Comments on: A Few Things for Airship

By: Kevin McLaughlin

Kevin McLaughlin — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 17:56:00 +0000

Looks so large an area, and it is, but a mercator map would render that area a little more to scale. I see you are cruising west from Port Townsend now, wonder what your next blog entry will reveal?

By: Laura Domela

Laura Domela — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 15:41:00 +0000

In reply to Sadler Love.

Sadler and Beth! Congratulations on your NT37!! – and thank you so much for your note. I’m flattered, and we’re so happy to help accelerate your cruising plans! 🙂 We are just in love with this boating thing. I can’t believe we didn’t think of it sooner.

Definitely keep in touch, and we’d love to meet you guys when you get to Portland and the PNW. And thanks for the Pinterest tip…I’m following along with you guys too now!

By: Laura Domela

Laura Domela — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 15:34:00 +0000

In reply to Steve Price. HI Steve! Thank you, and we'll keep a lookout for you guys! We'll be leaving Ketchikan around June 13 and heading to Juneau to meet some friends arriving on June 20th. After that, we'll be cruising around between Juneau and Sitka until July 3 or so. Are you guys on AIS? It'd be fun to meet up!

By: Laura Domela

Laura Domela — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 15:34:00 +0000

In reply to Joanne. Thanks Joanne! We are too! :)

By: Sadler Love

Sadler Love — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 13:55:00 +0000

That’s going to be a fantastic trip. Best of luck to you and Kevin!

Here’s a plug for your blog Laura: My wife and I have enjoyed reading your blog since you got Airship, and your great descriptions and photos have played a big role in our decision to accelerate our own cruising plans. Last week, we closed on a NT37! We live in NC, but have cruised the southeast ICW for 15 years in a much smaller 30′ express cruiser, with Charleston, SC as our homeport. We’ll cruise the NT on the East coast for several years, but have big plans to truck it or cruise it to the PNW to join our daughter and her family who live in Portland. So, we will be watching with great interest as you and Kevin head north to Alaska. By the way, you might want to check out my wife’s Pinterest page (“Our Tug”)–you’ll recognize some of the things as your own ideas that we plan to use on our own Nordic Tug, Egret. Thanks for all the work you do on the blog–maybe we’ll meet up one day. –Sadler
broker pic of boat (name will change):

By: Joanne

Joanne — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 01:57:00 +0000

Whoa, that really puts it in perspective. I am psyched about your trip and can’t wait to follow along!

By: Steve Price

Steve Price — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 17:23:00 +0000

Hi Kevin and Laura!
I have enjoyed reading your blog. Keep up the good work. Your Alaska trip will be lots of fun. Hope to see you along the way. I will be co-Captain for a buddy of mine who is a delivery skipper. We leave Seattle on June 10th and need to have the boat in Sitka by June18th. Long days in a 10kt boat. Our vessel is named “Inside Passage” a 70′ custom Cooper/Queenship. If you see us anchored, give a call and stop by for a drink!
Travel safe :))

By: Michael Fortson

Michael Fortson — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 21:15:00 +0000

In reply to Kevin Morris.

We’ve had good luck with T-Mobile’s unlimited worldwide data over the last year and a half, using it throughout Ontario & Quebec as well as in Amsterdam, Reykjavik, Rome, and Bologna (and points between).

It used to be super fast when it was first introduced (before their international partners started actually doing the advertised throttling), but now it can be pretty slow unless you pay to upgrade the speeds (we haven’t bothered yet, but they haven’t been working trips either — ymmv).

By: Kevin Morris

Kevin Morris — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 18:53:00 +0000

Hi Rod,

The Moovbox will definitely work for some of it. The question is … how much? We got a T-mobile unlimited data plan for one SIM card – that also supposedly includes data roaming in Mexico and Canada. On our brief trip to Canada before, it seemed to work. We also got a Canada/Mexico data plan for our Verizon SIM card that is basically $10 per 100MB. Not cheap, but way cheaper than the alternatives we found. We’ll have both of those, as well as an AT&T card loaded into the Moovbox. So, anyplace that the Moovbox can get Verizon, T-mobile, or AT&T or their Canada partners, we should have internet. Plus, some marinas have WiFi. Finally, we have a very good team that can cover for us if we’re out of touch for a few days at a time here and there.

Really, though, we have no idea. We’ll report back.

Or, if you don’t hear from us for awhile… you’ll probably know what the deal is.

By: rodburkert

rodburkert — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 18:17:00 +0000

VERY cool! But as someone who also works from an RV, my question is: What are you doing for internet connectivity. I’ve read about your Moovbox … will that work? Do you need a Canadian data plan while you motor up through British Columbia?