer and a 3foot crowbar. It works now! Thanks to \r\n          my skilful application of brute force and Ignorance.</p>\r\n        <p> Apataki was \r\n          so beautiful that I sat on the cross trees and videoed our departure, \r\n          with tide rips fish traps sun and palm trees. We arrived at Tahiti, \r\n          and couldn\'t check in properly because the Customs and Immigration keep \r\n          hours where by Customs closes before Immigration opens and you have \r\n          to go to Immigration first! Idiots, in he end we didn\'t bother. Tahitian \r\n          people were great, but the bureaucrats and French have ruined it, my \r\n          advice skip French Polynesia (or only go there to band the bomb demos) \r\n          head straight for Raratonga, Cook Islands, they know the Rugby scores, \r\n          the harbour master comes to you to check you in, the Islands is beautiful, \r\n          English speaking and very friendly. The beer is better and half the \r\n          price. Mopeds are reasonably priced and they give you Cook Islands driving \r\n          licences for them even if your English one doesn\'t let you drive motor \r\n          bikes. Happy hour tonight then of we go again to Tonga, Oh and In case \r\n          your curious I only fell off the Moped once. I hear even graham is asking \r\n          about me, I assume the bar profits are down.</p>\r\n  \r\n          <p>I\'m about 20 Degrees south \r\n            Latitude, in the depths of winter... Not that I mind too much. Happy \r\n            Hamster Hunting, don\'t get crushed and mashed. Tom </p>','','1','raratonga, cook, island, polynesia, galapagos, turtle, hiva oa','2007-09-15 17:47:47'),(235,8,'Tonga',3,'<h3>Tonga \'n\' Stuff</h3>\r\nHere I am in sunny Tonga, sitting \r\n  here trying to make my letter as <blink>impressive</blink>\r\n  as possible.\r\n  <p>We arrived \r\n    this morning, Monday the 25th or Sunday the 24th depending on which \r\n    side of the date line your on, in the Kingdom of Tonga. I am currently \r\n    confused as<img src=\"content/pic/trip1/king.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"250\" align=\"right\"> to which day it is and which day it is in England, or Sweden for that \r\n    matter. This is a lousy attempt at HTMLing a letter. Htmling is probably \r\n    not a proper English word but who gives! Tonga \r\n    appears to have a population of 50% officials who speak English in such \r\n    an appalling accent that I cannot describe it let alone understand it \r\n    the Skipper and Börje (both Swedish ) seem to be having even more trouble. \r\n    As officials go I suppose there not to bad..... they came to the boat, \r\n    all 4 of them, we didn\'t have to got too them, something I suppose we \r\n    should be thankful for. We are at the main ship wharf in Nuka Loafa \r\n    or some such place. All the names in the pacific islands are spelt in \r\n    English as they sound, usually they either don\'t sound like they\'re \r\n    spelt or they\'re spelt several different ways just to confuse you average \r\n    cixelsyd (dyslexic) ocean hippie. The reason for this is thought the \r\n    names have existed for a long time the Local language didn\'t have writing \r\n    until the arrival of the English, usually captain cook. Obviously I \r\n    can\'t spell very well anyhoo I mean anyhow. At least the English did \r\n    better here than they did in Fiji, the first Westerner to actually live \r\n    there was an English missionary. He was Rev. Thomas Baker, he converted \r\n    much of Fiji to Christianity, before he was put in a big pot and devoured \r\n    by cannibals from a near by island in 1867. Apparently his shoes are \r\n    still on show in the Fiji museum in Suva, our next port of call. </p>\r\n  <p align=\"center\"><img src=\"content/pic/trip1/turtle.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Turtle (turtle.jpg)\"></p>\r\n  <p>We were planning \r\n    to stop at some more islands in Tonga, that doesn\'t look possible however, \r\n    mostly because the quarantine people want to kill the cat, poor old \r\n    Abba. Now they have allowed the cat to live which is against the rules. \r\n    Since its against the rules they want to keep an eye on us and, more \r\n    likely, they don\'t want any other officials to find out they didn\'t \r\n    kill the cat . It isn\'t an ex cat it hasn\'t ceased to be (Yet). </p>\r\n  <p><img src=\"content/pic/trip1/mod.jpg\" alt=\"Tom on a scooter blowing his hooter (mod.jpg)\" width=\"155\" height=\"320\" align=\"left\">Unfortunately \r\n    for me it looks like my old job will be available when I get home..... \r\n    to spend my life as an under paid lab tech or not to spend my life as \r\n    an under paid lab tech that is the question. The answers obvious, don\'t \r\n    even think about it. I\'ll never make my fortune as a LRA (learning resource \r\n    assistant, lab tech in English).<br>\r\nTomorrow we are going to rent Scooters again, 20 Tonga dollars (pa\'angas \r\n    or something) a day, I already have a valid UK driving licence and a \r\n    cook Islands driving licence. Which was copied off my UK one, my UK \r\n    one doesn\'t allow motorbikes... My cook islands one does, I\'m sure I \r\n    can make some sort of deal with the 2 of them! Tonga has been clever, \r\n    they are about 176° West longitude, they should therefore be the last \r\n    place in the world to celebrate the new millennium, but they had some \r\n    clever person who decided to run the date line to the east of them so \r\n    they are 13 hours ahead of GMT, when they should be 11 behind. This \r\n    means that they stand to make an absolute fortune out of the Idiotic \r\n    Americans who want to be the first people to celebrate the millennium.</p>\r\n  <p>The fact that \r\n    the millennium should logically be celebrated at the beginning of 2001 \r\n    is a silly idea that no one cares about, not only that but the real \r\n    millennium should be celebrated at midnight in Israel if one was exact, \r\n    certainly not in Tonga who\'s deliberately moved the date line to make \r\n    money. I hope the hotels computers have the millennium bug it will serve \r\n    them right!</p>\r\n  <p align=\"center\"> <img src=\"content/pic/trip1/rumline.jpg\" alt=\"Navigation Örnen style! (Rumline.jpg)\" ></p>\r\n\r\n<p><img src=\"content/pic/trip1/chess.jpg\" alt=\"Börje plays chess, slowly (chess.jpg)\" align=\"left\">Time is \r\n  relative! This is easily proved by Börje playing chess, he takes \r\n  all week to make his move and then complains when I take more than \r\n  a minute. Score 1 game all, boredom stopped play OK well that\'s \r\n  all I have time for right now, see you sometime!<br>\r\n  all right that\'s \r\n  not all..... After Tonga we\'ve reached Suva in Fuji and Port Villa \r\n  in Vanuatu and this whole page was updated in Honiara, Guadacanal \r\n  the Solomon islands, we leave the 15th for Ghizo Island also in \r\n  the Solomon\'s. Its nice here but these a bit of a war going on like.........<br>\r\n      \r\n  Have a nice night (its day \r\n  round this side of the planet) </P>','','1','tonga, guadacanal, honiara, Fiji, Suva, ','2007-09-15 18:38:51'),(287,1,'Muddy Linux',4,'<a href=\"content/down/muddy-0.4.beta-30-6-07.tar.gz\"><img src=\"images/logos/muddy.png\" alt=\"muddy linux logo\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"></a>\r\n<p>A small linux distro, developed from pebble linux for New Your Wireless, designed to be booted from a 128 Meg CF card.</p>\r\n<p>This was used for at least 2 years to run PierToPier.net\'s seafront wifi network in brighton. Put in an apearance at the Glade festival.</P>\r\n<p>ultimatly its just tweaked Pebble linux, however its does have some differences.</P>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li> Newer kernel (USB webcam support ov511 and stv680) </li>\r\n  <li>New hostap driver </li>\r\n  <li>SNMPD</li>\r\n  <li> netcat</li>\r\n  <li> Chillispot instead of nocat, (and bits it needs to run)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n <h3>DOWNLOAD</h3>\r\n <p><a href=\"content/down/muddy-0.4.beta-30-6-07.tar.gz\">muddy 0.4 beta </a></p>\r\n <p>old versions might be on <a href=\"http://www.piertopier.net\" target=\"_blank\">piertopier.net\'s download page </a></p>\r\n <h3>Basics</h3>\r\n <p>It doesn\'t exactly &quot;Mesh&quot; but it comes close. As it was originally built the installer creates either a Gateway (wired connection to the internet) or a repeater. The repeater uses a static default route and uses OSPF to advertise the fact. The Repeater uses OSPF to find a default route.</p>\r\n <p>Both automatically build a bridge of WDS access points in range. This was a <strong>bad</strong>  idea. On first live test it built 12 WDS links to god knows what. The auto wds function should be turned of!</p>\r\n <p>Both gateway and repeater service clients via the <a href=\"http://www.chillispot.org\" target=\"_blank\">chillispot</a> captive portal system </p>\r\n <p>Here\'s the Out of Date Readme..... </p>\r\n <h3>README</h3>\r\n <div class=\"blog\">\r\n <div class=\"code\">\r\n   <p>PierToPier.net &ldquo;Muddy&rdquo; Pebble Notes.<br />\r\n     By Tom Griffiths, with help from Chris Wilson, Dave Phelan and Ben PierToPier.net 2006 GNU License V2 and all that.</p>\r\n   <p>What is &ldquo;Muddy&rdquo;? <br />\r\n     Its just our customized version of Pebble linux (NY Wireless http://www.nycwireless.net/pebble)</p>\r\n   <p>Where Can I get it? <br />\r\n     Probably on our Wiki.(wiki.piertopier.net)</p>\r\n   <p>What do I need to run it,<br />\r\n     Dunno 486 with a few meg of ram and a 128 meg flash card. To make it WDS with stuff you need a PRISM II based wifi card, and you need to flash its station firmware to greater than 5.6.(see http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/)</p>\r\n   <p>How do I install it?<br />\r\n     Same way you install pebble, from linux. Windows users dunno, virtual machine?<br />\r\n     tar -xvzf muddy-0.1.tar.gz to extract it<br />\r\n     change dir to where ever you extracted it and type &ldquo;./muddy.update&rdquo;<br />\r\n     Follow the instructions, If your running MiniITX, then use option 1, this loads hostap_pci and via-rhine drivers. Option 2 loads via-rhine, ath_pci and hostap_pci drivers option three loads every net driver I could think of for generic PC\'s.</p>\r\n   <p>How Does muddy differ from Pebble?<br />\r\n     Its got more bits principally<br />\r\n     SNMPD<br />\r\n     netcat<br />\r\n     Chillispot instead of nocat, (and bits it needs to run)<br />\r\n     p2pcheckin scripts.<br />\r\n     customized wds scripts / networking scripts. principally /etc/init.d/bridge (by me) and /etc/init.d/wds (from Sown http://www.sown.org.uk/)<br />\r\n     extra /dev/ entry for the tun interface.</p>\r\n   <p>How does it work.<br />\r\n     Depending how you configure it, it fires up the wireless card and automatically creates WDS links to any (change this using the /etc/network/wds config file) accesspoint on its channel.<br />\r\n     Then it builds a bridge, of wlan0 and any WDS devices in range. Then uses zebra/OSPF (/etc/zebra/ospfd.conf and zebra.conf) to build its routes, if its got a wired Internet connection zebra sets that as the default route, then OSPF advatises that node as a gateway to other WDS links. If zebra isn\'t set with a default route OFPF will find one off another WDS links. Bridges are running STP (spanning tree protocol) to stop bridge loops.<br />\r\n     Finally it starts up chillispot and authentication system, radius client/nas, dhcp captive portal. This creates a tun0 interface and services clients off it.<br />\r\n     There\'s a firewall (/etc/init.d/firewall), basically the one supplied with chillispot. Does nat etc.</p>\r\n   <p>No really how does it work, whats a tun interface? why wouldn\'t I want a Bridge loop?<br />\r\n     F***ed if I know I\'m a physics laboratory technician for 16 to 18 year olds, not an expert. </p>\r\n   <p>What do I need to change?<br />\r\n     Not Much the Installer should set it all up ready to go. However the following have been tweaked by and if you gwet stuck have a go at them.<br />\r\n     /etc/modules &ndash; hardware, if you chose the right install option, you shouldn\'t need to change this, this is what drivers are loaded on boot. (ath_pci for atheros &ndash; no WDS at present)<br />\r\n     /etc/network/interfaces &ndash; network cards config (note wifi interface ip is overridden by the bridge its a backup) specifiy the ssid etc here.<br />\r\n     /etc/network/wds &ndash; wds configuration<br />\r\n     /etc/init.d/bridge &ndash; wireless bridge configuration and management script<br />\r\n     /etc/zebra/zebra.conf make sure it matches /etc/network/interfaces. If gateway add default route here.<br />\r\n     /etc/zebra/ospfd.conf if gateway uncomment default information-origninate, so it tells WDS devices its a gateway. otherwise should match /etc/network/interfaces configuration.<br />\r\n     /etc/hosts. WARNING chillispot will NOT start unless it can resolve any domain names in its config file. Since OSPF takes a while to find a default route make sure any domain used in chilli.conf are in here.<br />\r\n     /etc/init.d/chilli.conf captive portal configuration, you can use chillispot\'s radius and splash for practice (http://www.chillispot.org).<br />\r\n     Choose your firewall configuration, /etc/init.d/firewall for a gateway, firewall.repeater for a repeater.<br />\r\n     some of the settings the isntall make us are piertopier.net specific. If you want to change the INSTALLER settings then edit the files in /sample. Leave the phrases like &quot;REPLACEWITHNODENO&quot; and simailr as they are used by the installer.</p>\r\n   <p>Sounds great does it work?<br />\r\n     Sort of. Things I know are broken:<br />\r\n     Repeater Firewall doesn\'t actually work &ndash; I\'m no good at iptables. Just turn it off and chilli off and the central gateway will splash \'em, I got this to work on OpenWRT<br />\r\n     cron runs &quot;/etc/init.d/bridge rebuild&rdquo; to create and add/remove new/lost WDS links to/from the wireless bridge. I use static WDS declaration in /etc/network/wds anyway. Its wds\'ing is a bit virulent. It will WDS with anything. First time I tried it gave me an ip off a neighboring meashap box!.</p>\r\n   <p>How secure is it?<br />\r\n     Not at all, what do I know I clean test-tubes for a living? OK anything with an IP on the backhaul net (i.e. NOT DHCP\'d from chillispot) can access the Internet. All you have to do is assign yourself a free IP on this net and your free to go. This is partly deliberate, its in development &ndash; I Need it for when I screw up. Ultimately some sort of ip tunnel for backhaul instead is wise... I don\'t do ipsec....</p>\r\n   <p>Why do it this way?<br />\r\n     Errrrrrrr what is it with the difficult questions? BUT its compatible with OpenWRT (use PierToPier.net &ldquo;rusty&rdquo; and it will talk to a linksys WRT54G in WDS mode :-) which is cool.<br />\r\n     Chillispot does radius accounting :-), which is really cool (stats.piertopier.net) we already had the hardware. MeshAP(www.locusworld.net) was driving me nuts, and it was the best I could do!</p>\r\n   <p>BIG FAT WARNING.<br />\r\n     Do not try this if your not competent at networking, linux, wifi and for gods skake don\'t try it near any sensitive people/equipment. <br />\r\n   </p>\r\n   </div>\r\n </div>\r\n <h3>RELEASE NOTES<br />\r\n </h3>\r\n <div class=\"blog\">\r\n   <div class=\"code\">\r\n     <p>Muddy Release Notes:<br />\r\nMuddy Linux pre 0.3<br />\r\n0.3 Release<br />\r\nFirewall settings finally sorted, Chillispot runs on Repeater Nodes, OSPF decides wich gateway to use.<br />\r\nInstaller Sets up firewall for repeater/gateway.<br />\r\nWebcam has been tested with 0.3<br />\r\nWEBCAM MINI HOWTO<br />\r\napt-get update<br />\r\napt-get install vgrabbj<br />\r\nedit /etc/vgrabbj.conf - warning so of these options will toast your card!<br />\r\nyou may need to create /dev/video<br />\r\nMadwifi appears to be working<br />\r\nCompatiblility testing:<br />\r\nMuddy 0.3 has been tweaked to run on: EBX, MiniITX, old Celeron 366, IBM thinkpad 560. Every Prism2 card I can get my hands on works fine with this. Pretty sure that the CF ones will work too.</p>\r\n     <p>BUGS:<br />\r\n       Wireless tools package will NOT talk to Madwifing properly. I\'m testing this before I put it in the build. apt-get isntall wireless tools seems to work.<br />\r\n       Madwifi-ng crashes the kernel suprise suprise....<br />\r\n       ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />\r\n       0.2 Release<br />\r\n       New Kernel (2.4.27-muuddy 0.1), suport for v4l and usb webcams based on ov511 and stv60.<br />\r\n       New hostap Driver, with firmware download suport.<br />\r\n       New Madwifi drivers, moved over to the new Madwifi-ng driver.<br />\r\n       Auto Prism2 firmware upgrade on boot /etc/init.d/firmware config in /etc/network/firmware selection of firmware in /usr/lib/firmware<br />\r\n       Bridge Script improved. It functions as before however it DOES NOT require Its IP to be se manually anymore, it gets it from ifconfig. Its other settings have been moved to a config file /etc/network/bridge however its not expected that these will need to be changed (unless we go to atheros cards) <br />\r\n       PCMCIA (well some) </p>\r\n     <p>BUGS:<br />\r\n       Missing wlanconfig prog for madwifi so anything bar client mode don\'t work - will probably be fixed before full release.<br />\r\n       TMPFs much improved. ksmoops main culprit.<br />\r\n       not expectign the zebra bug again, typeo in old configs I suspect.<br />\r\n       PCMCIA alecs 16 bit thingy works my card bu one doesn\'t<br />\r\n       Repeater Firewall</p>\r\n     <p>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />\r\n       O.1 Release </p>\r\n     <p>NEW THINGS:<br />\r\n       /usr/sbin/logclean and its cron job. Don\'t tell Dave but p2pcheckin is more important than log data I can\'t understand. Its only mildy deleted once a day.<br />\r\n       Icreased the size of /rw the tmpfs to 20 meg as all boxes have &gt;128 meg of ram. Untill the log thing is under control<br />\r\n       Rmoved the link to the firewall. Needs to be put back ofr a gateway only (cd to /etc/rc2.d and ln -s ../init.d/firewall S99firewall<br />\r\n       needs to be added for a gateway.<br />\r\n       New isntaller, won\'t know if it works till after this is writern. I\'m building this as arelease in case I\'ve done somehting dumb and the script decimates the build dir.<br />\r\n       better hardware support from the installer. (both the normal muddy.update and muddy.update.tom)<br />\r\n       Hs M-E\'s DNS set this time.<br />\r\n       ppcheckin has full path to urlencode now, which it seems to like<br />\r\n     </p>\r\n     <p>BUGS:<br />\r\n       Still no smart repeater. Disable chilli on a repeater.<br />\r\n       Runs out of tmfs which is irritating<br />\r\n       deleting stuff from tmpfs doesn\'t seem to free up hd space WTF?<br />\r\n       f you put an atheros card in for backhaul zebra goes bannans and starts assinging address to lo not wlan0 which is annoying.     </p>\r\n     <p><br />\r\n     </p>\r\n   </div>\r\n </div>','http://www.piertopier.net','muddy-0.4.beta-30-6-07.tar.gz','128, flash, linux, pebble, compact, card, muddy, piertopier','2007-10-22 16:36:07'),(273,9,'Dominica Wallpaper',4,'<h3>Dominica \"The Nature Isle\"</h3><img src=\"content/down/DoninicaLink.jpg\" align=\"left\"<br />\r\n<p>This is a bay on the eastern side of the Island. Taken by me in 2001</P>','','Doninica.jpg','dominica, wallpaper, image, 1024, 764, ','2007-10-16 07:50:43'),(236,8,'ARC',5,'Atlantic Rally for Cruisers','http://www.worldcruising.com/arc/','3',NULL,'2007-09-29 09:04:56'),(241,8,'Australia',3,'  <h3>PNG to Australia </h3>\r\n  <p> I\'m in Australia, Darwin NT<br>\r\nNT stands for Northern territories or alternativly \'Not Today and Not Tomorrow\'. We arrived a few days \r\n    a go from Port Moresby Papua New Guinea, after a smooth passage through \r\n    the Torres Straight ( as the Skipper puts it \"it looks like someone \r\n    sneezed Snuff on the chart\"). Swedish snuff is sort of chewing tobacco \r\n    in tea bags. Our stay in PNG was pretty uneventful, we arrived in Misima \r\n    the eastern most Island you can clear customs at with out visas, we \r\n    were told the leave next day for Moresby to deal with it. This was not \r\n    a great problem since Misima\'s capital would be proud one day to achieve \r\n    the at present unreachably high title of \"one horse Town\". Also we didn\'t \r\n    worry too much about the restriction of not being allowed to go ashore \r\n    because we had no visas, we solved this by taking one of the officials \r\n    to the pub with us. He came to the pub with us because he and the customs \r\n    man had drunk all the alcohol on board. We departed the next morning. \r\n  </p>\r\n<p> <img src=\"content/pic/trip1/grog.jpg\" alt=\"Grog For Sale (kava) (grog.jpg)\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">We arrived a few days later in Port Moresby crime \r\n      capital of the Pacific, we got lots of stuff done and went to \r\n      customs to get tax free fuel, then round to shell to get a form \r\n      shell sent us to another customs office and they sent us back \r\n      to the fist office who eventually gave us the form, in quadruplicate, \r\n      with no carbon. Saying \"it must have the ships rubber stamp \r\n      on it, or its not legal\" Great we don\'t have a stamp. I solved \r\n      the problem buy writing ÖRNEN on the shell receptionists rubber \r\n      and then stamping the appropriate signature. The intelligent \r\n      amongst you will by now have realised I should have written \r\n      NENRÖ. Well it looked like it had been rubber stamped but it \r\n      was backwards....... In Moresby we lost Börje and Roz, Roz had \r\n      to go home to NSW and Börje went with her, pity Börje has been \r\n      with us since Trinidad and Roz since Panama, she brought the \r\n      cat onboard. The cat was then a kitten living with out permission \r\n      at a back packers hostel in Panama. Obviously as a small kitten \r\n      it hadn\'t been injected or tested for any thing yet and we had \r\n      no papers for it........</p>\r\n\r\n  <hr align=\"left\">\r\n\r\n    <h3>A bigger classic even than Beowulf.</h3>\r\n  <p>Well we signed the cat in to every harbour we went to \r\n    till Tonga. Then they said \"no paper with the cats medical record, we \r\n    kill the cat\" eventually after some fast talking they agreed that if \r\n    we stayed a anchor and kept the cat in a cage on board it was OK. We \r\n    didn\'t keep the cat in a cage, they had no way of making sure we kept \r\n    the cat in the cage. They asked us to give them a ride out to the boat, \r\n    in the old dinghy, it sank regularly even the most fastidious Quarantine \r\n    officer would avoid it. Well they gave that idea up after 1 time!!!!! \r\n    Well we left giving them the cat sand in a bag. Then when we got to \r\n    Cook Islands we stopped telling Quarantine and customs about the cat. \r\n    We used to lock it in the engine room or the toilet...... That was fine \r\n    till the Quarantine people in Misima Papua new guinea wanted the toilet, \r\n    they\'d been drinking their way though all the beer on board, no to mention \r\n    the vodka whiskey etc. We told them it was broken and they went to the \r\n    loo over the side. By that time though we were friends and promising \r\n    to come back and see them again, they wanted postcards etc. And as Tom \r\n    put it \"they wouldn\'t care if we had a Bengal Tiger on board\". After \r\n    an afternoon of drinking and Abba being stuck in the bog she was nearly \r\n    a Bengal tiger! Any way the Quarantine officer didn\'t even bother to \r\n    come out to the boat in Port Moresby. Despite our lovely new dinghy, \r\n    with the new big engine, I can soak any customs officer in the southern \r\n    hemisphere!!!!!! Then comes Australia----- oz strucking failier as Sandra \r\n    calls it. We knew customs was tight here very tight. We their fore hid \r\n    the cat in the locker on deck at the back that contains the rudder, \r\n    under the auxiliary. I then went ashore to get the people. Got one lot \r\n    and dropped them on board and went back for a second load (there were \r\n    5 plus the dog). Then I saw them brining the dog down the jetty. I was \r\n    not responsible for the boat that all falls on Tom as the captain. But \r\n    even so when I saw the Dog it was brown trousers time. I thought we\'d \r\n    end up with a dead cat and a bad fine or worse. Well when we came back \r\n    to the Örnen, the dog kept trying to go for a swim on the way. When \r\n    we got to Örnen I called Tom before we got alongside to warn him. He \r\n    told me to start the generator, I did Tom then spilt diesel all over \r\n    the area, I was going to throw the cat in the sea. But I guess he isn\'t \r\n    that nasty. So I went and hid and filled out paper work, lots of paper \r\n    work. The dog went straight to the box the cat uses as a toilet, now \r\n    empty and by the washing up (its an old washing up bowl). The girls \r\n    who were handling the dog pulled it away They could see there were no \r\n    drugs there. The dog went all over the front cabin. No drugs there. \r\n    The dog then went round the deck, while I was bellow, IT WENT STRAIGHT \r\n    TO THE LOCKER WITH THE CAT, big surprise its a Dog...........</p>\r\n  <p><img src=\"content/pic/trip1/liftout.jpg\" alt=\"Örnen gets lifted out, Darwin (liftout.jpg)\" align=\"left\">The handlers just pulled it away and went on with the \r\n    search, Tom had a heart attack......... I was below. While I was bellow \r\n    the Quarantine officer was busy going through all the lockers and taking \r\n    stuff he didn\'t like. Then he said \"what\'s the cat food for\", I kind \r\n    of told the truth. Tom used to have a cat, the tom appeared and I asked \r\n    him \"when did the cat get off\", he caught the hint and said \"La Palma\" \r\n    (true that\'s when the old cat got off) then he said \"its good for fishing\". \r\n    They guy said no more............. Soon after they left... I went **** \r\n    I NEED A DRINK.............. And while taking them ashore a sea plane \r\n    tried to land on me ...........</p>\r\n  <hr>\r\n\r\n      <p>I was going to come home from here but \r\n  will now be going on to Thailand, via the war zone called Indonesia, \r\n  Singapore and Malaysia.</p>\r\n','','1','darwin, papua, new, gunea, PNG, morseby, shark, cat, torres,Australia','2007-09-29 09:39:59'),(239,8,'Crew Seekers',5,'Expencive and I\'m not impressed so far.','https://www.crewseekers.net/','5',NULL,'2007-09-29 09:13:18'),(240,10,'Deep Blue Recruitment',5,'Job in the marine industry. Not run by someone I know honest','http://www.deepbluerecruitment.com','4',NULL,'2007-09-29 09:15:28'),(242,8,'Aisa',3,'<h3>Heart of Asia</h3>\r\n  <h3>Indonesia.</h3>\r\n  <p>\'The time has come\' the walrus said \'to \r\n    speak of many things, of coral reefs and mud banks, of Dragons and permit-things.\'\r\n  </p>\r\n  <p> I\'m in Bali, having come via Waingapu and Komodo Island. The \r\n    one time our old charts with the words \"there be dragons here\" \r\n    was actualy correct. Unfortunatly may of out charts of Indonesia \r\n    are so old that they say there be dargons here all over the place \r\n    not just komodo.</p>\r\n  <p>Well the journey from Darwin was uneventful in the begining, \r\n    too uneventfull there wasn\'t a breath of wind and it was hot hot \r\n    hot. hot like I\'ve never even dreamed of. We decided to put into \r\n    Waingapu on Sumba Island, we didn\'t have an acurate chart but \r\n    we fugured we\'d manage ok...... So we sat aground on a coral reef \r\n    for the best part of the morning, luckily no damage. We met some \r\n    friendly locals who all shouted \"hello Meester\" repeatedly, I \r\n    always though that was an asian steriotype....</p></td>\r\n<img src=\"content/pic/trip1/grog.jpg\" alt=\"Grog For Sale (kava) (grog.jpg)\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\r\n  <h3>Waingapu.</h3>\r\n  <img src=\"content/pic/trip1/shark.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Shark on deck! shark.jpg\" align=\"left\">\r\n      <p>We eventually got in there after negociating \r\n  the evil coral reef, and took a taxi into town, town turned out \r\n  to be a 400,000 person dump. All 400,000 of them said hello Meesta....... \r\n  It got to be a bit of a drag after a while the bank didn\'t really \r\n  exchnage any money and eventually gave us half the going rate. The \r\n  taxi had more speakers than seats and the base combined with the \r\n  very soogy suspetion made it feel like a malfuntioning fairground \r\n  ride. We got done eventually for not having cleard into indonesia... \r\n  Yep its that Permit-thing. So we informed them of our engine problem, \r\n  they didn\'t seem to mind, I think we\'re probably the only white \r\n  people they\'ve seen in a couple of years. So off we went to Komodo \r\n  Island home of the Dragons, boy are they ugly! Komodo was smaller \r\n  and cleaner, the harbourmaster who was more used to Tourists but \r\n  missing the numbers due to the Timor crisis, caught us again but \r\n  didn\'t find out about our previous transgression in Waingapu becase \r\n  of a photocopied clearance from Darwin. We left Komodo and are in \r\n  Bali, which has lots of People and lots of rice and lots of hindu \r\n  temples.</P>\r\n  <p>Its definatly not Autrailia Leaving for Singapore before we get \r\n  in more trouble.</p>\r\n    <p>Next stop Singapore</p>\r\n     <p>We headed off \r\n    asap to Lankawi, Malaysia duty free (and there was much rejoicing), \r\n    climed mountais etc, got drunk with Pierre (owner) and Duncan (skipper) \r\n    of Melanjen and got a place crewing on the kings cup!</p>\r\n<img src=\"content/pic/trip1/KingsCup2.jpg\" alt=\"Kinks Cup (KingsCup2.jpg)\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\">\r\n  <p>At some \r\n    point I\'ll get tround to writing it up and putting it in here! -but \r\n    not today</p>','','1','malaysia, thailand, lankawi, china, sea, dragon, waingapu, kimodo, bali','2007-09-29 09:54:17'),(271,10,'B3ta Stuff',3,'  <h3>b3ta</h3>\r\n <p>If anyone is confused by any of the following that\'s cos \r\n  their out of context. the context is: <br>\r\n  <a href=\"http://www.b3ta.com\">b3ta - We love the Web</a> - the second \r\n  best website in the world.</p>\r\n <p align=\"center\" class=\"blog\"><img src=\"content/pic/b3ta/satcard.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\"><br>\r\n  My only front page! WOO YAY!<br>\r\n  <img src=\"content/pic/b3ta/hell.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"157\"> <br>\r\n  Probably been done (note I\'m not american but I couldn get a GIF of \r\n  an english CHANCE card)<br>\r\n  <img src=\"content/pic/b3ta/ashaim.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"191\"><br>\r\n  &quot;photoshow Ronald McDonald&quot;<br>\r\n  <img src=\"content/pic/b3ta/bg.gif\" width=\"145\" height=\"250\"> <br>\r\n  Bill Gates<br>\r\n  <img src=\"content/pic/b3ta/bunny.gif\" width=\"152\" height=\"152\"><br>\r\n  Bunny Dead<br>\r\n  <img src=\"content/pic/b3ta/cats.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"227\"> <br>\r\n  Potatoshop a musial<br>\r\n  <img src=\"content/pic/b3ta/crash.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"176\"> <br>\r\n  Speaking I\'ll of the Dead<br>\r\n  <img src=\"content/pic/b3ta/gmrd.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"196\"><br>\r\n  Santa, Just Say NO to GM Reindeer<br>\r\n  <img src=\"content/pic/b3ta/pig.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"168\"> <br>\r\n  THE conservative voter (there is only one) <br>\r\n  <img src=\"content/pic/b3ta/sausage.jpg\" width=\"322\" height=\"146\"><br>\r\n  content/pic/b3ta Menu<br>\r\n <img src=\"content/pic/b3ta/tvattacks.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"213\"> \r\n  <br>\r\n  Never trust the BBC<br>\r\n </p>\r\n ','http://www.b3ta.com','','b3ta, photoshop, potatoshop, photoswap','2007-10-16 07:19:37'),(251,11,'Island Kea II',5,'Steve and Katrins yacht.','http://blog.mailasail.com/everett','2',NULL,'2007-10-08 08:32:30'),(250,3,'Blogging Tester',3,'Well I\'m preping this site for my departure for the Caribbean. To that end I\'m integrating Google Maps into it, retireing bits that are no longer relavent and generally having fun.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nYou can watch my chart integration experiments <a href=\"chart.php\">here</a>.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nI\'m goign to make a map based navigation system as much as I can.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nTom','http://www.brightonsc.org.uk','','Junk','2007-10-06 17:09:18'),(267,10,'Bread',3,' <h1>HOW TO MAKE BREAD<br>\r\n <img src=\"content/pics/trip1/bread.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" alt=\"Loaf of Bread\"> </h1>\r\n<div class=\"blog\">\r\n <h3 align =\"center\">Recipe \r\n  A</h3>\r\n <ul>\r\n  <li> Loda flour</li>\r\n  <li>bita oil</li>\r\n  <li>little sugar</li>\r\n  <li>salt to taste</li>\r\n  <li>mixture of warm \r\n  water and yeast</li>\r\n  <li>MASH TOGETHER INTO \r\n  A LUMP</li>\r\n  <li>leave till it gets \r\n  bigger somewhere warm (the tropics good)</li>\r\n  <li>squash it mash it \r\n  and generally abuse it again</li>\r\n  <li>Stuff it in a tin</li>\r\n  <li>laeve for another \r\n  half hour (warm again)</li>\r\n  <li>Stick it in the \r\n  oven for half an hour</li>\r\n </ul>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class-\"blog\">\r\n <h3>CONSUME WITH GUSTO</h3>\r\n <p>See its not that hard!</p>\r\n <h3 align=\"center\">Recipe \r\n  B</h3>\r\n <ul>\r\n  <li> Find a suitible \r\n  Jacket (this is tricky please ask a child for help)</li>\r\n  <li>Leave house (check \r\n  you have your keys, this can be embasrassing)</li>\r\n  <li>Note house number \r\n  you will need this later</li>\r\n  <li>Walk down the pavement \r\n  giveing apropriate money to big issue seller and avoiding cars \r\n  (important) </li>\r\n  <li>Look for signs saying \r\n  one of the folowing\r\n  <ul>\r\n  <li>BAKERY</li>\r\n  <li>ASDA</li>\r\n  <li>WAITROSE</li>\r\n  <li>TESCOS</li>\r\n  <li>SAFEWAY*</li>\r\n  </ul>\r\n  </li>\r\n  <li>Enter the \"Shop\"and \r\n  use \"money\" to buy bread. </li>\r\n </ul>\r\n</div>\r\n <p>* - I have \r\n  been told that One can also get bread in something called a \"Coop\", one can\'t help thinging that this isn\'t a good idea, as the money \r\n  used might fall into the hands of something called \"honest \r\n  People\" </p>\r\n','','','bread, baking, flour','2007-10-14 07:07:15'),(255,10,'Caribbean Compass',5,'Caribbean Compass magazine','http://www.caribbeancompass.com/','5',NULL,'2007-10-09 19:28:26'),(266,10,'The Grip',5,'its purple and its a yacht.','http://www.gripster.org','3',NULL,'2007-10-10 17:44:24'),(268,10,'Book Review',3,' <h1>BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ</h1>\r\n  <p align=\"center\"><img src=\"content/pic/trip1/parot.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Learning Parrot fashion\"></p>\r\n <table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\r\n <tr> \r\n <td width=\"50%\" valign=\"top\">\r\n <div class=\"blog\">\r\n<h3>BOOKS RECOMMENDED \r\n </h3>\r\n <ul>\r\n  <li> The Hotel new Hampshire - John Irving. \r\n  Possibly the best book ever written, comedy drama tragedy \r\n  and social commentary all tied up in a good story.</li>\r\n  <li>Good Omens - Terry Pratchet and Neil Gainman, \r\n  especially recommended for Christians</li>\r\n  <li>Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance - \r\n  Robert M Prisic. Heavy stuff, not for the faint hearted</li>\r\n  <li>The Alchemist - Paulo someone other, best read \r\n  in the middle of a desert or ocean. Inspiring. A fable for \r\n  those who want to understand the nature of the universe</li>\r\n  <li>A brave new World - Aldous Huxley The future?</li>\r\n  <li>The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy - Douglas \r\n  Adams, needs no introduction</li>\r\n  <li>Spycatcher - a spy, the The book Maggie didn\'t \r\n  want you to read</li>\r\n  <li>The Art of Course Sailing - Mike Green, written \r\n  in the 50\'s on the Norfolk broads the only good sailing book \r\n  I have ever read.</li>\r\n  <li>The Damage Done - Warren Fellows, 12 years \r\n  in a Bangkok Prison, a must for all Tabloid readers.</li>\r\n  <li>A good children\'s Book - even if you read it \r\n  when young read it again, I suggest the Hobbit (tolkien) Swallows \r\n  and amazons (Arthur Ransom), anything by Roal Dahl or a Harry \r\n  Potter book. Regain your sense of perspective. </li>\r\n  <li>Angela\'s Ashes, memoirs of a childhood - Frank \r\n  McCormick (wrong spelling probably)</li>\r\n  <li>Adolf Hitler My part in his downfall - Spike \r\n  Milligan</li>\r\n  <li>Reeds Nautical almanac 5 minutes before hitting \r\n  something. Don\'t put it off, it could be too late.</li>\r\n </ul></div>\r\n </td>\r\n <td width=\"50%\" valign=\"top\" height=\"406\">\r\n <div class=\"blog\"> <h3>BOOKS NOT RECOMMENDED \r\n </h3>\r\n \r\n <ul>\r\n  <li>Metal Corrosion in boats - Nigel Warren <br>\r\n  this book is Horribly dull, keep the corrosion its more interesting</li>\r\n  <li>Goats - Mark Porvir, this guy couldn\'t right \r\n  decent stuff if god gave it to him on stone tablets.</li>\r\n  <li>Gulivers Travels - Jonathan Swift, good idea \r\n  for the 1700s, but 2/3 of the book is him going on about why \r\n  he cut stuff out!</li>\r\n  <li>The grapes of wrath - Steinbeck. There are \r\n  many books written about the horrors of the poor or nasty \r\n  situations, this isn\'t one of them, its uninteresting depressing \r\n  and dull. See Angela\'s Ashes/the damage done in the other \r\n  column these people were there when it all went wrong Steinbeck \r\n  wasn\'t!</li>\r\n  <li>The bible - God (apparently), he wasn\'t into \r\n  boats see Revelation! This book has killed more people than \r\n  AIDS, and still is. Well meening book but widly misinterpreted, \r\n  espeially by successive Popes.</li>\r\n  <li>The Hitch Hikers guide to the ocean - a 1800\'s \r\n  blind scottish crofter could have written more autoritativly \r\n  on sailing on other peoples boats!</li>\r\n  <li>Ian (M) banks - don\'t waist your time, especially \r\n  with his novel \'The Business\', absolute tripe.</li>\r\n </ul>\r\n </div></td>\r\n </tr>\r\n <tr> \r\n   <td width=\"50%\" valign=\"top\" height=\"655\">\r\n    <div class=\"blog\">\r\n	<h3>FILMS (movies) YOU SHOULD SEE</h3>\r\n     <ul>\r\n       <li>Clerks - Written Directed and Staring Kevin \r\n         Smith and the 7 11 he woked in.<br>\r\n        </li>\r\n    <li>Bad Boy Bobby - Australian film about the important \r\n      things in life such as insest and not clingfilming (glad wraping) \r\n      the cat. Sick twisted and highly entertaining.</li>\r\n    <li>Dr Strangelove - Stannley Kubrick</li>\r\n    <li>Apocalypse Now - Martin sheen and the horros \r\n      of vietnam.</li>\r\n    <li>Blade Runner - the version without the voice \r\n      over<br>\r\n      The Abyss - James Cameron Film</li>\r\n    <li>National Lampoons Animal House - do not get \r\n      this wrong and accidently watch any of the other abismil national \r\n      lampoon films.</li>\r\n    <li>Withnail and I, watch for the Camberwell Carrot \r\n      and don\'t try and play dinking games with the movie.</li>\r\n    <li>Quadrphenia, one of 2 films ever filmed in \r\n      my home town (I\'m not going to mention the other one).*</li>\r\n    <li>Terry Gillingham\'s Brasil, a version of George \r\n      Orwells 1984 with a pythonesque twist.</li>\r\n    <li>The Usual suspects.</li>\r\n    <li>South Park Longer bigger and uncut (the movie)</li>\r\n    <li>Dune, one of the few movies thats better than \r\n      the book.</li>\r\n   </ul>\r\n   <p>Many of these \r\n     movies are <b>not available from BLOCKBUSTER </b>video. Try \r\n     a real video store.</p>\r\n   <p>Recently there have been a whole host of good movies, even \r\n     from hollywood, including Fight Club and American Beauty and \r\n     the rival of British films such as Trainspotting and Lock Stock \r\n     and 2 Smoking barrels, the future looks bright remember the \r\n     rambo series and films starring Chuck Norris!</p></td>\r\n	 </div>\r\n   <td width=\"50%\" valign=\"top\" height=\"655\"> <div class=\"blog\">\r\n   <h3>FILMS (movies) YOU SHOULD avoid</h3>\r\n     <ul>\r\n       <li>Natural Born Killers - This was a joke \r\n         right?</li>\r\n    <li>Attack of the killer tomatoes</li>\r\n    <li>Forest Gump (aka T.Hanks) American feel \r\n      good crap with a bloody irritating deep south accent. Good \r\n      Bless America!</li>\r\n    <li>Matilda - allegedly based on the Rohl \r\n      Dahl Book, I\'ve not seen this film but the trailers looked \r\n      awful READ THE BOOK or get your kids too.</li>\r\n    <li>The long run home starring Jean Clude \r\n      Van god Damn. DO NOT WATCH THIS FILM ON ANY ACCOUNT!</li>\r\n    <li>The Water Boy/Big Daddy - Adam saddler \r\n      is not worth the ticket (hell he\'s not worth the electricity \r\n      for the telly) watch the fish tank instead.</li>\r\n    <li>Born on the 4th of July - I\'m sorry but \r\n      this film is dull, sod the fictiscious Vietnam vet, what about \r\n      the poor (dead, maimed and still dying)) Vietnamese? Platoon \r\n      was a good film and showed the suffering of the Vietnamese \r\n      at least a little as well. Well meaning film...but.</li>\r\n    <li>Star Trek Movies - some say the odd numbered \r\n      ones are all right. The dead horse has now been thouraly flogged \r\n      give it up guys!</li>\r\n    <li>Water World - Kevin bloody Constner in \r\n      a nautical farce, if you concentrate really hard you may find \r\n      a plot amongst the continuity errors, if you do please tell \r\n      me. Redeeming factor, the idea of Kevin as a fish. This guy \r\n      can\'t sail.</li>\r\n    <li>Castaway - Tom hanks stranded on an uninhabited \r\n      island. Not actually a bad film at all but criticized due \r\n      to the fact that they removed Tom Hanks from the island after \r\n      finishing the movie. I would have liked Brad Pitt to have \r\n      really speant 7 year in Tibet too.</li>\r\n   </ul>\r\n   <p>All these can \r\n     be got on video in <b>BLOCKBUSTER</b></p><div></td></tr>\r\n </table>\r\n ','','','books, suck, awfull, read, review','2007-10-14 13:48:15'),(269,10,'Song and Dance',3,' <h1>Stuff I have seen and Heard </h1>\r\n  <div class=\"blog\"><h3>An email from cold and \r\n jealous friend</h3>\r\n  <p>Hi Tom<br>\r\nThought I\'d cheer you up a bit. It\'s beautifully hot and sunny here \r\n and I\'m going to work in shorts. The trains are running on time, the \r\n traffic is light and gives way to cyclists when its supposed to. Everyone\'s \r\n got a pay rise, there\'s no homeless people on the streets and Tony Blair\'s \r\n been caught in bed with a wombat.<br>\r\nOn the other hand it could just be winter. <br>\r\nThanks ever so much for your missives. <br>\r\nTrust you\'re having a slightly reasonable time? <br>\r\nKeep us posted<br>\r\n<br>\r\nall the best to you all<br>\r\nSimon & Pen<br>\r\n</p>\r\n</div>\r\n  <hr>\r\n  <h3>THE GALAPAGOS SONG by \r\n Roslyn Woowar (Woodward) </h3>\r\n<p>  To the Tune of \"Everybody\'s \r\n  Talking at Me\"</p>\r\n  <img src=\"content/pic/trip1/turtlerider.jpg\" alt=\"tom on a turtle. turtlerider.jpg\" width=\"228\" height=\"203\" align=\"right\">Coastguard\'s \r\n looking at us, <br>\r\nWondering what the hell were doin\', <br>\r\nEver morning wake up Knowin\', <br>\r\nWe aint made it nowhere, <br>\r\nJust back and forth and in a straight line, <br>\r\nWe\'re goin\' where the winds are blowin\'<br>\r\nRound and round with map in hand, <br>\r\n\"Oh Tom\" they say \"When are we Goin\' to see those turtles walk the land\",<br>\r\nTogether on <a href=http://www.ornen.com\"> Örnen </a> we\'ll keep afloatin\', <br>\r\nHeadin\' to Galapagos that\'s our plan. <br>\r\n\"Oh Tom, How much further\",<br>\r\nFor the crew of <a href=http://www.ornen.com\"> Örnen </a> that\'s their \r\n chant. <br>\r\n<hr>\r\n<h3>More of Roz\'z Poetry.</h3>\r\n  Its never \r\n been a dream for me,<br>\r\nto sail a shrimp trawler across the sea<br>\r\na special that I\'ll always reflect,<br>\r\nOn memories that I\'ll never forget,<br>\r\n<br>\r\nWhen I look back it was all so new,<br>\r\nmy first days on Örnen and a her crazy crew,<br>\r\nI came from Panama with Abba the cat,<br>\r\nonboard with five men you can\'t beat that!<br>\r\n<br>\r\nwe set sail for Galapagos,<br>\r\n\"only a week they did say\"<br>\r\nI was settled in,<br>\r\nafter twenty three days!!<br>\r\n<br>\r\nwith a goodbye to Richard one Englishman less,<br>\r\nfor 3000 miles we sailed on west,<br>\r\nthere in the Marquesas who could of guessed,<br>\r\nmark the egg man he would be next.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThen there were four, a family like no other,<br>\r\nThomas Tank and Börje my 2 crazy brothers,<br>\r\nThorbjörn our dad but sometimes out mother,<br>\r\nand Abba the cat, how everyone loved her.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nSewing and cooking and playing nursemaids,<br>\r\nlearning about hamsters we passed the days,<br>\r\nlaughing and drinking the nights came to an end,<br>\r\nsinging pink floyd over and over again.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n  Island \r\n    by Island we crossed the pacific,<br>\r\nand with the exception Jesus things were terrific,<br>\r\nsuch an embarrassment it was to be in that craft,<br>\r\nwith hats pulled low we pumped and laughed.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nPumping and pumping for me in a dinghy,<br>\r\nPumping and singing they\'ve all been drinking,<br>\r\nPumping and bailing \"oh god we\'re sinking\",<br>\r\nPumping our way across the pacific. <br>\r\n<img src=\"content/pic/trip1/jesus.jpg\" alt=\"one sinky dinghy (jesus.jpg)\" width=\"250\" height=\"171\" align=\"right\"> <br>\r\nAll too soon we arrived in Fiji,<br>\r\ntime to fly home I thought for me,<br>\r\nbut my mind quickly changed,<br>\r\nwhen I saw that new dinghy (sorry Böri),<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThis ones called Judas,<br>\r\na name from the past,<br>\r\nTraitor of Jesus,<br>\r\nand man he goes fast.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<img src=\"content/pic/trip1/pray.jpg\" alt=\"goodbye to jesus (pray.jpg)\" width=\"250\" height=\"178\" align=\"right\"> What a difference \r\n it made<br>\r\nwith that dinghy so new,<br>\r\nwithout even trying,<br>\r\nwe found 2 new crew.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nSandra the Kiwi and Alex the Dane<br>\r\nits so hard to convince them we\'re sane,<br>\r\neven sweet Abba we used to rely on her,<br>\r\nbut now she has turned to a terrible tiger!<br>\r\n<br>\r\nAs I step ashore in Papua New Guinea<br>\r\nthis five month adventure has ended for me,<br>\r\nthanks to ÖRNEN and all her crew,<br>\r\nfor showing a life that I never knew.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nwhen one adventure ends another one starts,<br>\r\nthe next ones with Börje who\'s stolen my heart,<br>\r\nto see the people of PNG,<br>\r\nand who knows were the adventure will end. \r\n','','','song, galapagos, ornen, tony, bair, wombat','2007-10-14 14:17:51'),(270,10,'Rogues Gallery',3,'<h1 align=\"centre\">Passing crew in no particular order.</h1>\r\n <div align=\"center\"><a href=\"#dream\">DREAMTIME \r\n  IV</a> | <a href=\"#Sam\">RAMPRASAD</a> | <a href=\"#ornen\">ORNEN</a> | <a href=\"#ik2\">ISLAND KEA II\r\n</a></div>\r\n <p style=\"clear:both\"><img src=\"content/pic/trip1/hair.jpg\" alt=\"Tom on a bad hair day (hair.jpg)\" width=\"215\" height=\"210\" align=\"left\">Me, Habitat Brighton \r\n    Sailing Club or other alcohol serving establishment. Oceanhippie \r\n    rating = 100% oceanhippie. Drinks warm flat English beer*. \r\n    General character - pretty damn fabulous . Hat type.... kangaroo \r\n    skin. Nationality - Human<br />\r\n  * When I can get it </p>\r\n  <hr>\r\n  <h3>Dreamtime IV<a name=\"dream\"></a></h3>\r\n      <div align=\"center\" class=\"blog\"><p style=\"clear:both\"><img src=\"content/pic/trip1/DtTurkey.jpg\" alt=\"Dreamtime IV\" width=\"400\" height=\"306\"><br />\r\n    Tom - \"I have a good chandelrey near by what shoud I bring?\"<br />\r\n    Skanna - \"bring vegimite seasikness pills and all the harry \r\n    potter books.\"</p></div>\r\n  <p style=\"clear:both\"><img src=\"content/pic/rogue/camb.jpg\" alt=\"Campbell (with dignity)\" width=\"111\" height=\"117\" align=\"left\"> Scramble \r\n      Campbell, Habitat Gold Coast (a step up from native NZ?) Drinks \r\n      = Don Simon Blanco! oh those wonderful Spanish tetrapacks! Hat \r\n      type - hippie Madera hat (with tassle). Ocean hippie rating \r\n      Damn Good (shouts YEEE HAAAR when surfing off waves at 15Kn*). \r\n      Very keen to do the washing up, apparently keenness and skill \r\n      don\'t always amount to the same (I didn\'t say that ED) Nationality \r\n      - Kiwi <b>* - he lied it was only 14.7Kn</b></p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"clear:both\"><img src=\"content/pic/rogue/skanaonhorse.jpg\" alt=\"Lara Croft (Skanna)\" style=\"clear:both\" align=\"right\">Skanna \r\n       (named after the famous Killer Whale), Habitat - dry \r\n      land until Dreamtime. Drinks - Stubbies.........form a glass. \r\n      No Fearl \r\n      Sun hat ....macho Auzie types, huh. Studying witchcraft and \r\n      paganism (in that order), which is a pleasant change from the \r\n      Satanists I usually meet. Doesn\'t read \"good housekeeping\" \r\n      magazine.. prefers to rubbish the article on cruising couples \r\n      in \"Ocean Navigator\" (an american magazine and american\'s \r\n      have strange ideas about cruising, they all sail really slow \r\n      double enders, never trust a boat designed to go backwads) Nationality \r\n      - Auzzie </p>\r\n      <hr>\r\n      <h3 align=\"center\">Ramprasad.<a name=\"Sam\"></a> </h3>\r\n      <p style=\"clear:both\"><img src=\"content/pic/rogue/sam.jpg\" style=\"clear:both\" alt=\"Sam Coles sam.jpg\" width=\"128\" height=\"123\" align=\"left\"> Skipper. \r\n          Sam, habitat Brighton Sailing Club/Sussex Yacht Club, \r\n          Ocean hippie rating = Off scale, Drinks home brew. General character, \r\n          he\'s definitely got that. Hat type Bosuns cap. Nationality - \r\n      English (would secretly like to be Indian)Crew.</p>\r\n      <p style=\"clear:both\"> <img src=\"content/pic/rogue/simon.jpg\" style=\"clear:both\"  alt=\"Simon Mathews\" align=\"right\">Simon, habitat Brighton Sailing Club/RS400 circuit, Ocean \r\n          Hippie rating = dingy dinghy sailor. General character, most selfless \r\n          man in the history of round buying. Drinks Harveys Bitter and \r\n          Traditional cider. Lives in   \"the land of NOD\" where \r\n    ever that is. Hat type cap with foreign legion neck cloth (Hemp \r\n    of course). Nationality - English</p>\r\n      <p style=\"clear:both\"> <img src=\"content/pic/rogue/dawn.jpg\" style=\"clear:both\" alt=\"Doc Dawn dawn.jpg\" align=\"left\"> (Doc)Dawn, habitat Unknown hence no postcard (sorry) Mate, Ocean \r\n      Hippie rating =Yachts and trips, General character psychological \r\n      advice for my mates! Fetish for Whales (not the country idiot) \r\n      hat type big white foldy thing that makes standing difficult \r\n      in f2 or above. Nationality - English</p>\r\n    <p style=\"clear:both\"> </p>\r\n    <p style=\"clear:both\"><img src=\"content/pic/rogue/simeon.jpg\" width=\"83\" style=\"clear:both\"  height=\"74\" align=\"right\">Simeon \r\n      , habitat 50% y2k 50% not actually sailing at Brighton \r\n      Sailing Club. Drinks rum and 7up??!? when he can\'t get harveys. \r\n      Hat type baseball cap. Nationality - English (possible South \r\n      African Tendencies)</p>\r\n      <p style=\"clear:both\">Tim. Habitat unknown, \r\n        drinks very little. No hat errrrrrr......... Nationality - English</p>\r\n      <p style=\"clear:both\">Patric (not \r\n        Irish), habitat Backstage Welsh opera. Could be worse he Could be \r\n        understudy to the fat lady. Ocean hippie rating = went home early \r\n        for a job, drinks beer lager probably poor man, no hat preference \r\n        registered (he\'s in theatre he wears many hats) Nationality - English</p>\r\n      <p style=\"clear:both\">Jooles and \r\n        Hills.....and then there were 3, habitat unknown due to lifestyle \r\n        change <a href=\"http://www.brightonsailingclub.org.uk\">Brighton \r\n          SC</a>? Ocean Hippie Rating = no sailing for 18 years except possibly \r\n        an optimist.....Drinks much more since the baby probably. Nationality \r\n        - English</p>\r\n      <p style=\"clear:both\">Rauni, habitat \r\n        north of the arctic circle, drinks - quietly, compared with me and \r\n        Sam, Hat faded olive sun hat gives vietnam vets flashbacks. Oceanhippie \r\n        rating - learning fast. Somewhat nevous of maxi taxi drivers (Trini \r\n          buses</a>) Eats no meat no Fish no Eggs and No dairy Producs ................ \r\n        Exept cheese, lotts and lotts of cheese. Nationality - Finnish</p>\r\n      <p style=\"clear:both\">Matt \'Hamster\' \r\n         drinks - Harveys best bitter when not working for the heatherns. \r\n        Hat type - canvas Sun hat......And ITS MINE! Ocean hippie rating \r\n        - Sails a F18</a>, at <a href=\"http://www.brightonsailingclub.org.uk\">BSC</a>, every one \r\n        wants to crew on it no one ever crews twice, coincidence I think \r\n        not! Nationality - English/Malaysian</p>\r\n      <hr>\r\n      <h3 align=\"center\"><a href=\"http://www.ornen.com\">Ornen.</a><a name=\"ornen\"></a><br />\r\n      </h3>\r\n      <p align=\"center\"><img src=\"content/pic/trip1/all.jpg\" alt=\"Some of Örnen\'s Crew. Maja Börje Mia Sofia and Me.All.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"296\"><br />\r\nSome of Örnen\'s crew left to right Maja, Börje, Mia, Sofia, Me.</p>\r\n      <p style=\"clear:both\"> <img src=\"content/pic/rogue/tom.jpg\" width=\"128\" height=\"132\" align=\"left\">Skipper. \r\n        Tom, habitat North of Sweden /Thailand and Turtles when \r\n        he can get them. Drinks homebrewd Vodka or meths when out of Sweden. \r\n        Ocean Hippie rating = 1 year from home and not going back. Hat \r\n        type ...Mine last time I saw him! Nationality - Sweedish</p>\r\n		 <p style=\"clear:both\"> <img src=\"content/pic/rogue/borje.jpg\" align=\"right\" style=\"clear:both\"> Börje. Habitat Cuba or other dens of Communism. Drinks anything \r\n      and everything. Hat type old NYY cap. Reads Spanish equivalent \r\n      of Shakespeare average time per book 18 months. Nationality \r\n      - Swedish</p>\r\n	  <p style=\"clear:both\"><img src=\"content/pic/rogue/sofia.jpg\" alt=\"Sofia\" style=\"clear:both\" align=\"left\">Sofia, Habitat Stockholm school of meth\'s (as a philosopher), \r\n        Ocean hippie rating = Hippie yes Ocean no. Drinks vegetarian beer. \r\n        Character absolutely fabulous. Hat type bandana/ headscarf. Nationality \r\n        - Swedish</p>\r\n		<p style=\"clear:both\"> <img src=\"content/pic/rogue/maja.jpg\" style=\"clear:both\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Maja\"> Maja, Ocean Hippie rating = can make Danish pastries(possible \r\n      Swedish Pasties) on moving boat! Habitant Sweden Stockholm Photo \r\n      development lab. Hat type <strong>Huge</strong> & serious sunglasses. \r\n      Snap happy, to say the least. Drinks Drink! Nationality - Swedish</p>\r\n	  \r\n	  <p style=\"clear:both\"><img src=\"content/pic/rogue/richard.jpg\" alt=\"Richard\" style=\"clear:both\" align=\"left\">Richard Habitat Cambridgeshire stock exchange, drinks beer with \r\n        lime on top (see spitting image), oceanhippie rating great but \r\n        not on electric\'s.. Hat type another B****y cap. Nationality - \r\n        English</p>\r\n		\r\n		<p style=\"clear:both\"> Mia, Habitat Denmark, Drinks Rum, hat \r\n          type cap. Nationality - Danish</p>\r\n		  <p style=\"clear:both\"> Silvester de something or other, habitat Brazil, went to Trinidad believing they spoke Portuguese. They didn\'t nor do we... ERRRR. Hat type cap \r\n          (capo??) Drinks what ever we buy him he can\'t speak the lingo.... \r\n          Oceanhippie rating Fabulous every time you go to do something its \r\n          already done! Nationality - Brazilian</p>\r\n		  \r\n		   <p style=\"clear:both\">Mark, Habitat Alaska, drinks beer (but not as good as American beer), The Egg man, hat type HUGE brimmed cap. Nationality - US of Whatever</p>\r\n		   \r\n <p style=\"clear:both\">Abba, Habitat the sand box, hat type She don\'t wear one she\'s a cat! \r\n            Named by skipper to annoy me (I\'m not keen on Abba, no capital letter deliberately), Smells of fish flying ones usually, Doesn\'t drink but eats rare Galapagos Wildlife....OOPS. Not popular with Tongan Quarantine. Ausie Quarentine hasn\'t heard of her .... thank god! Nationality - Panamanian</p>\r\n			\r\n			<p style=\"clear:both\"><img src=\"content/pic/rogue/ros.jpg\" alt=\"Ros\" width=\"100\" height=\"98\" align=\"left\" style=\"clear:both\"> Roslyn \r\n            She used to be a weir wolf but she\'s all right NOOOOOO OOOWWWWWW- WWWW eeeeeeeeee eeeeee, Habitat Woolawaya New South Wales mate (austrucinfalian), Drinks and Drinks and Drinks and so on, Ocean hippie rating subject of controversy, believed to be a capitalist banking swine, known  to have consorted with a Communist. Believed on the run in Oz, Hat Type paint encrusted Shell cap (thereby hangs a tale) Nationality - Auzzie</p>\r\n			<p style=\"clear:both\">Sandra, habitat Kiwi Land Wherever that is, Ocean Hippie rating  known to have consorted with the deck of square riggers but not the rigging Tut Tut. Hat type cap again. Drinks \"I DON\'T DRINK WHISKEY\" Nationality - Kiwi</p>\r\n          \r\n<p style=\"clear:both\">Alex, Habitat Denmark, Drinks Coke poor man, Ocean Hippie rating = Still   under review (he hasn\'t hit any thing yet), Badly needs to get him self a hat! Nationality - Danish</p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"clear:both\">Kristian, Habitat Canada, the French part, likes advertising on telly can\'t understand those of us who have BBC style telly with no Ads! Strange Man, Ocean hippie rating Woke me up in the middle of the night to help him avoid some one! Hat type strange cap with neoprene brim (Alien Artefact)  drinks beer. Nationality - Canadian </p>\r\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\">\r\n<h3> </h3>\r\n      <div align=\"center\"><a name=\"ik2\"></a><img src=\"content/pic/ik2.png\" alt=\"Island Kea Logo\" width=\"200\" height=\"176\" >\r\n      </div>\r\n	  \r\n	  <p style=\"clear:both\"><img src=\"content/pic/rogue/steve.jpg\" alt=\"Steve\" align=\"left\" />Steve (skipper), habitat hash house harriers. Ocean hippie rating = ARC 2007.. and behond, drinks hook norton(in odd places), Americas cup sun hat. Nationality - English</p>\r\n	  <p style=\"clear:both\"><img src=\"content/pic/rogue/katrin.jpg\" alt=\"Katrin\" align=\"right\" />Katrin, habitat anywahere with Icelandic connections. Ocean hippie rating = fab, Whale beer? Hat - not oftern. Nationality - Icelandic</p>\r\n	  	  <p style=\"clear:both\"><img src=\"content/pic/rogue/caroline.jpg\" alt=\"Caroline\" align=\"left\" />Caroline, habitat Lagos! Ocean hippie rating = 120% - determined to smoke roll ups even in storm force 10. Boat bum, drinks more than me! \"Rising Cock\" cap. Nationality - Ex English (never going back)</p>\r\n          <hr noshade=\"noshade\">\r\n<h2>DISCLAIMER.</h2>\r\n<p>I\'ve said this before ANY RESEMBLANCE TO ANY PERSON LIVING OR DEAD it not only coincidental but ridiculously unlikely since I might as well have invented these people, since the really ones are nothing like this! They\'re worse..........</p>','','','','2007-10-14 15:02:36'),(420,11,'Animals and Children',6,'Caroline and Niel didn&#039;t get a hotel they got a house with 3 kids a goat 2 dogs some chickens and a sheep.','','DirtyHarry','Gros, islet, st, lucia,','2007-12-28 17:29:26'),(421,11,'Dirty Harry',2,'','DirtyHarry','420',NULL,'2007-12-28 17:29:26'),(422,11,'Me, Brendon and Goatee',2,'','GoateeBrendon','420',NULL,'2007-12-28 17:29:26'),(423,11,'Sheep',2,'','sheep','420',NULL,'2007-12-28 17:29:26'),(424,11,'Dancing Goat',2,'','DanceGoat','420',NULL,'2007-12-28 17:29:26'),(425,11,'Training the Goat',2,'','GoatTraining','420',NULL,'2007-12-28 17:29:26'),(426,11,'Never work with children or animals',2,'','RelaxMe','420',NULL,'2007-12-28 17:29:26'),(427,11,'Niel, Misha and Jonas',2,'','MiNiJo','420',NULL,'2007-12-28 17:29:26'),(428,11,'Front Yard',2,'','Wall','420',NULL,'2007-12-28 17:29:26'),(429,11,'Goat and Chicken',2,'','Chicken','420',NULL,'2007-12-28 17:29:26'),(430,11,'&quot;Ralph&quot;',2,'&quot;Ralph&quot;, was found and adopted, however his true owner age 1 was eventually re-united. However the name ralph has stuck, but after a night on the piss Ralph needs a bath before his owner can play with him again.\r\n','Ralph','420',NULL,'2007-12-28 17:29:26'),(431,11,'Bar in Gros Islet',2,'','Bar','420',NULL,'2007-12-28 17:29:26'),(432,11,'Misha',2,'','Misha','420',NULL,'2007-12-28 17:29:26'),(433,11,'Niel and Caroline&#039;s house',2,'','House','420',NULL,'2007-12-28 17:29:26'),(288,10,'Punch Judy MySpace',5,'Sherm\'s band\'s myspace','http://www.myspace.com/punchjudy','1',NULL,'2007-10-22 17:31:45'),(309,2,'Last Sail',6,'This is (porbably) my final flings in an RS600, gusty and grey and sunney and windless on the 2 days.','http://www.rs-association.com/index.asp?fleet=RS600','PA240031','rs600, skiff, gusty, laser II, BRighton, Sailing , Club','2007-10-26 09:54:06'),(310,2,'Standing on the foredeck to lift the transom out of the water.',2,'','PA210007','309',NULL,'2007-10-26 09:54:06'),(311,2,'Optimisically looking to go our onthe wire',2,'','PA210056','309',NULL,'2007-10-26 09:54:06'),(312,2,'',2,'','PA210059','309',NULL,'2007-10-26 09:54:06'),(313,2,'',2,'','PA210060','309',NULL,'2007-10-26 09:54:06'),(314,2,'',2,'','PA240007','309',NULL,'2007-10-26 09:54:06'),(315,2,'',2,'','PA240024','309',NULL,'2007-10-26 09:54:06'),(316,2,'',2,'','PA240025','309',NULL,'2007-10-26 09:54:06'),(317,2,'',2,'','PA240026','309',NULL,'2007-10-26 09:54:06'),(318,2,'It only takes a little gust to get going.',2,'','PA240027','309',NULL,'2007-10-26 09:54:06'),(319,2,'',2,'','PA240030','309',NULL,'2007-10-26 09:54:06'),(320,2,'',2,'','PA240031','309',NULL,'2007-10-26 09:54:06'),(321,2,'Matt and Jon Twinning the 14',2,'','PA240038','309',NULL,'2007-10-26 09:54:06'),(322,2,'',2,'','PA240041','309',NULL,'2007-10-26 09:54:06'),(323,2,'',2,'','PA240044','309',NULL,'2007-10-26 09:54:06'),(324,3,'Dead badger?',3,'<a href=\"http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"> Installing Linux on a Dead badger.</a> Priceless!<br />\r\n<br />\r\nTom','http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml','','','2007-10-29 15:01:00'),(330,3,'SurvialGear',3,'<p>A big thankyou to Brighton Sailing(Drinking) Club, who\'ve bought me some new Olilies. Probably the most expencive and most respecable item of Clothing I own(or ever have). A very big thankyou to all of you.</p>\r\n\r\n<h3>However....</h3>\r\n<p>They also gave me a \"survial kit\" containing:\r\n<li>rubber gloves (don\'t ask)\r\n<li>vaseleine (see above)\r\n<li>johnsons baby powder (shark repelent?)\r\n<li>baked beans (for lack of wind)\r\n<li>wind settlers tablets (for hurricanes)\r\n<li>primark boxershorts\r\n<li>deoderant\r\n<li>pulling pants (blue y fonts with pink trim.\r\n<li>dioralate\r\n<li>gaffertape\r\n<li>ear plugs (for the rest of the boat I belive)\r\n<li>gloves in a bottle\r\n<li>and a gay pride whisle\r\n<li>flavoured condoms (emergency rations?)\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p>exactly what this will help me survive is unclear, attack by a gay seamonster?</p>','http://www.brightonsc.org.uk','','pulling,pants,lube,vaseline','2007-11-09 10:08:03'),(328,3,'Website hosted by Christopher Robin',3,'This website is now countrified, since I\'m leaving the country this server had to go.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nOk so server is an exageration its a MiniITX box running Linux. Well Dave has kindly agreed to look after it for me. Which is very kind of him. He now lives in the Ashdown Forest.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nIts mostly famous for Winne the Pooh. Principally the original bridge used for Pooh Sticks. <br />\r\n<br />\r\nWoot.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nIn other words this is the \"<i>Webiste at Pooh Corner</i>\", the main diffenece being the adition of an \"h\".... <br />\r\n<br />\r\nAny way thanks very much Dave and I am slightly jealous of your house, a nicer spot in the country you\'d be hard pressed to find. (Tom exits stage right to write a really irritaing FaceBook app for pooh sticks) <br />\r\n<br />\r\nRead Dave\'s Blog, \"<a href=\"http://www.davephelan.org/blog/\" target=\"_blank\" >Insufficient Time</a>\"<br />\r\n<br />\r\nTom','http://www.davephelan.org/blog/','','dave','2007-11-06 22:19:33'),(331,3,'Off Today',3,'<img align=\\\"right\\\" src=\\\"content/pic/pp.jpg\\\">Well I\\\'m ready to go. Well nearly. I\\\'ll find some internet in gran canaria sometime before I head off.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nWonder what I\\\'ve forgotton. I hope it nothing important. My back in 2 kilos over weight. I look like a terrorist. The top of the back pack contains my loverly \\\"pulling pants\\\" best primark y fronts with a pink trim. Hope I don\\\'t have to unpack it.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nHee he. Going now. This is displacement activity. And a temporay post will probably be over written.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nTom','','','','2007-11-12 09:08:57'),(332,3,'Arrived',3,'<img src=\"content/pic/gc1.jpg\" align=\"right\">Arrived in Gran Canaria, this time without the 9 hour delay.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nBoat is great, already fixed the inverter and the ciggy lighter socket, so got power for the laptop.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nMarina bar has wifi, so geeking is go. Gonna put some photos on face book at some point.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nTom<br />\r\n','http://blog.mailasail.com/everett','','Isand Kea II','2007-11-13 18:51:08'),(333,11,'Keep Track of Tom',3,'During the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, all the boats call in their position. You should be able to tell where I am here:<br />\r\n<br />\r\n<a href=\"http://www.worldcruising.net/boat3.asp?BoatID=1239&\" target=\"blank\">click here for our progress.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nWell thats the theory. In my previous ARC, we had no satelight, no SSB wich meant we could only talk to boats in a 25 mile radius. Thats not much boats in an ocean 2800 wide.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nClick away!<br />\r\n<br />\r\nTom<br />\r\n<br />\r\n','http://www.worldcruising.net/boat3.asp?BoatID=1239&','','yacht, tracking, atlantic, rally, cruising, ','2007-11-14 20:41:34'),(335,11,'Gran Canaria',3,'\r\n<div align=\"center\"><img src=\"content/pic/gc/teror.JPG\" alt=\"Teror 12 km Sign\" width=\"650\" height=\"271\" /><br />\r\n</div>\r\n<h3>Virgins and Pine Tees.</h3>\r\n<p>I\'ve never seen Gran Canaria, this is my third visit. I have previously experienced</p>\r\n<img src=\"content/pic/gc/tat.JPG\" alt=\"tat, loads of tat.\" / align=\"right\"><ul>\r\n  <li>The Hiperdino (Spanish ASDA)</li>\r\n  <li>El Corte Ingles (Giant Department Store with food hall)</li>\r\n  <li>The Market</li>\r\n  <li>Muelle Deportiva (Marina)</li>\r\n  <li>Don Pedro (Fueling Dock)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>I\'ve taken the Bilges, locker bottoms, engine oil and bars as read.</p>\r\n<p>I was determined this time to see the island since the above was within walking distance of the marina. So I signed up with the ARC bus tour, and found out loads of wonderfully facts about local politics, plants, towns, villages, crops and types of rock that I will, you will be relieved to hear, not be sharing with you.</p>\r\n<p>I did discover Gran Canaria is a beautiful island, with stonking views and great stuff. I may have formally referred to it as \"dull brown\". Since the view only came from the windows of a car on the motorway from the airport I hope I can be excused.</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><img src=\"content/pic/gc/viewLP.JPG\" alt=\"View of Las Palmas \" width=\"650\" height=\"354\" /></p>\r\n<p>Gran Canaria is Volcanic, the above is a view of Las Palmas, from the top of one of the Calderas, the caldera itself is bellow. The road winds round a peak to the north, and I mean winds. The Lady from the atlantic rally for cruisers sat next to me squeaked. Rather a lot. She was scared of heights. See plummet below. </p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><img src=\"content/pic/gc/caldera.jpg\" alt=\"A Cladera\" /></p>\r\n<p>Apparently the Canaries are divided into two administrative districts, due to the incessant arguments over where the capital should be. The point was illustrated by the following joke:</p>\r\n<p class=\"blog\">There were 5 people on a Plane, the Pilot a Priest (catholic obviously) a hippie a man from Further and a man from Gran Canaria. The pilot says \"the plane is broken,\" the joke was in splanglish, \"but we\'ve only got four parachutes. I\'m having one parachute, and we must give one to the Priest as there are very few priests these days. We must give one to the hippie because they are rare too. You two must decide which of you gets the parachute.\" The Gran Canarian reply\'s. \"We Gran Canarians are bold, Fearless, and strong, I will go without.\" The Furterventuran immediately jumps out of the plane. The pilot says \"That was very foolish of you you will be killed without a parachute.\" The Gran canarian responds, no I won\'t I\'ve got the parachute I gave the Furterventuran the hippies rucksak.</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">I cannot describe the windyness of the roads, a coach finds it hard going. The Virgins make the whole crawl round bends on the edge of bottomless pits more interesting. Maria our excellent and extremely verbose guide told us about them. The first one told the invading spanish where the locals lay in ambush, though she did admit that she may have been \"Quizzed\" about the matter rather than volunteering the information. Given translation the similarity between \"quiz\" and \"inquisition\" worry me slightly. Excuse my cyincism but her status as a virgin saint may be someone\'s guilty conscience. The other virgin is some lass with pine trees. Search me it was information overload. However pretty girls hanging out in pine woods? I recon she was sneaking out with her boyfriend. </p>\r\n<p align=\"left\"><img src=\"content/pic/gc/spanishManLeg.jpg\" alt=\"Spanish Man\'s Legs\" width=\"200\" height=\"363\" align=\"right\" />Which brings me to the subject of spanish men. Apparently their legs look like this. I\'m in here, hairy legs are obviously acceptable.</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">Canarians have some different words to the rest of spain. Kinewas is one (I\'m writing it as I heard it), outedatas is another. Both are used for potatoes. The derivations is easy. The potatoe varieties came in from England than they just read out the labels as best they could. Kinewas is of course \"King Edwards\" and \"outedatas\" is \"out of date\". It appears British trading practice is as dodgy as ever.</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">I haven\'t seen the southern end of the island. Its the touristy area. I have heard several seminars on Atlantic crossings, and when the trade winds blow the southern end of the island is a \"wind acceleration zone\" which is why its popular with wind surfers and kite surfers. Of course its also full of germans.</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">Gran canaria is high. The bus wound its way up to 1700m I took a GPS and my waterproof digital camera has a manometer in it and tags your photos with depth as well as the normal stuff. It tells you the pressure, so it tell you the height. The pressure it reads here at sea level is 1000hPa. Up top there 840hPa. That\'s 15% drop in pressure. Noticeably thinner air.</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">I do love my toys. Will ad an image from the GPS track here when I can  </p>\r\n<div align=\"center\"><img src=\"content/pic/gc/map.jpg\" alt=\"Teror 12 km Sign\" /><br />\r\n</div>','','','vrigins, pine, tree, Gran, Canaria, teror, cadera, mountian, volcano','2007-11-17 14:08:54'),(336,3,'Damn I are good.',3,'He he...<br />\r\n<br />\r\nSkilled crew. I just fixed the wifi in the marina in Las Palmas. Damn I\'m good.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nGood Job they didn\'t change the default password on the router!<br />\r\n','','','wifi, damn, Im, good','2007-11-20 13:58:27'),(372,10,'NARC or ARC? that is the question.',3,'<p><img src=\"content/pic/ARC.jpg\" alt=\"Start of the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" align=\"right\">NARC or ARC? that is the question.</p>\r\n<p>For hundreds of years boats have been gathering in Gran Canaria and sailing off the caribbean. In fact its been happeneing every year since Columbus started in in 1492. This is the NARC. The \"Not Atlantic Rally for Cruisers\". The naming of this may seem at little strange to those who\'re not famiure with the ARC.</p>\r\n<p>The ARC is the \"Atlantic Rally for Cruisers\". Its about 20 years old, its an organised buisness, bassed around getting boats on mass to sail accross the Atlantic. Basically its just like the NARC but with parties.</p>\r\n<p>Ok so thats a little unfair, the ARC is a great event with good spirit, well orgaised and they even call it a sort of race. It also provides seminars and help and radio nets and so on and so forth. Its also true that a lot of NARC\'s gatecrash their parties. The ARC team are wonderful help full friendly people. They therefore make lousy bouncers. </p>\r\n	<div class=\"blog\">\r\n	  <h3>A comparison of features NARC and ARC:\r\n	  </h3>\r\n	  <table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <th width=\"50%\" scope=\"col\">ARC</th>\r\n    <th width=\"50%\" scope=\"col\">NARC</th>\r\n  </tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td width=\"50%\">You get loads of parties </td>\r\n    <td width=\"50%\">You get to blag your way into loads of ARC parties. </td>\r\n  </tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td width=\"50%\">Seminars on weather provisioning etc </td>\r\n    <td width=\"50%\">You get to sit in cockpits/bars taking about weather (probably the same guys who\'s doing a talks for the ARC) </td>\r\n  </tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td width=\"50%\">Orgaised radio nets </td>\r\n    <td width=\"50%\"><p>You get to organise your own radio net. </p>      </td>\r\n  </tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td>You get the happy worm glow of being in the ARC </td>\r\n    <td><p>You get a happy warm glow of money in your bank account. </p>      </td>\r\n  </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</div>\r\n    <p>The ARC is good fun, its informative, its well organised and 2 of my three East West Crossings have been on the ARC. I would do it again, if I could afford it (taint cheap). Its very popular with first time pond crossers. For obvious reasons, if you\'ve never crossed the Atlantic before its very re-assuring, to have all those other boats glued to their SSB listening for you. Every year, some one gets into trouble. Several have this year. Boarding by a boat loads of illegal immagrents, burns, engine failure etc. Also usually someone loses a rudder or a rig. This presumably happens to NARCs as well. I\'m just wondering if the poroportion of problems is more or less on the ARC. I have this horrid suspician it may be more. The ARC has loads of new boats, the NARC old and tested boats. The NARC has loads of repeat crossers, the ARC has many first timers.</p>\r\n    ','http://www.worldcruising.com/arc/','','ARC, NARC, Atlantic Crossing','2007-12-02 18:37:23'),(338,3,'Cats and Dogs',3,'<p align=\"center\"><img src=\"content/pic/GCpan1Small.jpg\"></P>\r\n<p>This isn\'t making getting ready to leave any easier. Its chucking it down I want to do my laundry, the block on the boom is held to gether with insulating tape to make so I can get a replacment screw and its chucking it down. Woot</p>\r\n\r\n<p>My back hurts, trying to manover 4 200Ah batteries along a pontoon, over a gang plank, through a boat and into some bilgewater infested holes in the floor and of course the reciprical with their predessors will do that to you.</P>\r\n\r\n<p>So yesterday it was bilgewater and heavy lifting, today rain. Tommorow its the market and buying 3 weeks worth of friut and veg. Glamourous life I lead.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>\"<b>Bilge water</b>\" a definition: The \"<i>bilge</i>\" is the lowest part of the boat. Where water collects. Since gravity is univeral and aplies to other liquids and solids, the phrase \"<i>bilge water</i>\" is deceptive since it neither looks or smells like even the vilest pond water.</P>\r\n\r\n<h3>Simulalating Bilge Water at home</h3>\r\n\r\n<p><img src=\"content/pic/bilgeRat.jpg\" align=\"right\">For proper effect at home you require one bucket, some protective clothing (the sort normaly used in Nuclear Power stations). The Hoover, some nail clippers, some bath water prefereably at least third hand. A spanner and a car jack. Dip the bucket in the bath, half fill it with water - wear protective clothing. Then pop the lid on the hoover, pour the contents of the bag into the bucket. Clip your toe nails, add them. Now take the bucket and add go to the street, find the most decrepit old white van in the street jack it up and use the spanner to drain its oil into the bucket. If you want add flour, gravy, urine, random nicknacks, beer and wine to taste.</P>\r\n\r\n<p>Stir and store in the airing cupboard for 6 months to simulate the tropics. Shaking occationally to simulate motion of the boat. 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Or Ninteenth hole ofhte golf course.','PB160102','354',NULL,'2007-11-22 17:36:01'),(361,11,'Hills',2,'Me and some scenery.','PB160111','354',NULL,'2007-11-22 17:36:01'),(362,11,'Las Palmas',2,'Taken from the top of a volcano.','PB160114','354',NULL,'2007-11-22 17:36:01'),(363,11,'Me',2,'Nuff said.','PB160122','354',NULL,'2007-11-22 17:36:01'),(364,11,'Tat',2,'Its good to know complete rubish is available well behond england.\r\n','PB160129','354',NULL,'2007-11-22 17:36:01'),(365,11,'Tenerife',2,'','PB160132','354',NULL,'2007-11-22 17:36:01'),(366,11,'I can see my boat from here',2,'I think. A mear 1600m up.','PB160137','354',NULL,'2007-11-22 17:36:01'),(367,11,'Tenerife',2,'Just visible in the background is Tenerife','PB160149','354',NULL,'2007-11-22 17:36:01'),(368,11,'Teror!',2,'12Km to certain death.','PB160154','354',NULL,'2007-11-22 17:36:01'),(369,11,'A Virgin',2,'THe Virgin of the pines? Taken in terror, I mean teror.','PB160157','354',NULL,'2007-11-22 17:36:01'),(370,11,'Canaries',2,'Lots of birds round here.','PB160172','354',NULL,'2007-11-22 17:36:01'),(371,3,'At Sea',3,'<p align=\"center\"><img src=\"content/pic/IK2atSea.jpg\" alt=\"Islan Kea II at Sea\"></p>\r\n<p>  Ships Blog, boat date 3.1 days, 28th November. this is Bilge boy Tom talking to an audience of 1. I.E. I\'ve got no way of actually posting this to the internet.<br />\r\n  <br />\r\n  Standard quote is: <i>Sail south until the butter melts and then turn right</i>, well we decided to turn right early.<br />\r\n  <br />\r\n  <img src=\"content/pic/locust.jpg\" alt=\"Plague\" align=\"right\">Oops blogging interrupted by possible Whales sited, blows and so on too far away to really see.<br />\r\n  <br />\r\n  There have been 4 sets of marine mammals so far one per day. Which is nice.<br />\r\n  <br />\r\n  Also the navtex (for landlubbers its a very slow text based navigational/weather warning system) reports a plague of locusts. I\'ve seen wonderful navtex reports before, including the car transporter ship sinking etc. Never in my wildest dreams did I expect locusts to constitute a hazard to shipping.<br />\r\n  <br />\r\n  Weather is already warming up. Wind irritatingly drops towards sunset. We don\'t have quite as much wind as we\'d like, we\'re expecting a 21 day passage. The ARC average. That means keeping an average of 6 knots or 144Nm per day. So far its been about 120Nm 5kn.<br />\r\n  <br /> \r\n  Its proper dark tonight. Moon hasn\'t risen yet. Its cloudy too. No ships or lights. Just a black hole behind the boat, you can hear the water washing by rather than see it. Ghostly reflections of the guard rail and and occasional blob of phosphorescence in the wake.<br /> \r\n  <br />\r\n  The Atlantic so far has been busier than I remember. More ships seen already than my previous crossings.<br /> \r\n  <br />\r\n  First flying fish fond on deck today. Small one. The water temp sensor on the boat is telling porky pies. Its over reading. however its risen by 2 degrees since Gran Canaria.</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\"Tidiness is next to Godliness, fortunately I am an Atheist\" <i>Tom Griffiths 2007</i></p>\r\n<p>  Last night was spent without autopilot. It broke, fortunately just a loose bolt. Its not much fun having to steer all watch, all alone, when you can\'t take your hands off the wheel. Waking Caroline up for the next watch consisted of running to the fore cabin and back again before we got too far off course.<br /> \r\n  <br />\r\n  To fix the george (the autopilot) we had to empty the one of the cockpit lockers. This is tricky, coos I spent about an hour cramming 2 bikes, a fender, three gas bottles, 4 buckets, 2 gerry cans, 2 oars and another halftone of smaller crap into it. Caroline aptly described this as \"Tetris\". Fortunately Steve got the job of crawling in to the locker and getting under the cockpit of a moving boat and lining the rudder quadrant up with the autopilot ram. </p>\r\n<hr>\r\nDay 4 (November 29th) Hammer down today. Clouds look like proper trade wind clouds, wind\'s up. We spent the daylight hours flying along under the main and cruising chute. Never set a cruising chute before. Great on a beam reach. Yee ha. Actually Steve and Katrin have only set it the once before, we weren\'t quite sure where to sheet it. Got that wrong. chafed its way through the sheet in a few hours.\r\n<hr>\r\n<img src=\"content/pic/fish.jpg\" alt=\"Fish\" width=\"280\" height=\"247\" align=\"left\">Day 6(December 1st), today\'s been a cracker. Hot, flying fish swooping all over. Been running downwind at 7+ knots under parasailor, after we fixed the spinnaker pole universal joint that is. We spent yesterday periodically hammering a pin back into it. I swear this is the second time I\'ve had one of these go on me mid Atlantic. A parasailor is a blooming great spinnaker with a slot in it, in the slot is a kite. Weird.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nWe got the fishing gear out yesterday. I spent most of yesterday untangling the line. Today we caught a nice big Dorado.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nWe appear to be catching some of our division. The race boys are miles ahead. Well most of them. Pindar, a Volvo 60, is presumably behind us still. We last saw their carbon racy ass beating back towards Las Palmas under headsail alone about 4 hours into the fist day.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nTo be fair to them, we\'ve had our share of troubles. Some boats have had far far worse. One of the race boats has a burn patient on board. Another lost their rudder and got a rope round their propeller on the first day and got towed in. One, 4 days out into the atlantic, were boarded by illegal immigrants, poor buggers were probably in serious trouble that far into the Atlantic. They got control of their boat back I think. Saw a boat loose their boom on the start line and heard another go back with engine trouble, since then their have been various blown parasails etc. All in all I\'m happy with our compass that doesn\'t point north and a crew member with a bruised bottom.\r\n<hr>\r\nSteve recons I should be able to got this to go through the irdium satellite phone. Will try and post this to the web tomorrow. Position is position now. Sunset on the 6th day out from GC, December 1st. Glad I didn\'t bring an advent calendar. The Chocies would have melted by now.\r\n<hr>\r\nWell that didn\'t work, suspect my server may be down. Ooops. Dave did say his ADSL was a bit dickey, as was his electricity.\r\n<hr>\r\n<p><img src=\"content/pic/bodge.jpg\" alt=\"bodge\" width=\"280\" height=\"240\" align=\"right\">Day 10 and a bit. Well the Autopilot broke again, this time the brand spanking new hydraulic ram and pump unit, put in just because the old one was old. Its only been in since Gib and it died. I spent about an hour upside down in a locker, leaning under the aft cockpit, though a tiny hatch removing the new ram and putting the old one back in. Woot. That was fun.<br>\r\n  <br>\r\nSpinnaker pole has gone again too. Now its held together by, a boat hook, a block of wood, a jubilee clip some string and some gaffer tape. Damn were good.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nAll troubles aside, we had a couple of slow days pole less, and heading south to avoid a big hole in the wind. Yesterday we ran most of the daylight hours under cruising chute, charging along. Today we were running with the Parasailor up. Till the wind hit 28 knots, which is brown shorts time. <br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<img src=\"content/pic/halfWay.jpg\" alt=\"half way \" width=\"280\" height=\"195\" align=\"left\">Anyway, pole is back up and we\'re half way to St Lucia. Some time in the night actually. Bubbly for lunch, and sandwiches. Yesterdays lunch was better. It was tuna sweet corn pasta salad, with onion and tomato salad on the side, made by yours truly.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nHang on I made a salad, none of you are going to believe that are you? Damn, damn, damn should have photographed it damn. Oh well no one will have read this far through a blog entry this long anyway. Managed to get off my cooking day by spending the time fixing george the autopilot. Think I should have cooked.....</p>\r\n<p>Last night was kind of nervous, somewhere out there is a yacht, a NARC yacht, who\'s crew abandoned it several days ago. There\'s a saying amuncst sailors. \"You only step up into a life raft\", as in if your not actually sinking don\'t get into the life raft. They abandoned to a life raft. cos of a problem with a chain plate, aside from that the boats fine and merrily making its way to the Caribbean. Chain plates are the metal load spreading straps on the hull the rigging is bolted too. Think of them as foundations for a mast. Nasty but not \"abandon ship\". This happened several days ago. They left the nav lights on, but the batteries will be long flat by now. Yachts are plastic (usually) and therefore right buggers to pickup on radar. Normally you assume the guy on the other boat will be paying attention, even if he got his lights off. The Marie Fucking Celeste, is another matter. </p>\r\n<hr />\r\n<p><img src=\"content/pic/blueWater.jpg\" alt=\"Blue water sailing\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" align=\"left\" />Day 14, Sunday the 9th. <br />\r\nThe weather has been very trying for the last few days. It started off 3? 4? nights ago. I was on watch at 2:30AM black cloud visible so I reefed. Not enough, not nearly enough. The 43 knots (Severe Gale 9). You need a lot of reefs in that sort of breeze. The cloud wasn\'t just a squall. We were still under bare poles at 4:30 when I finally got to go below.</p>\r\n<p>It rained from then till the following evening. Incessantly. To keep the boat dry you have to keep the hatches closed. Its like a sauner down bellow. On deck its soaking and too windy to be comfortable.</p>\r\n<p>The waves where coming from 2 directions, making it very uncomfortable. The rain finally stopped just before it got dark. The sun came out ahead. Ahead! the wind was from behind how did it come out ahead?</p>\r\n<p>Instead of clearing up the wind rose and rose. We were doing watch on watch 1 hour on one hour off in pairs. With me and Steve taking it in turns to helm. Too windy for the others and the autopilot. Steady wind in the high thirties (gale force 8), prolonged periods in the the low 40\'s (Severe Gale 9). In gusts 46 knots (storm force 10) seen on the deck instruments which seem smoothed, the spikier NMEA down below. Saw a 49 and a 50 knot appear. Not fun at all. Boat doing 11 knots under bare poles.</p>\r\n<p><img src=\"content/pic/missery.jpg\" alt=\"Squall\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" align=\"right\" />The following day was at least sunny, with horrid squalls all over the place. I had a nice shower in one of them. 30+ knots for prolonged periods was common place. Squalls are so wet visibility is in feet. Rain is in inches per minute. Sea boils. Nice..... </p>\r\n<p>The  morning of day 13 was squally again. 42 knots of breeze, me driving in a battened down boat in my boxers. biblically wet. Noah was a wuss. 42 knot power shower. 40 knots of driving rain stings.</p>\r\n<p>After the mooring squall the rain set in again. Solid lake district  holiday style rain, sometimes worse. Wind between low 20\'s and mid thirties. Huge mixed up sea. Horrible motion. Not fun, everything damp or worse. Rained for 18 hours non stop. I made bread, which didn\'t help the sauner down below. </p>\r\n<p>This mooring (Day 14) has dawned sunny wind is down, sea still confused but not so bad. Sun, glorious sun. Cockpit is covered in olives tea towels and other wet stuff. Everyone is so happy. We can still see the rain etc behind. So this may only be a rest bite. But its so welcome.</p>\r\n<p><img src=\"content/pic/bunInOven.jpg\" alt=\"Bun in the oven\" width=\"280\" height=\"213\" align=\"left\" />Its been 2 weeks since the pub. 2 weeks since the internet. Hell no beer yesterday. I\'m loosing weight. Sure of it. So\'s everyone. Were eating like kings its gotta be the booze. That and the stress and effort of living on a boat where gale force gusts aren\'t even registered anymore.</p>\r\n<p>Those of you that haven\'t done much yotting, I can\'t begin to describe how difficult it can get. Everything moves. In 4 dimensions. The cooker is on pivots. The pots have to be clamped or wedged in. Pouring the tea is downright dangerous. Nothing can be put down or it will fall over or fly across the cabin. In weather like we\'ve been having everything is we or covered in condensation. Those of you who have been sailing, will know what I mean. However normally these things happen in the channel or north sea, where shelter is a day away at most. Lifeboats can get to you etc. We\'d just passed half way across the Atlantic ocean when the bad weather hit. We had to sit through 4 days of it. No chose. No helicopter can operate out here they don\'t have the range. Lots of yachts are having it far worse than us. Boom\'s sails and rigging lost. \"Spam\" a boat ahead of us lost her rig and was taking on water. Her 3 crew are safe aboard another yacht and she\'s presumably sunk. That\'s 2 yachts lost so far. </p>\r\n<p>Since I wrote the blog this morning, the autopilot (now called \"Georgina\") has gone again. Sheered bolt this time. However the spare bolt is fatter than the old bolt. There is a removable plastic bush on the universal joint that allows a fatter bolt. Removable my arse not on the old ram. So we took the UJ off the new ram (that\'s the one in box wot doesn\'t work, remember? Do try and keep up...) and stuck it on the old one. Phew.</p>\r\n<p>I am so glad it didn\'t go in the last few days while we were having awful weather. It wasn\'t like we trusted the autopilot in the heavy stuff but when it can handle it its so nice to have. Here\'s a handy guide to Island Kea II\'s autopilot. Sung by the Mid Atlantic Gospel Choir:</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">The Autopilots connected to the Drive Computer,<br />\r\nThe drive computers\'s connected to the connection box,<br />\r\nThe connection box is connected to the Hydraulic ram<br />\r\nThe hydraulic ram\'s connected to the UJ,<br />\r\nThe UJ\'s connected to the bolt,<br />\r\nThe bolt\'s connected to the quadrant,<br />\r\nThe quadrant\'s connected to the rudder post.</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">So hear the word of the lord... </p>\r\n<p>I\'m intimately familiar with that lot now. </p>\r\n','','','mid, ocean, atlantic, island, kea, II','2007-11-28 17:41:45'),(373,3,'An Atlantic Crossing in Pictures',3,'Take one Digital camera, one GPS, an ocean and Google Earth and you can gps your pics and attach them to google earth. <br />\r\n<br />\r\nNOTE: you need to have google earth installed for this to work, its a free down load!<br />\r\n<br />\r\nUse the folloing link to view my Alantic Crossing route and some select pictures from it.<br />\r\n<a href=\"http://www.oceanhippie.net/content/pic/gal/ARC%202007/ARC%202007.kmz\">http://www.oceanhippie.net/content/pic/gal/ARC%202007/ARC%202007.kmz</a><br />\r\n<br />\r\nThere\'ll be a <a href=\"gal.php?gal=374\">conventional photo gallery</a> too.<br />\r\nAlso I have added an <a href=\"feed.php\">RSS feed</a> for you geeks out there, this blog only full content else where. \r\n<br />\r\nTom<br />\r\n','http://www.oceanhippie.net/content/pic/gal/ARC%202007/ARC%202007.kmz','','Google, earth, 2007, arc','2007-12-14 19:50:41'),(374,11,'ARC 2007',6,'The Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, 2007. See also <a href=\"http://www.oceanhippie.net/content/pic/gal/ARC%202007/ARC%202007.kmz\">http://www.oceanhippie.net/content/pic/gal/ARC%202007/ARC%202007.kmz</a> if you have google earth installed','','fish','ARC, crossing, atlantic','2007-12-14 19:53:28'),(375,11,'Wet',2,'','wet','374',NULL,'2007-12-14 19:53:28'),(376,11,'Dropping the Kite',2,'','work','374',NULL,'2007-12-14 19:53:28'),(377,11,'Arrival',2,'','arived','374',NULL,'2007-12-14 19:53:28'),(378,11,'A Dolphin',2,'','dolphin','374',NULL,'2007-12-14 19:53:28'),(379,11,'Caroline scrubbing veg',2,'','provisoning','374',NULL,'2007-12-14 19:53:28'),(380,11,'All at Sea',2,'','atSea','374',NULL,'2007-12-14 19:53:28'),(381,11,'Repairs to the pole',2,'Some gaffer tape, a boat hook, a jubille clib and some string. Robert is very mutch your mothers brother.','bodge','374',NULL,'2007-12-14 19:53:28'),(382,11,'Helming in squall in my boxers',2,'Seemed a shame to get any more clothes wet, 42 knot rain stings!','boxers','374',NULL,'2007-12-14 19:53:28'),(383,11,'Making Bread',2,'\r\n','bread','374',NULL,'2007-12-14 19:53:28'),(384,11,'Washing off',2,'','bucket','374',NULL,'2007-12-14 19:53:28'),(385,11,'Dawn on watch',2,'','dawn','374',NULL,'2007-12-14 19:53:28'),(386,11,'Fish',2,'Its a dorado, it tasted good.','fish','374',NULL,'2007-12-14 19:53:28'),(387,11,'Half way',2,'Break out the bubbly.\r\n','halfway','374',NULL,'2007-12-14 19:53:28'),(388,11,'Land Ho',2,'','horison','374',NULL,'2007-12-14 19:53:28'),(389,11,'Pigeon Island',2,'','pigeonIsland','374',NULL,'2007-12-14 19:53:28'),(390,11,'Rained all day',2,'','rain','374',NULL,'2007-12-14 19:53:28'),(391,11,'Chart',2,'','route','374',NULL,'2007-12-14 19:53:28'),(392,11,'Pilates of the Caribbean',2,'','ship','374',NULL,'2007-12-14 19:53:28'),(393,11,'Squall',2,'','squall','374',NULL,'2007-12-14 19:53:28'),(394,11,'ARC Start Line',2,'','start','374',NULL,'2007-12-14 19:53:28'),(395,11,'Stormy Weather',2,'','storm','374',NULL,'2007-12-14 19:53:28'),(396,3,'Karma',3,'We\'ve all been watching my name is earl. Karma is a very fasionable concept.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nIn 1998 I left my sun glasses on a rock on Reduit Beach. I remembered and went back for them, too late unfortunatly they\'ed gone.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nToday while wading ashore on Reduit Beach, in about 2 feet of water were some sunglasses. The old pair I lost were cheap and nasty. Now I have some rather natty oakleys. Karma dictates I should track down the owner. However this is the Caribbean and that sounds like hard work. Also things on land and things in the sea are different. These were in the sea. So thats salvage, not theft. I doubt they are jetsum, more likly flotsum so its salvage.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nI bought a mask snorkel and flipper set for &#8364;22, the mask didn\'t leak at all. In fact its great for spotting sunken sun glasses. Nice buy.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nI should fix that google earth thing, while this goes up, its link is:<br />\r\nhttp://www.oceanhippie.net/content/pic/gal/ARC%202007/ARC%202007.kmz<br />\r\nHopefully the file will actually upload this time.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nEither that or I will blow it up with an exploding lifejacket. These wonder full gagets auto inflate when you fall in. Woot. Since I havn\'t fallen in however I can\'t vouch for that. They definatly go off when they get wet.... We\'ve had 2 spontaniously explode into fully inflated mode.<br />\r\n','','','','2007-12-16 23:32:43'),(397,3,'Roundabouts - Imperialist Agression',3,'<div align=\"center\"><img src=\"content/pic/Rastaboat.jpg\"></div>\r\nSt Lucia now has roundabouts, it didn\'t last time I was here. The locals blame the English. Apparently they were intoduced by the british to keep them down, post colonial medeling and all that.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nWent zip lining through the rain forest today. Fun! Twas the guide that came up with that thought. He also said:<br />\r\n<br />\r\n\"There are no stupid questions? You\'ve hear that phrase? Well its rubish \'Does it rain in the rainforest, that\'s a stupid question\'\"<br />\r\n<br />\r\nHe\'s right you know. Well maybe not the bit about the roundabouts.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nHe gave us some tips on different Lucain rums, Chairmans reserve, Admiral Rodney (platinum award winner) and \"element 8\" or possibly \"8 element\" he couldn\'t remember. He said \"drink element 8 and you won\'t know who you wake up with. You\'ll get there in the morning and say \'who\'s she\', roll over and go \'and who\'s she?\' then try and get out of bed and work out who the girl on the floor is as well.\" Must be very good rum......<br />\r\n<br />\r\nAdd that to some euphemisms I\'ve heard, incuding \"badgers nose\" when you\'ve been to the loo in the night and poke her with the wet end and \"crashing the yoguart truck\" which I\'ll leave you to work out. All this means I\'ve learnt stuff this week.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nDid I just put that on the interent? Ooops?<br />\r\n<br />\r\nWill do some rain forest pics when I have a bit more time. Determined to go to bed before midnight, rainforest knackering. Yesterdays it took 12 hours of hair of dog to recover from the party the night before. Think I\'ve found a boat heading for OZ thought so everything looking good.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nTom<br />\r\n<br />\r\n','','','Rain Forest','2007-12-21 03:06:15'),(400,3,'ARC Prizegiving Carnage',3,'Andrew Bishop, head ARC honcaio&#039;s microphone don\'t work. Sound engineer has gone to Castries. The last words we heard from him was &quot;Turn it up&quot;. Somebody did, the feedback reached an ear-splitting crescendo. I mean loud (this is the Caribbean) and the blew the main power and out went all the lights.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nSo we all went out for more rum punch! Which caused trouble cos. I\'d had the foresight to bring in a couple of spares.<br />\r\n<br />\r\n<img src=\"content/pic/ARCPrize.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Eventually power was restored. We got an honourable mention as Steve was a net controller.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nFlute II\'s crew\'s a mate, he\'d got bored of the prize giving and was outside when they won their class. Ooops.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nThe Crescendo of the prize giving was balloons falling from the ceiling. They were all wrapped up in a long tube of bin liners. The whole tube fell down intact. There was a then a frenzied banging as the 28 ARC kids tried to get the balloons out.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nSeveral awards went to people we knew. The \"Spirit of the ARC\" went to the couple on Hippopotamus, 2 nice Germans on their honeymoon. Hippopotamus is very hard for a German to say, which is why they chose the name - to irritate harbour masters customs officials etc. That award was well received as 2 days previously they&#8217;d, despite being a small boat, hosted a very large party which blocked pontoons all around them.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nFlute II, Tulla, and another boat were all mentioned in relation to the boat load of Immigrants they ran into. Tulla was reportedly boarded by 2 of them and had to restrain them, the other yachts got chased by the boat. I\'ve spoken to Neil on flute, they were 400Nm past the canaries and the boat had 48 people on board and no compass. That far into the Atlantic they were in serious trouble. With that many desperate people on board so were the yachts. After much wrangling they were picked up and taken to Gran Canaria. Apparently 2 of the immanent had died prior to the Yachts finding them. Many many people try to get from Africa to the Canaries, in dreadfully inadequate boats. Many die. It is tragic. I\'ve no doubt given their location all of this lot would have died but for being found by the Yachts.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nMention was also made of John Thompson, who died on route to hospital in Barbados after an accident during the crossing. A trust has been set up in his memory to fund an Organ Replacement clinic in Barbados for the Caribbean, details of donation address will follow when I have it.<br />\r\n<br />\r\n<img src=\"content/pic/LimboPan.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Caroline has managed to get a House, in Gros Islet. Or half of one, you know kitchen diner, bedroom, bathroom, fridge freezer, goat etc. So after we&#8217;d demolished an awesome amount of free beer. Listened to the steel band and congratulated people. We went to her house, petted the dog, met the goat, bought beer from the shop next door and put it in the fridge. Then on to the Jump up in Gros Islet. <br />\r\n<br />\r\nI didn\'t dance I just looked drunk and nodded my head and drunk more beer of course. Hangover V bad this morning - wireless internet is worse....<br />\r\n<br />\r\nEuugh...<br />\r\nTom <br />\r\n<br />\r\n','http://www.worldcruising.com','','','2007-12-22 18:16:26'),(401,11,'Zip Line',6,'Rainforest zip line and moutain biking in St Lucia, moutian biking was tame and lame but zip lines were well cool.','http://www.adventuretourstlucia.com','LoveShack','rain, forest, zip,line, St, Lucia','2007-12-22 21:23:31'),(402,11,'Love Shack',2,'','LoveShack','401',NULL,'2007-12-22 21:23:31'),(403,11,'Charie\'s out there',2,'Thats \"charie\" the VC none of us were called Charile','VC','401',NULL,'2007-12-22 21:23:31'),(404,11,'Don\'t Ride accross the bridge',2,'','BikeStream','401',NULL,'2007-12-22 21:23:31'),(405,11,'Assult Course',2,'','AssultGrin','401',NULL,'2007-12-22 21:23:31'),(406,11,'Me on a Zip Line',2,'','TomBigZip','401',NULL,'2007-12-22 21:23:31'),(407,11,'Rainforest',2,'','ForestRiver','401',NULL,'2007-12-22 21:23:31'),(408,11,'Wheeeeeee...',2,'','BackOfMeHead','401',NULL,'2007-12-22 21:23:31'),(409,11,'Lizzard',2,'Dunno whether the sign was for the tree or the Lizzard. Come to think about it not sure haow many zeds in lizzard either.','lizard','401',NULL,'2007-12-22 21:23:31'),(410,11,'Katrin on a Bridge',2,'','KatrinTightRope','401',NULL,'2007-12-22 21:23:31'),(411,11,'Inga on the zip line',2,'','Inga','401',NULL,'2007-12-22 21:23:31'),(412,11,'Alex on a zip line',2,'','alex','401',NULL,'2007-12-22 21:23:31'),(413,11,'Katrin coming right for us!',2,'','KatrinWideHeadOn','401',NULL,'2007-12-22 21:23:31'),(414,11,'Close up of Katrin',2,'Final Lineh','katrinNarrowHeadOn','401',NULL,'2007-12-22 21:23:31'),(415,3,'Happy Christmass',3,'<p><img src=\"content/pic/xTree.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Merry Chrismass to anyone/everyone. Hope the English weather improves.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Christmass shopping in downtown Castries is more fun than Brighton. That&#039;s not saying much, its also a lot hotter, its already 30 degrees outside. Ipod accessories are hard to find. Ipod sales in St Lucia can\'t be high. I suspect cos you can\'t turn the base up enough. Base is very important round here.</P>\r\n\r\n<p>Main chrismass plan is to hit the beach and have a barbie. More apologies to the English audiance. Yes I have heard about the UK weather forcast. Sorry, if its any consolation its too hot here right now. Last night I slept lousy. Too hot and sweaty.</P>\r\n\r\n<p>Twas the night before chrismass and all through the boat nothing was stiring, except for a soaking wet Caroline who\'d been in a dinghy that ran out of fuel in the middle of a squal...</p>\r\n\r\n<P>Will try and upload this before I go to the beach. Had rum and bannana cake for breakfast. Hummm Rum.</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n','','','','2007-12-25 14:56:47'),(418,3,'Video - Aproaching St Lucia',3,'<object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/gvP0zm_Ylqk&rel=1\"></param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/gvP0zm_Ylqk&rel=1\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"></embed></object>','','','','2007-12-27 17:54:56'),(419,11,'St Lucia wall paper - Mystic Mountain Brew',4,'<p><img src=\"content/down/piton/PitonThumb.jpg\" alt=\"Piton\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" align=\"left\">Am I missing english beer? well not much, the local brew is actually quite nice. </p>\r\n<p>Its \"Piton\" named after the 2 sharp peaks near Sourfiere in St Lucia. </p>\r\n<p>Any way in a fit of boredom I made this. The arm is Katrins.</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"content/down/piton/Piton1024x768.jpg\">1024x768</a> | <a href=\"content/down/piton/Piton1280x1024.jpg\">1280 x 1024</a> | <a href=\"content/down/piton/Piton1600x1200.jpg\">1600x1200</a> | <a href=\"content/down/piton/Piton800x600.jpg\">800x600</a> | <a href=\"content/down/piton/Piton640x480.jpg\">640x480</a><br>\r\n  <a href=\"content/down/piton/Piton1440x900.jpg\">1440x900</a> | <a href=\"content/down/piton/Piton1400x1050.jpg\">1400x1050</a> | <a href=\"content/down/piton/Piton1680x1050.jpg\">1680x1050 </a>| <a href=\"content/down/piton/Piton1280x960.jpg\">1280x960</a> <br>\r\n  <a href=\"content/down/piton/Piton704x576.jpg\">704x576</a> | <a href=\"content/down/piton/Piton704x480.jpg\">704x480 </a></p>\r\n','http://pitonbeerstlucia.com/','piton','piton, st, lucia, west, indies, wallpaper, sourfrier','2007-12-28 15:45:09'),(434,11,'Piton Beer',5,'Windward and Leward brewery St Lucia.','http://pitonbeerstlucia.com/','5',NULL,'2007-12-29 16:23:53'),(435,11,'St Lucia',5,'St Lucia, wikipedia.','http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucia','3',NULL,'2007-12-29 16:28:18'),(436,8,'Rainforest Zip',5,'Ziplining through a rain forest in St Lucia. Great fun.','http://www.adventuretourstlucia.com','5',NULL,'2007-12-29 18:42:10'),(437,10,'Rotating video from digital cameras',3,'<p>Ever popped your digital camera into portrait mode instinctivly, then shot a video clip that is for ever rotated 90&deg;?</p>\r\n<p>It was quite hard to find a nice program to rotate it. <a href=\"http://www.virtualdub.org/\" target=\"_blank\">VirtualDub</a> is a sourseforge GNU project. </p>\r\n<p>More importantly it runs without an installer, so you can pop it on that locked down internet cafe machine and use it, or run it off a flash disk.</p>\r\n<p style=\"clear:both\"><img src=\"content/pic/virtDub/open.png\" alt=\"Open\" align=\"right\" />To roatate a digicam video go to<em> File > Open video file</em></p>\r\n<p style=\"clear:both\"><img src=\"content/pic/virtDub/filter.png\" alt=\"Open\" width=\"371\" height=\"143\" align=\"right\" />To roatate a digicam video go to<em> Video > Filters</em> click <em>add</em> then choose <em>rotate</em> Select the Angle. </p>\r\n<p style=\"clear:both\"><img src=\"content/pic/virtDub/all.png\" alt=\"Open\" width=\"597\" height=\"468\" align=\"right\" />You should now see your video rotated. <em></em></p>\r\n<p style=\"clear:both\"><img src=\"content/pic/virtDub/save.png\" alt=\"Open\" width=\"340\" height=\"219\" align=\"right\" />Save it as an AVI seems to work for me.<br />\r\n  Select: <em>File > Save as avi\r\n</em>you have to save it as a differnt name! </p>\r\n','http://www.virtualdub.org/','','rotate, video, camera','2007-12-29 19:11:26'),(438,3,'Jesus ***** ******* Christ',3,'<p><img src=\"content/pic/pepper.jpg\" align=\"right\" boder=\"0\">Sorry to blaspheme so badly, but I have snot pouring out of me faster than Neil from the young ones. The only think thats more incined to make me blaspheme is the newly accuired extra hot pepper sauce.</p>\r\n<p>Our first arrival in St Lucia on Ramprasad was on a sunday, the only open place being the petrol station, where we obtained a bottle marked \"Local Pepper\", writern in permanent marker on a gummed on label. Re used bottle of course. It was lethal. Simon fried some of it with plantain. The results can only be  described as mustard gas. It led to the evacutaion of the boat</p>\r\n<p>The new extra hot stuff, bought from the market in Castris is pure dynamight, Katrin was a little in cautious last night. Steam came out of her ears, she looked like Wily Coyote having swallowed some Acme(tm) TNT. She reported it cleard her sinuses wonderfully. Helped mine too. Made my eye\'s water, but there doing that anyway I\'ve such a bad cold.</P>\r\n<p>I\'m slightly concenred I\'m unable to contact \"Jackel\" who I was hoping to sail with, originally from here, but now possibly from Grenada. I would feel a lot happier, even if I have to get to Grenada, I\'f I knew where she was. Or even where and when she was was going to be. I\'t I don\'t work this out I may well have left it too late to find someone else. Wich woukld be a bit of a problem.</P>','','','local, pepper, sauce,','2007-12-30 15:10:04'),(439,11,'Yet another Atlantic crossing',3,'<p align=\"center\" class=\"blog\"><img src=\"content/pic/GCpan1Small.jpg\"><br />\r\nPanaramic View of Gran Canaria </P>\r\n<img src=\"content/pic/ik2.png\" alt=\"Island Kea Logo\" width=\"200\" height=\"176\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" /><h3>Yet another Atlantic Crossing.</h3>\r\n<p>Well it wasn\'t, this was my 4th crossing, third in this direction. I confidently predicted that &quot;I\'d practically worn out that bit of Sea&quot;. This it turned out was arrogance. This was not just another Atlantic crossing. Initially things preceded along the expected lines. Fixing, shopping etc. Interspersed with some drinking. The Weather in Gran Canaria was more variable than I remembered. This should have been a warning. The last 2 nights before we left, the wind was howling from the North, it was cold actually cold. In the Canaries! We were in the bar in oliles. The weather didn\'t make preparations such as laundry any easier. The ARC weather guru promised us the wind would drop overnight and it would be sunny for the start.</p>\r\n<p><img src=\"content/pic/ARC.jpg\" alt=\"ARC 2007 Start line\" name=\"Arc\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" />The start was much as I remembered from the previous ARC. Except breezier. Given the breeze most of us started cautiously. As well as the Breeze the swell was big too. We got away cleanly, the radio was thick with those who didn\'t, we saw one boat with a broken boom before we\'s even started. Gaviotta of Cowes was towed into the southern end of the island with no rudder and a fouled prop. Pindar, a Volvo 60 was spotted 4 hours in beating north towards Las Palmas under headsail alone.</p>\r\n<p>We carried on south, to stay out of the wind acceleration zone and then the wind shadow of the islands. During the night I had to avoid the same yacht twice, he inconsiderately didn\'t give way despite being on Port. Then at midnight gybed and crossed our path again. During the night a racy carbon boat called &quot;Helen Mary Gee&quot; was knocked down. That\'s carbon racy with a washing machine....</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"blog\"><img src=\"content/pic/IK2atSea.jpg\" alt=\"Islan Kea II at Sea\" /><br />\r\nIsland Kea II and her crew in the light winds of Gran Canaria. </p>\r\n<p><img src=\"content/pic/locust.jpg\" alt=\"Navtex full of locusts\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" />Standard wisdom is: <i>&quot;Sail south until the butter melts and then turn right&quot;</i>, well we decided to turn right early. We lost wind a little south of the Canaries, but not as bad as those who cut the corner. Our first few days were relatively slow as the strong northerly wore off. We had dolphins every evening for 5 days, with some whale blows spotted north of us on the 3rd day out. At this point the Navtex reported: &quot;Risk of Locust plague arriving Canaries&quot; Glad we missed that. The Current and wind at the Cararies both come from the North East. Sending us a little south. The current and wind both become more easterly as you get further across. The Wind and Current keep the Canaries relatively cool. Snow is not un know at the top of the Island (1500M). The water temperature in the Caribbean is 5 degrees warmer. But it warms up pretty quick as you go across. <br />\r\n  <br /> \r\nThe lighter winds didn\'t give us spectacular progress and the Canarian current does\'nt knock the miles off the GPS the way the Equatorial current does. a few days in we started deploying the Parasailor (a weird spinnaker with a hole in it an a kite in the hole) or the Cruising chute during the day, giving us some extra oomph. </p>\r\n<p align=\"left\"><img src=\"content/pic/bodge.jpg\" alt=\"Bodged up spinnaker pole\" width=\"280\" height=\"240\" align=\"right\" />We\'d had our first problem with the autopilot, fortunately just a loosened bolt, a few days in but on the 10th day the actually ram went, this was a new part instilled at Gibraltar. To get at Island Kea\'s Autopilot, the cockpit locker has to be emptied, since this is a major store of bikes, gas bottles, diesel and marine junk it takes along time. One must then crawl into the locker, open a hatch and crawl under the aft cockpit. Whilst rolling in the trades. Fortunately we were able to replace the new ram with the old and carry on with an autopilot. I can\'t stress how important some type of automatic steering is, if you standing watch alone, you can\'t do anything with more than one hand or more than an arm length from the helm.</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">As well as autopilot troubles we had to repair the spinnaker pole, the universal joint kept loosing pins all the way accross, I don\'t believe it was engineered with the constant working of an Atlantic passage in mind. Despite the trouble we got the fishing gear out, making a huge tangle. However the following day we caught a lovely dorado.</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\"><img src=\"content/pic/fish.jpg\" alt=\"Dorado\" width=\"280\" height=\"247\" align=\"left\" />Weather forecasts indicated a hole developing in the wind ahead we drove the boat south west for a few days as we approached the halfway point, in search of wind.<br />\r\n  <br />\r\nBy this time we\'d heard a fair few more troubles coming through on the Radio, Steve our skipper was on of the Group C net controllers. One of the race boats has a burn patient on board, who had to be evacuated.  Then 4 days out into the Atlantic, Tulla another yacht and flute encountered a boat load of 48 illegal immigrants, that far out into the Atlantic they were in serious trouble having missed the Canaries by hundreds of miles. Flute\'s skipper told me they didn\'t even have a compass. Apparently 2 had already died before they encountered the yachts. We\'d been warned about the problem, thousands try and make the journey from Africa to the EU by taking unsuitable boats from the African mainland to the Canaries. I have heard stories of the contrast of western tourists sunbathing on the southern beaches as the police carry body bags of the many immigrants who don\'t make it up the same beach. The boat encountered by the ARC yachts has fuel left to try and board them. 2 of them succeed in getting on board Tulla. Flute was following them as best they could in case Tulla\'s crew were thrown off. The 2 boarders were subdued with a flare gun and cable ties. but Flute and the others had an unpleasant night as they boat approached them in the dark. Eventually after some wrangling a fishing boat was diverted to pick up the survivors.</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">South of us a non ARC yacht was in trouble. They lost a chain plate and were about to loose the rig. Gigi, a swan 48 picked them up from a life raft. Unfortunately the yacht didn\'t sink. With the Equatorial Current and the wind behind it even under bare poles it was making 50 miles a day. Apparently the crew included a very good cook. Its very heard to see a darkened yacht in heavy seas with no moon. The possibility of the yacht being near us made for some nervous night watches, especially because in this case there\'s no one as never as you on the other boat keeping look out for you. </p>\r\n<p align=\"left\"> Spinnaker pole went again. Now its held together by, a boat hook, a block of wood, a jubilee clip some string and some gaffer tape. We crossed the halfway point with the pole back up, bubbly with lunch. This was what it was supposed to be like. Windy sunny and blasting towards St Lucia.</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\"><img src=\"content/pic/blueWater.jpg\" alt=\"Stormy weather\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" align=\"right\" />The following evening a black cloud started creeping up behind me at 2 in the morning. I conscientiously reefed. Not enough, not nearly enough. The true wind meter went to 43 knots (Severe Gale 9). I had to struggle to keep the boat on course, and shout for help to get sails in. This wasn\'t just a squall - a normal hazard of the Atlantic. It carried on and it rained and it rained and it rained. I finally got to get some kip at 4:30, we were still doing 5 knots under bare poles. The following day it rained and rained. Eventually at sunset a break in the clouds appeared a head. This was unfair as the wind was astern. The wind started to rise again, clearing 35 knots steady and then holding 40 knots or more. The gusts remained in the high 40\'s (storm 10). This is not what I was expect from the Atlantic. Or what the weather forecast said. A nearby boat e-mailed cowes and question the 20-25 knots 30 in thunder showers forcast. The reply was allong the lines of are you sure its 40kn? Doen\'t look like that from my forcasts? YES WE\'RE SURE, we were doing 11 knots down a wave on bare poles!</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">During this period of inclement weather the autopilot fortunately behaved. As well as the rain we had massive seas, imagine 2 bungalows coming from 2 directions and occasionally arriving at once and you\'ll get the idea. Night was back as soot. The boat was like a sauner, wet oilies and closed hatches. The next day was at least sunny, though we had numerous squalls, often vicious as well. But at least with squalls you can just strip off to your boxers and have a shower till there gone rather than import water bellow in your oilies. </p>\r\n<p align=\"left\"><img src=\"content/pic/missery.jpg\" alt=\"Squall\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" align=\"left\" />The morning of the 13th day out from Gran Canaria began with a 40 knot squall, 40knots stings when it hits your bear back. After the squall the rain set in again. This was probably our roughest day, the previous days of bad weather kicking up the swell and the rain making roll up smoking nie on impossible. Huddled in the damp sweaty cabin I made fresh bread which didn\'t help the temperature.</p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">The 14th day dawned clear, we could see the line of bad weather behind us. Which worried us.It was still rough and not in the normal Atlantic rolling waves way either, but it was sunny, 20-25 kn of breeze. Wonderful after 3 days of 35 kn\'s being a break.</p>\r\n<p>\"Spam\" a non ARC boat ahead of us lost her rig and was taking on water. Her 3 crew are safe aboard another yacht and I believe she sank. I was later told that 4 non ARC yachts were lost on the crossing this year. As well as Spam, the Skipper of one yacht had an accident, he was evacuated to a cruise ship and taken to hospital in Barbados. He unfortunate died of his injuries.</p>\r\n<p>Our troubles with the autopilot appeared again, this time in the form of a snapped bolt which we were able to replace. But only by switching spares between old an new rams. Our weather troubles were now over, &quot;Georgia&quot; our second autopilot working and we were now able to appreciate haw much more ocean was behind us than in front, sit back and enjoy a beer with out too much fear. St lucia came up fast in those last few days, our ETA went from friday to thursday night, then we comfortably rounded Pigeon Island a lunchtime on the Thursday. Despite loosing the last remaining functional autopilot combo 24 hours out. We beat into the bay, gave the photographer a wave and crossed the line in 18 days, 108th in the cruising Division of 169 boats. . Rum punch, beer, more beer etc. </p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"blog\"><img src=\"content/pic/gal/ARC 2007/arived.jpg\" alt=\"Arival at the dock in Rodney bay\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" border=\"0\" /><br />\r\nArrival at Rodney bay Marina, St Lucia - in one piece. </p>\r\n<p>This is largely a we-write of a blog post &quot;<a href=\"content.php?Cat=11&amp;Res=371\">At Sea</a>&quot; I made as I went long, many of the photos here are available larger in the <a href=\"thumbs.php?gal=374\">ARC 2007 gallery</a> </p>\r\n','http://blog.mailasail.com/everett','','Island, kea, atlantic, arc, rally cruisers, atlantic','2007-12-30 18:45:14'),(440,7,'Marcus Brigstock',3,'the relationship between religeon and warfare is like the relationship between and Ant and Dec, you could have one without the other but I\'m not sure anyone would see the point','0',NULL,NULL,'2007-12-30 20:27:01'),(441,10,'Virtual Dub',5,'Handy free tool that can rotate AVIs from digital cameras.','http://www.virtualdub.org/','5',NULL,'2007-12-30 20:33:05'),(443,11,'Hilly country St Lucia',2,'','valley','442',NULL,'2008-01-01 15:12:48'),(444,11,'Pipe fish',2,'','pipe','442',NULL,'2008-01-01 15:12:48'),(445,11,'Bue fish from the top',2,'','blueTop','442',NULL,'2008-01-01 15:12:48'),(446,11,'Parott fish and some yellow coral',2,'','parottYellow','442',NULL,'2008-01-01 15:12:48'),(447,11,'Yellow pipe fish on the reef',2,'','pipeWide','442',NULL,'2008-01-01 15:12:48'),(448,11,'Me diving',2,'','tomDive','442',NULL,'2008-01-01 15:12:48'),(449,11,'A coral tree?',2,'Cool whatever it is.','coralTree','442',NULL,'2008-01-01 15:12:48'),(450,11,'Alex',2,'','alex','442',NULL,'2008-01-01 15:12:48'),(451,11,'Hotel on the Hill',2,'','honh','442',NULL,'2008-01-01 15:12:48'),(452,11,'Steve',2,'','steve','442',NULL,'2008-01-01 15:12:48'),(453,11,'Me photographing fishes',2,'Its harder than it looks','tomfilm','442',NULL,'2008-01-01 15:12:48'),(454,11,'Parrot Fish',2,'','parott','442',NULL,'2008-01-01 15:12:48'),(455,11,'fish',2,'','bluebrain','442',NULL,'2008-01-01 15:12:48'),(456,11,'Little blue feller in the coral tree',2,'','blueByTree','442',NULL,'2008-01-01 15:12:48'),(457,3,'I\'m not as old as you think I am',3,'Its New Year 2008, happy new year readers who are listenting. Its my birthday the day after tommorrow. But I wont be 33, I\'ll still be 32. <br />\r\n<br />\r\nOn the way across the Atlantic we put the clocks back 4 times - the sun just kept setting later and later*<br />\r\n<br />\r\nWhat with the early moring chrismass texts from the UK waking the boat up 4 hours early, my immanent birthday and the new year it set me thinking.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nYou go on holiday, Gatwick misery, car park nearer Brighton than the air port, no legroom, terrororists, toothpaste banned, jokes by the Now Show etc. Eventually you fly out and change your watch and get sunburned, riped off, hungover, skint etc. Proper holiday. Get on your plane and fly back, change watch back to the time it was before. Nothing lost or gained.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nHowever, I kind of went west, putting my watch back and back. I might not have sailed all the way round the world, but when I flew home I went west again from Thailand. Not back east. Now I\'m a bit confudesed.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nMaybe the international date line takes care of this, I just lost my watch in Pappete (Tahiti), so have no reliable memory of exactly what happened when I crossed it, but if you assume that every day contains one sunrise and one sunset I\'ve missed one. I only get to be 33 on the 4th.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nI\'m doing my nut in here just thinking about it, since ultimatly execept for relativity time its self doesn\'t change and, trust me on this, sailing boats do not move at relavistic velocities. I will still be 33 on thursday. However I\'ve still seen one less day than you lot, even if some the days I did see were a bit longer than yours.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nMade you think didn\'t I, and I didn\'t even get sidereal** on your ass?<br />\r\n<br />\r\nTom<br />\r\n<br />\r\n<hr><br />\r\n* observant readers will realise it rose later too, but I\'m not to observant at that time.<br />\r\n** Look up the difference between a solar day and a sidereal one some time.','http://','','','2008-01-01 21:14:24'),(460,3,'Kill Your Televison!',3,'<p>I&#039;m sick as a parrot, snot still pouring out of every orifice. Drinking beer makes me feel worse. Sitting around with the laptop is about all I&#039;m good for, its given me some opportunity to work on the website. No, no not the speeling, just the content</P>\r\n<h3> New Items</h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Search Button, not brilliant but it works.</li>\r\n<li><a href=\"content.php?Cat=11&Res=462\">Kill Your Television</a>, a video shot of the reefs off Anse Chastenet</li>\r\n<li><a href=\"content.php?Cat=10&Res=461\">Black Pearl my Arse</a>, I thought I\'d lost this and it disappeared off the internet, so I\'ve uploaded it here for posterity or until I get sued.</li>\r\n<li>There\'s also some yotty information on <a href=\"content.php?Cat=11&Res=459\\\">Rodney Bay Marina</a></li>\r\n<li>Some snorkeling photos of <a href=\"thumbs.php?gal=442\">Anse Chastenet</a></li>\r\n<li>A full write up of the <a href=\"content.php?Cat=11&Res=439\">Atlantic Crossing</a><li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>I\'ve got some of Steve\'s videos, but since there in a DV codec I can\\\'t do out with them at present. Such is life. I can watch them, but hey I\'ve got Mplayer - it will play anything.</p>\r\n<p>Gonna see if I can upload this then see a dentist</P>','','','','2008-01-03 14:48:17'),(461,10,'Black Pearl my arse.',4,'<p><a href=\"content/down/Chopper_Pirates.mov\" title=\"suggest right click and save as\"><img src=\"content/down/pirateslink.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\">This is a video of \"Pirates of the Caribbean\", the volvo 70 not the back pearl.</a></p>\r\n\r\n<p>This ones a bit quicker..... <a href=\"content/down/Chopper_Pirates.mov\" title=\"suggest right click and save as\">Right Click here and \"Save Target As\"<a/></p>\r\n\r\n<p>I found this on the net, then couldn\'t find again. Since it appears to have disappeared I&#039;m putting it up here. Its not mine and I don&#039;t own the copy write!</p>\r\n\r\n<p>best viewed in \"Quicktime Alternative\" an alternative to horrible quick time nightmare.</P>','','','Pirates,caribbean,volvo,70,video','2008-01-03 18:49:44'),(462,11,'Kill your Television',4,'<p><a href=\"content/down/KYT.wmv\" title=\"suggest right click and save as\"><img src=\"content/down/KYTlink.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\">This is a video of some reefs off the southern end of Anse Chastenet</a></p>\r\n\r\n<p>The sound was awful, so I changed it..... <a href=\"content/down/KYT.wmv\" title=\"sugest right click and save as\">Right Click here and \"Save Target As\"<a/></p>\r\n\r\n<p>Sound track courtesy of Ned&#039;s Atomic Dustbin</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Won&#039;t play? try &quot;<a href=\"http://www.mplayer.org\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Mplayer - Plays ANYTHING\">Mplayer</a>&quot; plays ANYTHING and its free.</P>','','KYT.wmv','Snorkel, anse, chastent,st lucia','2008-01-03 20:34:52'),(459,11,'Rodney Bay Marina',3,'<h1>Rodney Bay St Lucia - Pilotage info.</h1>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"color:#CC00FF\"><b>NOT TO BE USED FOR NAVIGATION, Info here is no substitute for proper navigational data.<b></p>\r\n<p>Rodney bay Marina is the largest marina in St Lucia,  proably one of the largest in the Caribbean. Its deepenough for most boats, fully enclosed and secure. This is probalby why its then end point for the ARC. Its also a very conventioal marina. Finger pontoons etc.</p>\r\n<h2>Navigational info.</h2>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><img src=\"content/pic/pilot/rb.png\" alt=\"Rodney bay lagoon\" width=\"650\" height=\"560\" /></p>\r\n<h3>Aproaches</h3>\r\n<p>Rodney bay marina is in a lagoon, the lagoon has one entrance, a narrow channel out between stone groins into the bay. Entrance point pretty much dead west. The bay is relativly free of dangers, provided you maintan sane distance off the shore. The exception is the &quot;barrel of beef&quot;, presumalby cockney ryming slang for reef. It is a large rock with a beacon on it (dunno if it actually works) about 2 meters high. Near it are other lower rocks so leave it well clear. The barrel o beef is in the south west corner of the bay.</p>\r\n<h3>Channel</h3>\r\n<p>The channel itself is narrow and marked by 2 beacons red and green, in the American style (red right returning). Both work at time of writing. Its clear there were at one stage leading lights. One is visable on the road behind the entrance however the Brig Unicorn and the new travel lift dock are certain to obsucre it, even if it does work which I doubt. Apparently the channel groins ends have spread a bit. but so long as you pass between the beacons I doubt there\'s a problem.</p>\r\n<h3>Lagoon</h3>\r\n<p>The Lagoon is in 2 parts, the first reached contains the marina, fuel dock and boatyard. Round to the right (south west) the lagoon opens out into a second section. There are a few private docks around the edge, but Anchoring is allowed except off the southern end of the Marina Docks (the big tourist cats manoover here).</p>\r\n<h3>Marina</h3>\r\n<p>The marina its self is a promentary on the eastern side of the main lagoon, with three docks running north south. The western most dock is A dock, a continuious run. The other docks are cut in two by the marina promentary, B and C to the north D and E to the south. Even numbered berths are on the westen sides and even numbers on the eastern sides. Fingers are short and concrete, there is also a post either wood or concrete off the ends of the fingers for a stern line or bow spring, so be ready to loop a rope over this on your way in. The pontoons are fixed not floating,  the tidal range is not huge but it is bigger than a normal fender. Normal practice is to hang 2 or more fenders together on high one low. Since the pontoons are short, once parked conentrate fenders at the end of the finger. You may need to get creative in fendering the aft post!</p>\r\n<p>The fueling dock and boat yard are separate from the marina on the north side of the Lagoon. There is a large tank and diesel sign in the actuall entrance channel, however this is for the local small fishing boats not the yachty fuel dock wich is further in. Water is also available from the fuel dock, but I think you have to pay.</p>\r\n<h3>Anchorages</h3>\r\n<p>Anchoring in the marina is fine, bottom is thick cloying mud, you won\'t drag as such but you might creep as the anchor ooses its way through the mud. Have a bukent and brush available when you haul it up. We once had a tripping line bouyed to the anchor. It was draged into the mud, through the hole the anchor made and back up after it, covered in mud as we haulled the anchor up. Do not anchor of the southern end of the docks. The southern lagoon can be anchored in as well. All are flat calm. </p>\r\n<h3>Dinghy Docks</h3>\r\n<p>Arround the marina are plenty of spots for your dinghy. Most of the docks around the edge of the lagoon are private, however the\'es one at the Boatyard pub in the boatyard to the north. Reportadly the shopping mall has one at the sothern side of the southern lagoon. In the southwest corner of the south lagoon is the &quot;Village Green&quot; wich used to be used by yachties, howeve this area is locals green space and appears to have fallen out of yachty use. Finally there is a dinghy dock on the southern side of the entrance channel, its marked &quot;customers only&quot;, but the bar is never open and nobody seems to take any notice. The is easy access from here to the beach. </p>\r\n<h2>Services.</h2>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><img src=\"content/pic/pilot/rbZoom.png\" alt=\"Rodney Bay Marina\" width=\"521\" height=\"389\" /></p>\r\n<h3>Pontoons</h3>\r\n<p>Water, electrisity and in some fingers cable TV are available.. All require conection and meter reading by marina staff. if you come in at an odd time or chrismas new year etc, the security will connect you, but expect to sort in out later when the office re-opens. </p>\r\n<p>WiFi is also available, but not terribly reliable at time of writing. Whostpot# can usually be accesed from the boat, however these are paid for via pre paied tokens from the rent a car shop. When it works, it logs in via a web broswser. There is a free hotspot called &quot;cw hotspot&quot; which works intermittnatly, but is not going to reach your boat. This is best used at the picnic tables by the bread basket cafe.</p>\r\n<h3>Ashore </h3>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><img src=\"content/pic/pilot/Rondey Bay.jpg\" alt=\"Shore side photo\" width=\"650\" height=\"180\" /></p>\r\n<p><strong>Bars</strong>, there is Skuttlebutts (formaly Rodney Bay Marina Bar, Fomally 3 Amagos) large with a pool area, does food most of the day (beer $5.5EC). Upstairs is Bosuns (beer $5EC) also a resteraunt. The prices of drinks very wildy (some times dayly too) Vodka Coke was $15EC! Stick to rum bassed ones as foreign spirits will probably be more.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Cafe\'s</strong>, the are 2 cafe\'s both on the ground floor of the main marina block, both are similar doing breakfasty things and baggettes etc. The Cafe &oacute;le has an Ice Cream stall, and the &quot;Breadbasket&quot; sells bread and some local food like roti\'s as well, though they sell out of rotis fast</p>\r\n<p><strong>Shops</strong>, there is a small supermarket, $2.75 for a beer out of the fridge, fags etc. A posh clothing and tourist store and a Duty free booze and fags.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Showers and toilets</strong> There is one small showerblock, solar heated water, so after dark it can be cold if its been used up. There\'s no key or code, but there is iron gate wich can look locked, just open in an walk in. There are blokes loos up the stairs by the maina office, and girls under the stairs. Watch the door on the blokes as it stick on the roof!</p>\r\n<p><strong>Laundry</strong>, there\'s suds, near dock C, and sparkle, Sparkle opeate outside the marina and run by boat. Call them on channel 16 - dirtly underwear is and emergency.</p>\r\n<p><strong>Paperwork</strong>, Both cusoms and Imagration and the Marina office are upstairs on the balcony area of the bigest block.</p>\r\n<p>Other usfull tips:<br />\r\n  <strong>Post</strong>, stamps are availablf from the posh clothes shop, and there\'s a box in the marina office, mail can also be sent to the marina office. Boat name, Rodney Bay marina, P.O.Box 1538, Castries, St Lucia, WEST INDIES FedEx seems to work here somewhere too..<br />\r\n  <strong>Internet</strong>, a pc in Skuttlebuts is free. There\'s paid access in the rent a car shop upstaris and cable an wireless near the shower block.</p>\r\n<p>I will finsih this some time..... 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