Cruisers Email Solutions

Would you spend the whole day in the library if you were sailing through Florida? Well we did. It takes a lot of time to keep these updates up and email our friendlies. It’s the only way of contact we have left. So after breaking for pizza lunch we are back on the computer, emailing happily away.

Email, cruisers and a whole different bag of a story.

A little side note on the email, Internet and cruising. It’s amazing how well suited for cruiser’s life-style email really is. Everybody relies on it for a contact with family and friends left behind. Cruisers of all shapes and budgets find e-mail access indispensable. I’ve seen all sorts of set-ups on boats. Satellite phones with a monthly subscription to an email service that compresses, sends and receives text-only emails within seconds anywhere you dream of going. I’ve seen full size desktop running off the inverter, marinized laptops and regular notebooks carried in a thick zip-lock bags. There was a bunch of cruisers carrying their PocketMail, sending and receiving their emails whenever payphone was available. One family was subscribing to an email service over their shortwave radio, although it seemed to be the least reliable of them all. And then, of course, you had a fair following, sailors like ourselves, who just dash in to any library that is around. In the Bahamas we would find out that you can purchase monthly Internet access to be used with your own laptop from any Bahamian telecommunication center, called Batelco, available in most inhabited islands. Some time a cute chick from Canada would appear on some forsaken islands to plug in her little 10 inch Mac computer to write home her stories about AfterBlue. That however is a whole different bag. The story, not the girl, that is.

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