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We’ve been using Calvert since April for our 7 year old daughter and have found it to not require much connectivity at all. There are online “checkpoints” for each lesson but we tend to just catch up on those when we have a decent connection as they are just review and not time consuming...

I totally agree. The Wi-Fi part of mine works great but it’s the cellular modem part that would be nice to be able to upgrade/update.

Very unfortunate. I purchased one only a few months ago after seeing a decent review on Panbo, and while it works okay when it works it is less than reliable - often requiring power cycling for no reason to get the cellular data to work. Their customer service was decent but I never really...

After going north to Alaska from where we live in SF bay and then down the west coast of North America we’ve been considering either going through the canal and over to the Caribbean and eventually across to the med via Bermuda and the Azores. A more recent idea would be Mexico to the...

What is it specifically about the Nordhavn 40 vs let’s say their 46 that is not much bigger and has dozens of documented ocean crossings? We plan to do some long term cruising on an N40 and although it may be uncomfortable at times didn’t consider crossing an ocean out of the question. The...

Take a look at garhauer blocks with snap shackles. They are nice and compact and have decent working loads. I'm using some of their fiddle blocks for overhead lifting of a small whaler that is approximately 700 lbs. https://garhauermarine.com/catalog_process.cfm?cid=16

We are considering doing a 2 week trip from SF Bay to Catalina as a shakedown trip for some extended cruising into. Mexico and points south in November. Im wondering what the best month is to make the trip up and down the coast to Catalina and back, which includes rounding Point Conception...