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Preparation

As our access to onboard technology continues to improve we have to keep adapting. Since we now have Starlink for communication and weather downloads we no longer need to have a predictwind account, the downside is that we lost the tracking and associated blog. It took a while but I've come up with a solution. We can use the Garmin inreach for tracking and I've downloaded an app to make a blog. Amazing? Or very amazing? 

So this is a test to see how it goes. 

Don't get over excited. My blog entries covering our yacht deliveries are pretty mundane and I have, in the past, received constructive criticism saying "a bit more information would be nice" (Thanks Gary), and "you do know other people read this as well?". That came after I wrote that some fisherman chased after us while we were sailing and shouted over "do you want to trade rum for fish?" and I replied "Yes, but we haven't got any fish". 

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