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From: rec.boats.cruising
From: Dan Hogan
Date: 2002 Jul 31, 06:11 -0700
From: Dan Hogan
Date: 2002 Jul 31, 06:11 -0700
Jimmy Cornell, the author of the two famous books --
World Cruising Routes & World Cruising Handbook,
sets up a website:
http://www.noonsite.com
to cope with the ever-changing world cruising information.
The site now covers 1,317 ports in 190 countries and pretty
up-to-date. Check it out.
However, I still believe the best way to collect cruising info
is setting up a database such that all of us -- cruisers, can be direct
and instant authors. Imagine, if you bother a few minutes to enter Today's
diesel price in Cape Town, post an official's photo when he requested bribe
in Suez yesterday or report a light malfunction in Chile... and people in
Spain read it as you write. The value of such channel is beyond description.
With this goal in mind, I set up the site:
http://www.7knots.com
so every one of you can be a direct author! You can enter a log via
internet browser or you can send an email via HAM/SSB. It automatically
enters the database. You can edit it any time and insert photo links to your
heart's content. Check out what Geoff Schultz has entered with his boat
Blue Jacket! That's a lot of first-hand cruising information in the
Caribbean.
7knots uses informix database engine. It can handle a most discriminating
search in a blink among 10 million records. All we needs now is that 10
million reports! Every bit counts.
Tom
Dan Hogan
dhhogan1@earthlink.net
