Capt' James here. Degreed computer hardware engineer from back in the days when 16 K-Bytes of memory was a mag-core block about the size of a cereal box, and a DOS Prompt command was laughably new. Lived and worked in some 16 countries in a 35-something year career before saying the hell with it & buying a sailboat.

Our 48 foot sailing vessel "Mariane" {home port: Vienna, Austria} anchored at Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, in late December 2007. Smiles. Christmas and New Years where my wife could wriggle her toes in the warm sands of a sun-lit beach. Sangria and sunsets; Marguaritas and merry-making. In mid January we sailed over to Mazatlan, on the Mexican mainland, where the town was gearing up for the world's third largest Madi Gras party! (Third largest after Rio & N'Orleans.) We're now retro-fiiting the boat, preparing to cross the Pacific on an island-hopping, ten-year tour, from French Polynesia to Australia, up through the Philippians and Malaysia, thence to Singapore and Thailand. Ahhh... Thailand. The land of smiles!

Yes, there is WiFi at sea -- if you've the big bucks for a geo-synchronized antenna! Me, I have to wait until I'm anchored near somebody's hot spot. My WiFi system (half home-made) can reach out about a sea mile or so. And you convert that to kilometers yourself! Biggest problem is trying to crack the codes for a secured net. ;-) Bit of math involved and some serious number crunching. Not that I would ever really do something illegal like that.....

Life is too short to drink bad wine or dance with drunks (except me ;-)

There's always another sunset in another port, in another country, in another part of the world. Don't complain: If you don't like it, do something to change it; if you can't change it, learn to accept it; if you can do neither, then hoist anchor and slide on out of harbor with the next high tide!

James

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