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  • 20 Aug 2012 07:48
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    Reply # 1051298 on 1050548
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    Brian Kerslake wrote:Hi Bernard

    Your sailing plans are challenging compared to ours, but good luck with them.

    If you need a base on the Isle of Wight, try East Cowes Marina. We spent some of last winter there - friendly staff (one of whom recently sailed back from the Caribbean), great faciilities and some wide berths. They also matched a winter price deal we had found on the mainland.

    Who are you working with on the IOW re your hybrid engine?

    Brian
    Hi Brian

    Thank you for the informations.
    I work with hybrid marine : http://www.hybrid-marine.co.uk/

    Bertrand
  • 18 Aug 2012 23:50
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    Reply # 1050548 on 1047281
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    Hi Bernard

    Your sailing plans are challenging compared to ours, but good luck with them.

    If you need a base on the Isle of Wight, try East Cowes Marina. We spent some of last winter there - friendly staff (one of whom recently sailed back from the Caribbean), great faciilities and some wide berths. They also matched a winter price deal we had found on the mainland.

    Who are you working with on the IOW re your hybrid engine?

    Brian
    Last modified: 18 Aug 2012 23:51 | Deleted user
  • 18 Aug 2012 22:37
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    Reply # 1050509 on 1049194
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    Brian Kerslake wrote:Hi Bernard

    When we sailed along the coasts of west France, Northern Spain and Portugal we found that wi-fi was pretty poor most of the time but our USB 'dongle' worked just about everywhere. When we've got ourselves moving again (Paradox is suffering from a melted engine wiring loom at the mo, in Dartmouth) we hope to cross from Falmouth to L'Arberwrach and then to Brest. If summer ever starts that is. Perhaps we'll see you there.

    Brian

    Hi Brian

    If  you sail in Brittany in the beginning of September we'll be somewhere at anchor in the Rade de Brest after to have launched GRAND PHA (the Saturday 1st September or Monday  3rd September according the speed to reassemble the cata) to finish to rig she and when she will able to sail, we'll sail until Morgat to finish to prepare she and to test  she before to sail in UK to visit the Wharrams at Devoran, have a stop at Plymouth and to continue until  the isle of Wight to finalise our hybrid propulsion.
    After we'll sail back in Morgat in waiting to have a good weather forecast to sail south toward Azores and after toward the Caribbean isles.
    So perhaps at very soon.

    Bertrand
  • 17 Aug 2012 00:14
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    Hi Bernard

    When we sailed along the coasts of west France, Northern Spain and Portugal we found that wi-fi was pretty poor most of the time but our USB 'dongle' worked just about everywhere. When we've got ourselves moving again (Paradox is suffering from a melted engine wiring loom at the mo, in Dartmouth) we hope to cross from Falmouth to L'Arberwrach and then to Brest. If summer ever starts that is. Perhaps we'll see you there.

    Brian
    Last modified: 17 Aug 2012 00:15 | Deleted user
  • 15 Aug 2012 22:04
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    Thank you David for your explanations.

    I bought a long distance WIFI antenna, but as you say the commercial WIFI is not available on all the places I'll take so as you a 3G key.

    Amitiés, Bertrand
  • 15 Aug 2012 01:12
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    Bertrand Fercot wrote:Hello David

    Can you tell us which system you use to get always very good Web connexions to receive and send big datas?

    Amitiés,
    Bertrand

    Bertrand,
    I only use the 3G mobile data system that is available in most places now. Here in Tahiti, the supplier is VINI, in New Zealand it was Telecom (and others, including Vodaphone), in Australia it was Telstra (and others, including Vodaphone). The first thing I have to do when I reach a new country is to find the nearest store for mobile phones, and buy the USB stick and pre-paid SIM card for that country. 
    Here in Tahiti, there are also some commercial WiFi operations (Iaoranet, Manaspot, WDG), but you have to be very near to the transmitter, or buy an antenna to boost the signal. I have found it more convenient to use 3G. In New Zealand and Australia, there were almost no commercial Wifi operations available for use.
    I look forward to the day when there will have been a big move towards satellite communications, the price will have fallen, and it will be possible to have one economic system that will work anywhere in the world, but I fear that it is not going to happen in my sailing lifetime.
    David.
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