6. Contact arrangements
Callidus Harwich and Beyond
Richard Wells
Sun 8 Jun 2008 09:20
Hi
All,
Tuesday I start for Falmouth from Harwich in yacht
Callidus. (Actually Richard says we are just heading for Ramsgate to
see what happens first - good philosophy!)
You
can track our progress (hopefully) on http://blog.mailasail.com/callidus
The blog also has
an RSS feed which is painless way of getting our updates if you have
broadband...
Our email address is callidus {CHANGE TO AT} mailasail {DOT} com - a cheap
way for you to get in touch whilst we are at sea, but not too cheap for us via
the sat phone!
I
will put photos of the trip on my MySpace site when I can get a less
expensive connection ashore (the sat phone is about £1 per minute) - see http://www.myspace.com/dickhoughton
look
at yacht photos and Richard's website for info (not the
trip) at http://www.ryacourses.net/about.html
We plan
to update each day via the satellite phone or by local wi-fi if the marina
has one. Richard will take the sat phone from Falmouth when I come home from
there on around June 21st. He hopes to update on the way from Falmouth
to Tenerife where I expect to join him in October, all being well. If we
have to bale out in Dunkerque or Dover... well that's the way the cookey
crumbles with yachts - after all we don't want the
Skipper getting his feet wet!
The sat phone
will be switched on for a short time each day to receive calls from you (don't
unless you want to take out a mortgage!) or SMS (do - it is fairly cheap but
check it out). I will put the schedule on the blog and I will send the contact
phone number later.
Happy blog
viewing! If you have any suggestions (apart from unquotable ones!) about
all this then please tell me!
And do
forward this message to anyone you think would be interested in our
trip.
Our satellite
phone number is +881631646198
My mobile number is
+44931714990
Carol's home number is +441502518874 (01502
518874)
My proposed satellite phone listening
watch schedule is 2000 to 2300 British local time (currently BST
but will be GMT in November-ish). We might revise this depending how much juice
it uses. This is convenient for all I think as it stays fixed for you at home
but gets earlier in the local day as (if) we go across to the
Caribbean.
Dick