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QOTD 11/07/09 — <style></style> "Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago... Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every m...

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Wintering in Turkey 06/16/09 — Marmaris, Turkey is a very economical Marina for wintering "on-the-hard."Here's why:1). As you can see from the satellite photo, they really pack in the boats! Launch is clearly on a Last-in, First-out basis so if you miss your launch date expect big fees to move you around and reshuffle.2). As you c...

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Hvar, Croatia 06/22/08 — Flying the "steal your face" flag tied to the town quay in Hvar (Croatia's St. Tropez). Met quite a few Americans who couldn't get over seeing a US sailboat with "Portland, OR" as its hailing port here in Croatia....

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Bella Italia 05/10/08 — Nothing like making landfall in Lipari (the Aeolian Islands) and being greeted by dolphins. Or gazing at the red glow in the distance, from the volcano on the island of Stromboli, in the early morning darkness ("the lighthouse of the Mediterranean... It guided Odysseus towards the twin perils o...

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Can't Stop 03/27/08 — Can't stop addicted to the shin digCop top he says Im gonna win bigChoose not a life of imitationDistant cousin to the reservation-- Can't Stop, Red Hot Chili PeppersThey must have played this song twenty or more times celebratingthe finish of the America's Cup in Valencia last July. I'd neverheard i...

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Weatherfax 02/11/08 — I finally got my Furuno weatherfax working here in the Med. Last year I used the frequencies and transmission times from Heikell's "Italian Waters Pilot" with no luck. This year I used the data from Imray's "Mediterranean Almanac 2007-08" which seems to work. The data available here is kind of disapp...

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Test your cultural literacy 01/25/08 — Name the man standing in front of the "Further" bus.

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Hedging Foreign Currency Exposure 01/25/08 — When I finally pulled the trigger on buying a boat directly from Hallberg-Rassy I became an unwitting currency speculator. Here's what I learned in the process. Because Hallberg-Rassy is a Swedish company they price their boats in their home currency: Swedish Kronor (SEK). In early 2006 wh...

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Outfitting for the 2008 Sailing Season 01/02/08 — A few days ago I ordered a C-map SD card for my Furuno chartplotter to cover my intended navigation area: Eastern Med. I ordered the m-em-m003: Mediterranean, Aegean, Black Sea and much to my surprise I received a card labelled m-em-m917. Apparently C-map has updated their product line fro...

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Ship's Log 12/30/07 — This blog is intended as a sporadic record of the travels of S/V Further in the Mediterranean.S/V Further is a Hallberg-Rassy 37, American-flagged sailboat.

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