Don Pedro d'Alfaroubeira

Don Pedro d'Alfaroubeira is a sailing boat, a 42' ketch, based in the San Francisco Bay Area (Half Moon Bay).
Misc Sailing trips and various navigation techniques.

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Monitor the Boat, remotely

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With a FONA connected on the Raspberry PI (where the NMEA Console is running), you can remotely monitor what's going on. The feature h...
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Saturday, September 12, 2015

Ephemeris emails

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Along with the headless mode, you can now send ephemeris emails to whoever you want. The email you'd receive would look like this: Ep...
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

GoogleCode going out of business

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GoogleCode will close soon, I moved everything on github . For the navigation part, you can build everything for yourself from here . This...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

Version 3.0.1.5 available

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New version - for both the Weather Wizard and the Navigation Console - 3.0.1.5 is available, at the usual place. Few new features, minor ...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

Un peu de finesse, dans ce monde de brutes

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Trois poëtes, trois poëmes Ah seja como for, seja por onde for, partir! Largar por aì fora, pelas ondas, pelo perigo, pelo mar. Ir para...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Raspberry PI on board: the numbers!

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Using the Charger Doctor from Adafruit, I was able to see how much the Raspberry PI is drawing when at work. When it boots, with the 7...
Saturday, June 21, 2014

Raspberry Sailing. How the Raspberry Pi makes sense on board.

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A computer can be helpful on board, for several reasons. Some useful navigation softwares need one to run (SailMail, for example, that al...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Character Mode Console, for the Raspberry PI

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Working on low consumption setup... The laptop is quite demanding on the batteries, but the Raspberry PI is not. The thing is that the lap...
Monday, June 2, 2014

Introducing the "Archived GRIB Routing"

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The idea here is like replacing the pilot charts with some GRIBs stored in some composites you have already archived, to plan a trip for exa...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Kiting the Bay

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Warm weather in the SF Bay Area this week, the wind picks up around 3 in the afternoon, easily reaching 20 knots near Treasure Island.
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