Favorite links?? Submit your External Links here....

[CapnK]

Have a link that you think we should add? Post it here...

[Captain Smollett]

Hey CapnK, here are two links to consider:

Billy Bones Locker
A Treasure Island

The first one's an online store (lots of books) and the second is just about RLS's Treasure Island.

[CapnK]

AArrrhh! Those are definitely getting added! Thanks!

[The Edge]

Hi,

     I just touched base with Latitudes & Attitudes.com at Greg's Pub.
I passed the word along.  I hope more folks join.

     

[Jack Tar]

http://cruisenews.net/index.php

www.latsandatts.com

www.yachtworld.com

[CapnK]

Page is updated.

[Zen]

interesting reading site

http://www.motivation-tools.com/adventures/index.htm

[djn]

Here is a very cool site of two old farts that took a small boat around the world.  Cheers and happy reading. 

http://www.berrimilla.com/

[Zen]

Yeah, interesting read. I posted that link on the sea-generator topic, because they used one.

[hearsejr]

 I met a couple living the dream and thay were as broke as I am. they said I was more then welcomed to join them but I would need find room to lay my head. they were on a 23' sailboat, with a 4 h.p. murc. and new set of sails...well almost new.
 here's their story as they told me.
  Jim was a forman at a textile company in New York, and he was not making the money, that one would expect, thus his nest egg was a whopping goose egg. he was laid off in sept., and the com. went out of the U.S., along with all floor staff.  he tried to drew unemployment, but it didn't last long and was not suficient (spl?) too make his rent and food, and utlities. he took a side job restoring a guys sailboat and while walking through the yards he saw a cute little boat, sitting in the far corner of the yard. he said he threw his best poker face on and went to work trying to con the yard owner out of it, and the owner did the same, well he got it for $250, which was paid by the guy who he was working for as a gift for being there when ever called.  Jim said he was looking on a bulletin board and saw a listing for some old sails left over from a storm wrecked boat..."ANY OFFER CONSIDERED!" so as a half hurdy joke he offered $100. the guy said he'll think about it and the next night the guy called and said he'll go as low as $250 for the whole set and a dodger. Jim went and bought them and promptly sold the dodger to a friend for $100, and bottle of cheap wine.
 the gang at the yard started helping him get the little boat shape...he said it was in great condition, just dirty...and about three days later it was rigged and in the water.
 Jim was no jobless and left to go sailing down to GA, where he said a friend had a doc for him to camp out at. he stopped in N.J. to get some food and a guy trying to flag him down was stranded when his motor conked out and the little boat he was in was leaking. Jim picked the guy up and they pulled in to a doc, where the guy said he could have the little boat and the motor. Jim didn't have a motor so he paddled..as he called it, the last few feet to the docs.  while getting food, he met a girl in the check out line who just broke up with her hubby after he was cought living witrh another girl with another family.  so Beck was now looking a new life and Jim was looking a new crewmen..eerr crew lady.. and they said it was a match  made in heaven. sofar they have repaired the outboard and gave the worn out little boat(maybe a big dingy) too a kid who wanted a boat. it needed a transom becouse it was rotted around the drain plug. Beck knows more about how to repair stuff, but Jim is learning and they said they will sail to G.A., stay a few weeks and work on getting some yard cleaning jobs or som'n and then go. the said I was welcomed to go along but I was not inclined to live in cockpit shorter then I was...yet.
 I donated a sailing for dummies book and a few magazines to them. and a tiney tv, a flairgun, two newwer life jackets.
 it's good to know that there are two more us out there, but I was a little concerned when they were reading about triston jones and thats what they were using as insperation.
 Bill

[Zen]

For the spiritual- God put us where we need to be.

For the non - Sometimes you just have to go with the flow of the universe.

[hearsejr]

oooopppps forgot to say I told them about this site, and they said as soon as they get up and learn about the internet they'll stop by.

 Bill

[CapnK]

Bill -

Do you have any idea what their itinerary is? Have they left from up there yet? Contact info? The reason I ask is because I can give them some "local knowledge" that might come in handy for them on the leg from Wrightsville Bch to Georgetown, and maybe cook them a dinner if they stop here in Georgetown or something...

[Iceman]

CapnK

Whats the easiest way to post a link in a message

i.e. I have my Commander up for sale on sailfer and a interested party wants the link

Thanks

Iceman

[CapnK]

Ice -

When you are writing the post (or replying to one), look up above where your text is, where it says "Add BBC tags:". On the lower row of those buttons, third from left is a little globe that, if you click on it, puts the following into your text area:

Code:

[url] [/url]

When you click the globe and see the url "tags" (Note: they will be closer together than what you see above, I spread them a bit for easier reading), you put the link in between them, like so:

Code:

[url]Put the link in here[/url]

How's that?

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More advanced, for later on if you'd like to try it:

If you want to make a link that looks like this:

sailFar ,

where there is a name for the link, the code to do that is like so:

Code:

[url=http://sailfar.net]sailFar[/url]

The difference is in the first {url} tag - add an 'equals' = sign after the 'L' l in "url", and before the ']', and put the link in there. The name you want to use goes where the link was in the first example - between that and the second {/url}.

Have fun!

[Iceman]

Please go to sailfer discussion and let me know if I ,made it happen
Ice

[CapnK]

You got it, my man! Good job!

I'll make it a little shorter, just for looks.

[Iceman]

I copied and pasted the whole page is that why url was long?

[CapnK]

The way some websites are set up, they have really long URL's, that's all. You did just fine.

So don't worry 'bout it, Ice, it's not a big deal, I was just making it look nicer for sailFar visitors.

(Hey - how much commision do I get? lol )

[hearsejr]

 Beck wrote my number down and said they'll call me before they leave.  I believe they are going down the ICW, and will be stopping off near Wilmington...maybe spend a day or two there.  I gave them a set of charts for N.C.. and they are planning to meet up with a couple somewhere in S.C..  the guy that Jim worked on the boat for gave them some maps and charts of the G.A. and S.C. areas and he will meet them in G.A. and get them too the docs. I think they'll be in or Darien (spl?) G.A., about 20 miles from Brunswick.
 they said they'll come and visit the site as soon as they get on their feet.
 Bill