Do you have a blog for your boat/travels?

Lots of folks here seem to do some neat things with their boat. *Do you have a blog you run with pictures and journal entries of your times aboard? *If so post a link so we can follow along. *I need some more winter time reading.

Please Spring- hurry up and come back to visit. *Bring with you your friends, warm breezes, chirping birds, sunshine, blue skies, and warm water.

Seems like a cool idea but I don't know where or how to blog.

Not sure I know where the term came from.

How about on Trawler Forum.

Mr Baker could set us up with a place for blogs.

SD

http://pineapple-girl.blogspot.com/

I'm bad about pictures though.* Half the time I forget to take my camera to the boat and the other half the time I don't download the pictures for*a long time after I take them.

Mostly only my parents and brother read my blog.

http://ennossapphire32.blogspot.com/



Not a lot on it yet, but working on it.

Two on my signature line. Chuck

Not just blogs but websites as well. Maybe not as current as it should be as we have not be using the boat as much as we would like. Oh well the 2011 season is about to get underway. Click on the link in my signature.

I'm fairly sure nobody gives a flying crap about reading about my boating experiences.

Here is the address to ours: Have a look.
*http://mvgumbo.blogspot.com** covers our 2010 trip from*Houma, Louisiana along the ICW*to Marathon in the Keys*then back up the east coast of FL to Stuart, across to the Gulf via Okeechobee W.W.*.*
*** This year we are leaving March 1st so will resume posting to it then. We have to be home May 1 so will only go as far as Ft Myers/*Sanibel*and have to head back from there this year.
** Keeping a blog is quite easy once you get the hang of it, and it's*Free! It*makes it easy for friends and family to keep track of where you are.
* Keep in mind these blogs read bassakwards, you have to go to the end for the first entry, work your way to the end of the trip*from the bottom up. The entries are listed on the right hand side of the page
*Steve W.

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www.kekada.com

No trawlering yet but covers our sailing trips including circumnavigation. Hopefully we*can start adding the trawler voyages in the 2nd half of this year.

Just started last year.
http://southern-promise.blogspot.com/

I started a blog beginning with the launch of Delia Rosa in 2009. *Unfortunately, I only manage to post until June 26, 2009... just the first part of our journey home. *I wasn't very disciplined about writing posts when we didn't have internet access and eventually abandoned the blog. *It was a great way to stay in touch with family and friends though and keep them advised of our location.


http://www.sailblogs.com/member/deliarosa/

Steve wrote:

** Keeping a blog is quite easy once you get the hang of it, and it's*Free!

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OK so how does one blog?

Can you give a site to go to?

I would love to try it out.

SD*

GonzoF1 says:I'm fairly sure nobody gives a flying crap about reading about my boating experiences.*




You might be surprised!!

SkipperDude,
www.blogspot.com is the one I use. It seems to be a Google site so you will need a google account, also free, to sign in. Then look around, the help section should take care of any quiestions.
There are other sites for blogging also.
Good luck,
Steve W.

Many thanks.

SD

Delia Rosa wrote:

GonzoF1 says:I'm fairly sure nobody gives a flying crap about reading about my boating experiences.*

You might be surprised!!

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I agree. Everyone here has experiences that others enjoy hearing about and learning from. That is one of the major purposes of this forum I think!

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Our blog is done to let friends and family know where we are and what we are doing.* There are some none boating trips thrown in.* We love cruising with friends and family, but seldom cruise with a large group of boats.* It also keeps a diary of the trip for us.* Gonzo is probably right.* It is interesting* probably only to us and family, but we enjoy it anyway.* I do enjoy reading other boating blogs.

http://moonstruckblog.wordpress.com/

I keep up with several cruising blogs.. but I keep hoping to find more trawler type blogs than sailing blogs.. *so get blogging... we want to read more!!

Delia Rosa,
Can I tell you how MUCH I love this pic in your blog?!

It was a really lucky moment to snap the right picture... glad you bothered to check into our blog - I'm only sorry that I didn't stay with it. *The blog was really a chance to stay connected with many of our friends and share some of our adventures... *and it was quite an adventure!!!

Delia Rosa wrote:


I started a blog beginning with the launch of Delia Rosa in 2009. *Unfortunately, I only manage to post until June 26, 2009... just the first part of our journey home. *I wasn't very disciplined about writing posts when we didn't have internet access and eventually abandoned the blog. *It was a great way to stay in touch with family and friends though and keep them advised of our location.


http://www.sailblogs.com/member/deliarosa/

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You have just got to keep that blog going.* Great photos and such a great cruising area.* Sites a great and the food is wonderful.* Just about everyone has used the 1210 training chart that makes them familiar with the area.* Love it.

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r-rossow wrote:

Just started last year.
http://southern-promise.blogspot.com/

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Serious cruising on a beautiful boat.* Can the blog be accessed in English language?

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I wish I had started a blog for our trawler when we first bought her. Oh well. Better late than never. I love writing and posting pictures so I hope to update it regularly. I've been using blogger for a long time for aspects of my work but I am looking forward to using it for "fun" via the new blog I created today:
http://trawlerlivinglight.blogspot.com/

Most of the pics you all have seen here on TF! lol

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That looks like a good start Tony. Looking forward to seeing more
Steve W

Mostly about our ICW trip last year. www.scootersvoyage.blogspot.com

Moonstruck wrote:

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r-rossow wrote:

Just started last year.
http://southern-promise.blogspot.com/

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Serious cruising on a beautiful boat.* Can the blog be accessed in English language?

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The way to have almost any text translated into almost any language is to access Google Translate (http://translate.google.com/). Either copy/paste the text or enter the URL of the web page in question and hit the Translate button.

This is what came out when I translated my own blog.*

The translate mechanism will not offer you a fluent English text, the text will be somewhere between word-by-word translation and fluent text. The dictionary is not exhaustive in any way. Unknown source words that cannot be translated will just filter thru unchanged. Like "Geartrøbbel" (which translates to "gear box trouble").*It will still give you a pretty good understanding of the original text.

The Google Earth insert contains the actual GPS track from our 5 week transit.*Updating the track on a daily basis*on my blog was somewhat fiddly. (Switch output format on Garmin GPS from NMEA to Garmin format ->*Download track file*from GPS to PC -> Switch output format on Garmin GPS back to NMEA ->*Convert Garmin track file format*to Google Earth .KML format on PC*-> Upload track file to GPSVisualizer -> Download GPSVisualizer HTML -> Edit GPSVisualizer HTML -> Paste GPSVisualizer HTML into Blogspot).*I will start looking into an easier way to keep the*track updated as we cruise.

Also coming up for this*season is using my new Android phone for blog updates. Just started experimenting on this.

Roger

Surely some other folks here on TF has blogs...??? Don't be shy!

We have a website, more for documenting the restoration of our boat than our travels.
We did the same thing with our last boat which, when it came time to sell her was the best advertising tool*we could have had.
I also found that documenting the work on a regular basis was a great motivator to keep at it, sometimes when I didn't feel like it! - Boyd
[url]www.grandbanks42.com[/url]

AS I don't have a boat (yet)* I don't have a Blog for her and her travels.* I do however keep up with WAY too much info on trawler blogs.* There are many different ones out there from the rich and famous - Ken & Roberta Williams (creators/founders of the Sierra-Online Software company) who are on there second Nordavn (see www.nordhavn68.com) and a wonderful blog about a couple from Kansas who own Eliana, a Nordhavn 76 (see www.eliana76.com).* I am more keenly interested in families cruising more modestly so you can find some on www.trawlerblogs.com) in fact you can find more than you have time to read.* The guy who put it together says he was tired of doing what I do looking for blogs and has created a pretty neat way to look at a lot.* He's even got a way to look just at blogs about a particular brand of Trawler.

Okay I've said enough.* Tony send me a pm and I'll give you some other Family who are cruising blogs I've found.

skipperdude wrote:
OK so how does one blog?

Can you give a site to go to?


I would love to try it out.

SD*

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Someone else has already posted a weblog host site (blogspot) - there are others but that happens to be the one I use.* Something that I have found useful is to use an offline writer so I don't have to be connected to the web while I am writing.* I use Messysoft's Livewriter but again there are other - my wife uses something called Wordpress.* I doubt it much matters what you use, it just makes life easier to use something.

Our adventures are chronicled here:
<a href="http://www.travellingwithgeorge.blogspot.com" target="_blank" title="Travels with George">http://www.travellingwithgeorge.blogspot.com
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