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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Exporting This Blog to Word Press This Week……
Hi, all:
OK, this week, I am exporting ‘Rapture‘ to a new hosting service, Word Press.org., which will give me a little more flexibility in terms of what I can do with it, as well as make it look more professional.
It can be a complex procedure, but luckily, my web hosting service has good technical support and does most of the ‘grunt work’ automatically, so, mercifully, I don’t have to set up SQL databases and other scary things.
However, like anything else, involving human beings [and especially software ], there’s the chance something will go wrong.
If you don’t get any entries for two weeks or so, let me know, as I rarely go that long without diving–you’ll know something is wrong. 
Actually, the good news is, while quite a bit more work will be involved, it won’t actually replace the one you see here, until it’s completely ready to go.
Until it’s ready, please use http://scubapro25.blogspot.com/ to access this blog, as www.raptureofthedeep.org will be under construction for a while!
Thanks for your patience,
Mikey
Sailing
A word about sailing. Like anything else, it's a skill.
Modern sailboats are engineering marvels, but basic skills are required to know how to function efficiently on them.
If you're invited out on one for more than a day, take a basic course in sailing: learn the different parts of the ship and how they work; learn the various types of sails and how to raise them and manage them.
Although many sailboats have auto pilot and GPS for navigation, the skipper may become busy and ask you to help out and it helps if you know a few knots and how to raise and lower sails.
Because of things like GPS and auto pilot, you don't need to learn navigation unless you're going to own your own sailboat…and then, you should.
The Coast Guard Auxiliary teaches courses in basic sailing and navigation.
Sailing can be a lot fun, but the more you know about it, the more useful you will be to the skipper and the more you will get out of it.
Mike Bear
www.raptureofthedeep.org
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Friday, we left Avalon Harbor and about 10:30 a.m. and motored North towards 2 Harbors, arriving after about a 3 hour trip.
The San Diego Club had already arrived ahead of us , so Barbara and I took a couple nice, refreshing showers and settled in to our cabins.
We may do a nighttime shore dive here in 2 Harbors tonight, followed by a boat dive first thing in the morning.
*** Composed with vlingo for BlackBerry. http://www.vlingo.com/voice
Mike Bear
www.raptureofthedeep.org
[Sent from my 'Crackberry' Curve]
1st Leg of Catalina Trip: Avalon Harbor
We left to San Diego about 1:30 p m on April 22 and journeyed for about 20 hours to Avalon Harbor Catalina.
About 1 hour into the journey, the auto pilot failed, so we each had to take turns at the helm navigating by GPS through the night.
It was a new experience for me and Barbara.
We arrived in Avalon Harbor about 8 a m on April 23rd a bit tired, but took the time for a quick food shopping trip in to Avalon Harbor, before returning back to the boat for a much needed nap.
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Mike Bear
www.raptureofthedeep.org
[Sent from my 'Crackberry' Curve]
