The new design of http://www.svmirasol.com/ is finally in production. I still have a few things I'm going to add in (videos, etc.), but I just got tired of looking at the old site. RSS is working so you can now subscribe to our site, we've got a nice new current position map which we believe we will be able to update while we're at sea using our sat phone, and there are lots of new photos. Also, I have been looking at other options for the photo gallery, including a flash gallery, but I haven't found a workable solution yet. The one I'm using does require Active X so you will need to enable it (you should get prompted it for it when you load the page) to view the gallery properly.
If you look at the site and find any broken links or other problems, please let me know.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Redesign in Beta
I just finished (I think) with the redesign of our website. Please feel free to take a look around and comment, especially if you find errors.
http://www.svmirasol.com/home_svmirasoltest.htm
http://www.svmirasol.com/home_svmirasoltest.htm
Saturday, July 25, 2009
I'm working on it!!!
I know the main website hasn't been updated in a while. I've been working on a redesign. It's not ready and it's taking longer than I thought, so logs & photos from the last couple weeks (including the Krause visit) will be up shortly in the old design. Hope to have the redesign finished within a week or two.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
A Curious Conversation
"Honey?..."
"Mmmph?" I respond, pretending to pay attention to the question while I'm reading a book. A bad habit I have.
"You've always wanted to do a circumnavigation haven't you? It's always been a dream of yours, hasn't it?"
"Hmmm... what? Oh. Yes, well I wrote that off when I decided I wanted to get married. It was a good trade off." To myself I add, especially since she's here on the boat with me for a whole year now and we're looking forward to at least one more, which I never expected to happen.. Figuring that was the end of the conversation, I dove back into my book.
A few minutes later: "How long would it take?"
"Huh? What? Take to do what?" Obviously I wasn't keeping up with the discussion.
"To sail around the world." she said.
"Oh... um... about 3 or 4 years I think." Depends on which route you take and how long you mess around along the way." Ok, now back to the book, it's a really good part... wait, did she say something again?
"What was that sweety?" I said a little strained this time, it really was a good part in the book.
"I said, why don't we do it then?" She repeated.
After a few seconds, I scrape my jaw up off the floor and wipe what was probably a pretty silly look off my face. "Really?" "Are you serious?"
She's serious. Wow. Really WOW.
So, we dug out Jimmy Cornell's encyclopedic "World Cruising Routes" and got to work.
A couple months have passed since this conversation and the planning has raised some timing questions. To avoid hurricane season in the South Pacific, we need to transit the Panama Canal sometime in the spring, probably in April. So, we have a decision to make: return to the US for another summer after this winter's trip to the Caribbean or turn left and head for Panama and the South Pacific. We have a lot of prep work to do and the summer is half over. So as not to rush things we may wait a year. This would also give Quinn another year so he remembers more of it. We'll probably make the timing decision by the end of August.
I'm still pinching myself.
Did I mention I married the coolest lady in the world?
"Mmmph?" I respond, pretending to pay attention to the question while I'm reading a book. A bad habit I have.
"You've always wanted to do a circumnavigation haven't you? It's always been a dream of yours, hasn't it?"
"Hmmm... what? Oh. Yes, well I wrote that off when I decided I wanted to get married. It was a good trade off." To myself I add, especially since she's here on the boat with me for a whole year now and we're looking forward to at least one more, which I never expected to happen.. Figuring that was the end of the conversation, I dove back into my book.
A few minutes later: "How long would it take?"
"Huh? What? Take to do what?" Obviously I wasn't keeping up with the discussion.
"To sail around the world." she said.
"Oh... um... about 3 or 4 years I think." Depends on which route you take and how long you mess around along the way." Ok, now back to the book, it's a really good part... wait, did she say something again?
"What was that sweety?" I said a little strained this time, it really was a good part in the book.
"I said, why don't we do it then?" She repeated.
After a few seconds, I scrape my jaw up off the floor and wipe what was probably a pretty silly look off my face. "Really?" "Are you serious?"
She's serious. Wow. Really WOW.
So, we dug out Jimmy Cornell's encyclopedic "World Cruising Routes" and got to work.
A couple months have passed since this conversation and the planning has raised some timing questions. To avoid hurricane season in the South Pacific, we need to transit the Panama Canal sometime in the spring, probably in April. So, we have a decision to make: return to the US for another summer after this winter's trip to the Caribbean or turn left and head for Panama and the South Pacific. We have a lot of prep work to do and the summer is half over. So as not to rush things we may wait a year. This would also give Quinn another year so he remembers more of it. We'll probably make the timing decision by the end of August.
I'm still pinching myself.
Did I mention I married the coolest lady in the world?
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