Christian Allaire's Sailing Life

COME WITH ME ABOARD S/V CHRISTA FOR A RIDE AROUND THE BLUE PLANET STARTING SEPTEMBER 2007

30 December 2010 | San Francisco Bay Area
28 April 2010 | Naples Florida
08 January 2010 | Naples Florida
10 November 2009 | St Thomas USVI
25 October 2009 | Grenada
18 September 2009
01 July 2009 | St Davids, South Coast of Grenada
16 May 2009
12 May 2009
06 May 2009 | Bequia
29 April 2009 | Bequia
22 April 2009 | Bequia
17 April 2009
12 April 2009 | Marigot Bay St Lucia
10 April 2009 | Rodney Bay St Lucia
03 April 2009 | Rodney Bay St Lucia
02 April 2009 | Rodney Bay St Lucia

Google Earth

23 June 2008 | Salinas Puerto Rico
Capt Chris, weather is what you'd suspect in El Carib
I highly encourage all hands to download the Google Earth program. I extracted the image above from Google Earth where my progress is being tracked. Each yellow square denotes a blog entry from the past. It is a great way for people who just stumbled upon my blog to get up to speed rapidly in terms of the where's and what have you's. Just like in XPLOT, you can click on the yellow square and up pops the blog entry for that position. Very cool. You can download Google Earth by clicking on the link under "Favorites" to the right.

So to access the blog via Google Earth click on the Current Position Map link. The XPLOT map then loads. At the bottom of the page you'll see the Google Earth tab, click on it. A dialog box should pop up asking to load the "KML" file using Google Earth. Once you click "Ok" your computer should automatically load the already downloaded Google Earth Program. Once the earth pops up within the Google Earth program, you may have to rotate the globe to the Caribbean, where you will see the image above.

Please let me know what you guys think about this process and the whole Google Earth angle.

Thanks!

Capt Chris

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Vessel Name: Christa
Vessel Make/Model: 1975 Westsail 32
Hailing Port: San Francisco
Crew: Christian Allaire
About: Single Handed Sailor
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I left Newport Rhode Island in September of 2007 aboard Christa, my Westsail32 bound for the worlds oceans. I spent the months of Sep-Dec 2007 sailing down the US east coast. In December of 2007 I made the jump to the Bahamas. February 2008 found me in Luperon Dominican Republic. After [...]

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Who: Christian Allaire
Port: San Francisco