LinoCat

Hi, many have asked us about the "How?" of using a kite while sailing to get some pictures of your boat. First, you need the willingness to loose all the money you invest in it. The chances are there that the wind dies down once your equipment is 100m up in the air it will just be ditched in the water. Not willing to accept that? Then don´t do it! Otherwise you need a kite next. I use a Sutton flowform single line kite for that. You also need a bracket to fix the camera to. This usually has a pivacet system installed. This contains 4 smal pulleys and a piece of rope and is a masterpiece of efficiency. It makes sure that the angle of the camera is kept independent of the angle the line has. As a digital camera take a cheap one with wide angle lens and important: An integrated intervall timer! This you can set to 5 seconds and then the camera will click a snap every 5 seconds. With a 8GB SD card this gives you plenty of pictures and maybe 1% is good :-) I use a Ricoh Caplio 6 ...

To Helmut and Sylvia from the catamaran Onotoa. Check their blog at: http://onotoa.blogspot.com They were our "land crew" for the trip and we were emailing on a daily basis. They were the ones updating our blog and i am really happy about that. Looking forward to meet them in person!

When the first boat which approached you a night is a rastaman saying hi and when the boat passes by you smell Marihuana. Also when the customs office plays loud reggae music and the "officials" all come a little late but are friendly and quick in stamping the papers. When the most important transportation is a rubber inflatable boat and you have several dinghy docks, even at super markets or restaurants. When Lani needs to learn to walk again if the ground is not moving and is again happy to collect stones and flowers. On the to-do list now: -Get a bigger outboar engine -Get a BBQ grill for the boat -Go to the beach Life is good! RELAX!