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Technology! Isn’t it marvellous?
When away I will need constant internet access. Not at sea but before leaving port to get a selection of weather forecasts and when I arrive to post pictures and my reports to the blog on the web site. I will also need to keep up to date with email and to keep sponsors and supporters up to date with my progress and plans.
Until now I knew it would be possible but I hadn’t given it any serious thought how I would do it. As a worst case I would find an internet cafe and post my reports from there.
Thinking about it… I have a super mobile phone, a Nokia N95, which is a full computer and so I should be able to use that for almost everything. So last weekend I set about seeing what I could do with my N95 combined with a laptop, to make it easier for me to keep in touch.
In this article I have described all the major techie components on the boat… some for communication, some for safety. Please click on the "read more" to see what I have done …
