A Warm Welcome!
Welcome to my blog. The site is fairly new – a year or so old – and is an extension of my yacht delivery business – Parks Marine Services.
My goal is to provide a more personal and entertaining way of sharing our passages with my client’s family and friends, while also allowing you to travel vicariously along with us. If you are a potential customer, take a moment to browse the site, sample a few pages to get a feel for life offshore, and then contact us for more information. You can also check out our Client’s Corner to see what my customers have to say about their experiences. If you’re just stopping by as a reader, enjoy your stay and perhaps recommend us to someone who could use our services.
In addition to providing offshore yacht deliveries – both power and sail – we also offer opportunities for offshore training on many of the yachts we deliver. So, if you are thinking about ways to expand your skills with an offshore passage, even if you don’t own a boat, contact us for more details.
Most of these blogs are emails sent home to family and friends while underway on offshore yacht deliveries. But, they aren’t necessarily like the emails you’re used to getting; they are more like a story told from the boat’s cockpit each evening while at sea. Each delivery – or adventure – will consist of multiple posts all sorted under a single category. The categories – listed down the right side of this page – are also indexed with a date reference for easy sorting. For example, “0801″ indicates 2008 January (01) and ”0802″ is 2008 February.
If you’d like to post comments on my BlogPosts, you will need to “Register” first, I’m only asking your name and email address. You will get an email with your temporary password (long and obscure temp passwords, so recommend you cut and paste it to prevent errors) – use this to log in and create your own password. Once registered as a Subscriber to this Blog, you will be able to comment on the posts – but only after I approve and publish them.
This site is also suitable for direct RSS feeds to your email or browser. With so many different email and browser applications, I will leave the details of ‘how to’ for you to determine. If you do a simple internet search for RSS and your software, you’re sure to get multiple sites that give you a step-by-step procedure for setting up these automatic updates. Once set up, you will get automatic feeds each time we post from sea.
And while the blog is an extension of my professional business, it is also a very personal account of these adventures since I am both the Captain and the author for these entries. If you’d like to know more about the author, then be sure to check out my ‘About the Captain…‘ page.
Enjoy your visit!
Cap’n Blaine
