We're looking for the trash fence...

Everyone in Neah Bay's Makah Marina seems to be either a recreational or trade fisherman and as such the Marina and its facilities have that well worn trawler look and smell. ;-)

We're using the Marina for its shore power connection to fully charge, fill and equalize the batteries. Today we'll doing the equalization so we will have most systems offline. There is also no ATT Wireless here, and only place has WiFi which works (Linda's Wood-Fired Pizza), although even it is spotty. This means we're not our normal webFoursquareFacebookTwitter updating selves.

We're looking at the weather and maybe going to head offshore Thursday or this weekend depending on the battery equalization and how the weather looks.

With the HAM Radio we can still update the blog and get weather forecasts. I LOVE the radio!! I've still yet to make to a voice contact, but probably will call in to one of the nets tonight for my first contact.

All is well here and we hope the same is true with you!

I just made my first contact with a winlink post office via HAM Radio. This will be the first post to the blog directly via HAM Radio. All I can say is WOO HOO !!

We are relaxing at City Pier in Port Angeles working on projects and waiting Yi go to Neah Bay. No Internet on the dock and still working out ssb/ham kinks so use the AIS tracking link we sent over twitter yesterday for following along info.

We left behind our step and some words of encouragement for those who asked how could we do this, the “inscription” reads:

The first step is the hardest to take

s/v Deep Playa 2011

We love this town!

Woo hoo!!! This makes it feel very real!

A few days ago I got the Postie plugin for Wordpress working and tonight I'm testing that the WP to Twitter plugin is working as well. Normally I use Windows Live Writer to author my blog posts and when I publish to the blog, there is a Live Writer plugin which also sends a tweet. With these two plugins I can email over HAM or SSB radio and still post and send a tweet and it will work like magic!

I've been working on this for months, and moved hosting companies to one which had the right base images and policies to let me run Wordpress as I wanted with the plugins I wanted. Happy to be on http://www.bluehost.com/ thus far things look pretty good.

One thing you might want to notice is that to date you have seen the author as Patrick or Dawn when we post from the web or using Windows Live Writer. When I post from the HAM radio the posts will be from "sv Deep Playa". Minor thing really but I think it's fun to keep the posts separate.

One more geeky toy is working. :-)