I have been using Nobeltec Visual Navigation Suite regularly since first acquiring it at the Annapolis Boat Show in 2000 and now need to update from version 7 to the new version 9 so I can run my AIS system in the same window.
I started dinghy-sailing & windsurfing in the UK in 1990 & first sailed a yacht in 1994 on a Competent Crew course, eventually getting my RYA Ocean Yachtmaster in 2000 after crossing the Atlantic in 1999 on "Nereida" with my husband.
I have been using Nobeltec Visual Navigation Suite regularly since first acquiring it at the Annapolis Boat Show in 2000 and now need to update from version 7 to the new version 9 so I can run my AIS system in the same window.
I started dinghy-sailing & windsurfing in the UK in 1990 & first sailed a yacht in 1994 on a Competent Crew course, eventually getting my RYA Ocean Yachtmaster in 2000 after crossing the Atlantic in 1999 on "Nereida" with my husband.
This year, I did the Single-handed TransPac race to Hawaii - which started from San Francisco on 24th June and took me 20.5 days (including 3 days becalmed soon after the start!) and from there sailed solo up to Alaska (22days, arr. 15th Aug) & on down via the west coast of Vancouver Island & Cape Flattery back to San Francisco.
The SHTP race website is:
www.sfbaysss.org/TransPac/transpac2006 - you can see my daily race logs posted in the Reports/Logs section.
www.shiptrak.org (- KC2IOV) shows some of my solo sailing path over the last three years.
I have spent nine years cruising on board "Nereida": from the Najad yard in Sweden in July '97 to England, to France/Spain/Portugal in '98, the Caribbean and East coast of North & Central America from '99-'04, then the West coast of North America (SE Alaska to B.C. to California to Mexico & back) up to now.
I now feel I am ready to circumnavigate single-handed - hoping to sail around rather more quickly than to date. Most sailors have this wish, and (at 64) I feel I should do so now while I am still relatively fit! I have enjoyed my solo sailing so far and have made many friends in my travels. Many enjoy my 'tales of adventure', living a sailing life vicariously through my emails & newsletters and I have attracted a lot of attention as I sail around - not many women doing what I have done, I gather!
My Najad 361 and its instruments & other equipment, including my use of Nobeltec software for charting, also get a lot of interested comments from people I meet - it is good advertising for the Nobeltec software I use when these people see a successful use of it on board "Nereida.”
Regards,
Jeanne Socrates
"Nereida"
Marina del Rey, CA, USA