Beef Island

Current Location: The Lagoon, St. Thomas
Lat/Lon: 18°18.8' N 64°52.1' W
Air Temp: 83°F Sea Temp: 81°F
Weather: Clear

Well we are here in the USVI getting ready for charter. The internet is much more cumbersome to use here since we have to go back to dialing up through the cell phone. At least it works, albeit slowly, so no photos today!

However I want to share a link to an update on the Beef Island court case, the BVI’s first environmental suit. They are trying to stop the huge development slated for the Beef Island mangroves that I had mentioned earlier.

Anegada Sunset & Moonrise

Current Location: Pomato Pt., Anegada
Lat/Lon: 18°43.5' N 64°23.1' W
Air Temp: 80°F Sea Temp: 80°F
Weather: Clear



Have I mentioned how much I love our new, fast, always-on internet connection?

My new favorite appliance

So I broke down and got a proper internet solution for the yacht. My idea to use a cell phone tethered wirelessly via Bluetooth to provide internet to one of our laptops was ingenious but also slow and cumbersome to use.

Today, I purchased a Kyocera KR2 Mobile Router, which is a wireless router that takes a PCMCIA cellular network card! Plus, look at all the blinkylights! This brilliant device creates a WiFi hotspot anywhere it can pick up an cellular connection from CCT Boatphone (which completely covers the BVI) and all the computers onboard can share this always-on connection without tying up our telephone line. Better still, the EVDO connection is about 10x faster, which (among other things) means more blog posts for you!

Another benefit of this system is the ethernet-enabled hard drive which contains backups of all of our music and photos from our trips that is now available from any computer on the network!