Posting your comments

 An open comments page has proved unpractical (see below)

 So please email your updates to me at: Sailorsguide@hotmail.com (click on the address to activate email). 

IMPORTANT: In the subject line write: update, then the port or area you are writing about.

This way I will know the email you are sending is not junk mail, and that you intend it for posting on the Your Comments page.

End you message with your name, boat name, nickname or whatever you would like to be posted.  

I will post your email on the  Your Comments page, usually daily in the summer, and as often as possible (but generally more than once a week) when I am cruising. 

You email address and any other information in the address bar will be deleted when I post your contribution - it will not be posted or used for any other purpose.

Thank you for your input, Chris

Why I am changing the format of Your comments Page.

I love the idea of an open active comments page, and for a couple of years I have tried to this. Unfortunately it has proved unpractical because it  constantly gets filled with junk. This junk comes in the form of pages of unwanted links. (I have never received an unwanted post from a cruiser) At first I thought this was some web masters trying to increase their profile. But I contacted some of the sites involved, and also looked at the variety of sites and came to the conclusion that is was far more bizarre. A few people seem to have been infected with a meme that makes them want to replicate sites for no other reason than replication.  Strangely enough I had just become interested in the  theory of  memetics and if anything fits, this does! On the other hand they may just get off by making other people close open web pages down. In which case I have to grant them success. Who know or cares? I presume they have a computer programmed to help them, like a minor irritant computer virus - if not they were prepared to spend many hours at this task. I am not willing to spend similar time deleting their posts.

So to stop this site being a completely open replicating machine I have to use the email route (above) which will help me sort out the junk from the messages and also keep the junk off the comment page. (some of you may have seen some of it between my cleaning sessions)

Thank you for your input, and I apologize for not being able to have a completely open page. Chris