currently at: Samana Cay, Bahamas
current date: 7 March 2005

Just a quick update to cover a few "administrative details." First, I should point out that we do get the comments made to our log, but we can't reply to them unless you include an email address. (So Mike: thanks very much, and more details about this anchorage will be coming soon. And Jeff - this must be Whish Jeff, right? - ha ha we have lobster and you don't! Why don't you splash that boat and come join us?) If you don't want to make a public comment, you can email us instead at windom[at]windom.netrack.net.

Second, you may have noticed that we've begun including the "current date" at the top of each entry. This is because the software that takes our emailed logs and puts them on the web sometimes hiccups, posting an entry long after the correct date. (This is why it appears that we went to Chub Cay, to Allan's Cay, and then to Chub again - two log entries were posted in reverse order.) We hope this will clear up any confusion about where we are!

We've also decided to participate in the position reporting that our ham email system incorporates. Each time we do email, we'll update our reported latitude and longitude, along with a text comment about where we are. (I'll try to keep it current - I don't have enough ports on my computer to have it automagically grab the information from our GPS!)  

There are two ways of accessing this information on the web. Winlink, the ham email system we use, has a website at http://www.winlink.org/aprs, and the Maritime Mobile Service Net (another amateur radio organization) has one at http://mmsn.techmonkeys.net. In either case, you enter my (Ilana's) ham callsign, which is KG4EYP. Both sites show map views of our most recently reported position.

We hope you find this interesting and useful!