I’ve been poking around the web all day, more to see what I can find than with any particular purpose. I’m just trying to get an idea of what’s out there.
The sailing world seems frozen in the Web 1.0 of ten years ago. Even pretty good blogs feature such blasts from the past as webrings. Also, you may note with despair how each new post is on a different page.
Worse, there seems to be almost no good information available for free. There is good computer software out there, but nothing like Google Earth, for instance. While getting driving directions is easy and cheap online, there does not seem to be any resource for plotting a reasonable cruising course.
Passage Weather does seem to be one of the good resources out there. I can browse around and get an idea if today is a good day to sail out of Marseilles bound for Genoa, for instance (its not).
Most excitingly, the Swagman Blog details a journey all around the med, full circle from Spain to Egypt in 9 months. This is exactly what we want to do, but perhaps at a slower pace!
