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Passport's Adventures: iPhone and iPad Navigation

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Sunday, February 17, 2013. IPhone and iPad Navigation. I've spent some time at various anchorages this year looking into Navigation using iPhones and iPads. Wouldn't it be nice to have this ability on an IPhone or IPad? Should be easy, but in reality it is a bit complicated. Back to the problem stated above. Although there are several navigation apps for Idevices they mostly require purchased charts which are not accurate in our current locale. Nid=91281. It is even possible to overlay Google Earth z...

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Passport's Adventures: Digicel Panama and the San Blas Islands

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013. Digicel Panama and the San Blas Islands. The settings are: APN:web.digicelpanama.com. The easiest way to add money to a Digicel prepaid sim card is to buy scratch off recharge cards available in several denominations. Buy extras and only put the money on the sim card when you need it. The instructions to use the recharge cards are written on the card. After you have money on phone, to get internet access type in *142*number# then hit CALL/SEND. 1 day for $0.75 - number = 40.

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Passport's Adventures: Capital One: A Rant

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011. Capital One: A Rant. Credit cards are an important part of cruising, we use them for everything we can. It’s easier and more convenient than keeping cash around. I am fortunate to have inherited USAA benefits and have never had a problem with banking from abroad with them. I have on a few occasions had them cancel my credit card and reissue a new one when a credit card server has been compromised. That can alter plans as even FedEx can take a while to arrive in some destinations.

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Passport's Adventures: March 2010

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Friday, March 19, 2010. How hard can it be to check into a country? Well apparently when you arrive on a Sunday and Monday is a holiday it can be very difficult. Sunday, following our early morning arrival, knowing we were too tired to do anything, but not quite ready to sleep we broke out the bottle of rum for a little celebration. And besides our only plan for the day was to go to sleep. And we did just that, waking up briefly for a bit of dinner and back to sleep. At least the exercise felt good after...

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Passport's Adventures: June 2010

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Wednesday, June 23, 2010. We continued to buzz through the islands: Canouan, Mayreau, Tobago Cays, Union Island, Carriacou and then to Grenada. We spent long enough on each island to sample the town, food and see what was beneath the water. Mostly it was a very enjoyable trip and a great time hanging out with Fred, who was not only great to hang out with but was excellent at cleaning the galley! We ended the trip with Fred in Mt Harman Bay, which was to be our home for the next four months. The night bef...

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Passport's Adventures: Boat Yard

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Tuesday, May 24, 2011. Day 92 of our 30 day stay in the boat yard. So for everyone that thinks we are floating around in tropical waters sipping rum … life is currently a very different story. There’s not a whole lot of fun involved at the moment, unless you consider sanding, varnishing and crawling in small spaces to install a generator fun, then by all means get down here, this is the time of your life you are missing! The decks took nearly a month, but they are officially done. I re-taped much of it.

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Passport's Adventures: Renovations

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Wednesday, June 1, 2011. When standing on the brink of demolition to begin renovations, there is a point where the question must be asked:. Will I make it better or worse? Of course the goal is to make it better, but will something get damaged unexpectedly in the process of taking it apart? Are there unexpected surprises, not necessarily good ones, lurking under the surface? These are all questions that must be faced and evaluated, or just completely ignored and hope for the best. In the end it turned ou...

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Passport's Adventures: February 2013

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Sunday, February 17, 2013. IPhone and iPad Navigation. I've spent some time at various anchorages this year looking into Navigation using iPhones and iPads. Wouldn't it be nice to have this ability on an IPhone or IPad? Should be easy, but in reality it is a bit complicated. Back to the problem stated above. Although there are several navigation apps for Idevices they mostly require purchased charts which are not accurate in our current locale. Nid=91281. It is even possible to overlay Google Earth z...

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Passport's Adventures: January 2011

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Friday, January 7, 2011. Santa Marta was not originally on our planned itinerary. Whatever exactly a planned itinerary is when cruising, I think it’s more of a vague concept of an idea of something that could be done should we so choose to do it. We quickly found ourselves very comfortable and sad to leave. With guests arriving in Cartagena we had a week to enjoy Santa Marta and then move on. If we make it back again we will plan to stay longer, maybe next year we will return. Just a few days before we l...