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Jon tuning the radio to send email

This section is a collection of the newsletters we've sent out by email from Ocelot while we've been cruising the Indian Ocean.

As these were originally sent out via our low-bandwidth radio email system, they're usually pretty short.  But we wanted to preserve them as they really reflect our at-the-moment impressions of where we've been and what we've seen and done and, most importantly, what we felt and thought.

When they were originally sent by email, these newsletters were just plain text.  By putting these letters on the website we've been able to add photos -- so check them out!  Clicking on a photo will yield a larger and more detailed version of that photo.

If you'd like to be added to our newsletter mailing list and get these sent to you directly, feel free to sign up.  Our list is as private as we can make it, never shared with anyone, and you can take yourself off the list or change your subscription to a new address whenever you want just by clicking this link.

Our newsletters from the Pacific Ocean, as well as those from the Indian Ocean, are arranged by the destination we were sailing to at the time.  The first few newsletters for a given destination are often "passage notes" that were sent out while we were on passage to that destination, but they also include those newsletters that we sent out once we'd arrived.

For example, our Indonesia collection begins with our 4-day passage from Darwin to Kupang and then continues with 5 more newsletters that we sent out as we cruised through this 3,500-mile-wide Muslim country past venting volcanoes and wonderful dancing and diving.

Ocelot with her mini-spinnaker sailing through Indonesia

Our Malaysia and Thailand newsletters include sailing up the (formerly pirate infested) Malacca Straits, cruising the Phuket area, and our inland tour of Thailand.

Our Sri Lanka newsletters document our delightful passage from Malaysia to Sri Lanka as well as our wonderful tour of the Sri Lankan interior.

Our Maldives section contains several letters that are published here for the first time.  They were sent but never received (a day in the life of Ocelot on passage, returning to the Southern Hemisphere, etc.) as our email-forwarding list-server was misbehaving at the time.  Most of them are passage notes from our trip there, but we also wrote some newsletters while we were enjoying the Maldives.

Our 2 months in the Chagos Archipelago, just 300nm south of the Maldives, were pure heaven.  We only sent a single passage note when we arrived and another newsletter explaining how we'd found paradise.

Most of these letters were written by Jon, but everyone took a hand in them at one time or another.  If you want to know who wrote an individual letter, usually it's the first name at the bottom.

Enjoy!

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