Bare Necessities
Your equipment will make the key difference between "survival" and "exploration". Of course your own mindset, destination and its people really matter - not all that fancy and expensive material - anyhow carrying just about enough of the correct carefully selected gear - fitted to the type of trip - will be key to prolongued joy and being prepared for the unexpected.
Mnemonic
BRiGS
Bakboord-Rood / Groen-Stuurboord
Red = political left / StuuRboord R from Right
Babort / Tribord
Port wine should be left alone when it is red
i.e. port (left) red, so starboard (right) green
Crash-course
Groen op groen = doen
Rood op rood = geen nood
1 foot | approx. 30 cm so 1 meter is 10 cm longer then 3 feet |
20 foot | approx. 6 meters compare with small box container |
40 foot | twice as long i.e. large box container |
Laser Rigging & Sailing
Great 1st time Laser sailing Sunday 5th August 2007 at Kinrooi with Sunshine (rare this Summer) & steady South East Wind blowing 3 beaufort.
Specs
Length | 4.23m |
Beam | 1.42m |
Hull Weight | 59kg |
Small Sail Area (curved mast) | Laser 4.70m2 |
Medium Sail Area | Laser Radial 5.76m2 |
Large = Standard Sail Area | Laser 7.06m2 |
Attention Points
Glaskogen Sweden
500 km from Helsingborg, close to Swedish-Norwegian border
http://www.arvika.se/~glaskog/engram.htm
FarOut Summer 2007
GR126 Sint Stevens Woluwe to Ottignies - Louvain-la-Neuve
Besides the GR12 (which crosses Hallerbos) one of nicest GR-walks through Brussels
- Start Sint Stevens Woluwe
- Southbound path along Woluwe
- Ex-railway converted into path up to Audergem
- Watermaal Bosvoorde get into forest
- Here we join the actual GR126
- Part West of R0 (partly along "Vuile Beek")
- Extending East of R0
- Via French-Brabant, i.e. Gaillemarde, Hannonsart, Ransbèche, Ohain, Lasne, Couture-St.-Germain
- Leave GR126 turning East at Sauvagemont following power-lines
Site Content
- Berlin
- Yunnan
- China 92
- Poem
- Cartoon
- Scan Yao family-photo > S'hai Summer 1979 SY 18 yrs SS 16 yrs
- Fusion/Chinese dishes via Welcome & discovery (block in header or left-menu with picture)?
Web Design
- Upgrade Drupal
- Discovery menu category > priority + default = travel A & B
- Better wiki query
- Security on Node Types
- Applet tree Wiki entries with nested nodes/categories
- School of Athens
- How to set permissions on content type
- Safest configuration access to files/images directory
- Calender week-view doesn't display items properly
Digital Nautical Charts
SeaClear II freeware: http://www.sping.com/seaclear (freeware).With MapCal II tool included in SeaClear, you can calibrate scanned maps and convert them to the lighter WCI format. Scan the maps in A4 parts, stitch them with software such as GIMP and reduce size down to 30 percent, because images larger than 15 MB take too long to load in MapCal (level of detail will be more then sufficient). Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/seaclear_mapping.
Use small netbook attached with Velcro straps on navigation table.