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Mark Twain Finally, after 6 years with this website, I add the Link page I intended from the beginning. As you can see from my philosophy page, I can be a bit anachronistic, sometimes verging on being a Luddite. However, I make an exception to my anti-technology viewpoints when it comes to the internet: perhaps the greatest aid sharing cruising information ever. So, below are the various sites I have found that are useful for gathering more info. This is a link to a PDF that provides measurements taken by me from a 33 foot Boracay racing paraw, our outrigger sailboat. Photos of this boat can be found at this address: http://www.flickr.com/photos/61479419@N05/sets/72157626446810114/ Atolls and Offshore Islands of PNG and Solomon Islands This link is a compilation of information I gathered on some very remote islands in the Pacific. I had hopes to visit a number of them, but due to delays, I ended up only briefly stopping at one: Ontong Java, where I was the only yacht to visit in 2010. Information is gathered from blogs, guides, and Google Earth to help with navigation and other needs. Feel free to distribute, and send me any updates you find or gather yourself for inclusion in future updates. Soggy Paws is a CYS 44, a boat of similar vintage, size, and design purpose as Fellow Traveler. I first met them in Panama, and have "bumped into" them several times on the internet since as they maintain a lot of pertinent cruiser info on their site, such as the Cruisers Guide to Ecuador. It was a pleasure to meet up with them in person again in Gambier, and we "traded" information...meaning they gave me a ton of good stuff and I loaned them a few old magazine articles. Sherry, the IT expert of the boat, searched numerous sources, including cruisers blogs, to create a "Compendium" on the Tuamotus that has more information than any guide. Dave, the onboard mechanic, has written extensively about his modifications, improvements, and repairs to Soggy Paws that anyone fixing up an older boat to cruise should review. Most cruisers know this site, as it has the most extensive data base on the countries cruisers will ever likely visit, including entry procedures, basic facilities, and links for more info. A free site for linking crew and boats. These guys helped me design and did the code for this website in it's initial form. While the basic layout has not changed, nearly everything else has, so the spelling and other errors belong to me. I highly recommend them if you need website design. This is the designer of the dinghy I discuss on the DINGHY page. They have some excellent designs for tenders, ranging from 7 to 12 feet, including nestling ones for those with limited space. My dinghy is based on the Spindrift 10, but modified a bit, including more freeboard. I will order plans for the 12' version and build in in very thin plywood with lots of fiberglass over when I get to SE Asia. My next project is to make a sailing rig for my dinghy. I searched the internet high and low for a ready-made, new or used spritsail rig for it, but the only ones I could find were for optimists dinghies, which at 34 sq ft is a bit small for me and my dinghy. However, I stumbled onto this site, and a light bulb went on above my head! Here is a good way to get cheap dinghy sails! BTW, Tyvek also works, perhaps even better; however, the large rolls are primarily a US product where wood construction is common. Everywhere I have been lately, concrete is the primary construction material. Now, if I can just get my nephew to bring me one of their kits when he comes to Tonga....
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