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Website online and public
Finally I transferred my website to an Italian host.
I still have a lot of work but hope to open the index page in a few days so I can start posting photos, videos and news.
EDIT: OK so far so good, I enabled the index page so the website is now public. The crawlers and robots can do their work indexing the pages, even if I still need to optimize a lot of things on that part..
Still a lot of stuff to sort out: translations, date issues, cross browser (...)
Work contract and residence in Italy
Last week I signed a work contract in the costguard office in Portofino. My last regular full time job was in 2000 for North Sails Belgium, with the exception of working for "SailMaxiOne" in 2005. (which went bankrupt a few months after I started working there)
It's been a long way over the last couple of years in Italy. A lot of patience indeed. Gaining trust with people, taking chances, trying and learning. Efforts in my relationship too. But I made the right choices and now (...)
It's been a long way over the last couple of years in Italy. A lot of patience indeed. Gaining trust with people, taking chances, trying and learning. Efforts in my relationship too. But I made the right choices and now (...)
Job on Atalanta II
Just 2 days before I was going to start working on "Il Moro di Venezia" her owner turned me down because of a crew change on another yacht. Not very gentleman..
So there was a job opportunity on that yacht, "Capricorno", which broke the record during the last ARC, but that would have been taking me away from my objectives, living and racing in Italy. I would have to leave my girlfriend as the boat has a 4 year around (...)
So there was a job opportunity on that yacht, "Capricorno", which broke the record during the last ARC, but that would have been taking me away from my objectives, living and racing in Italy. I would have to leave my girlfriend as the boat has a 4 year around (...)
Maximus dismasted, 5 crew taken off
Three crew from the New Zealand maxi Maximus have been airlifted to Moruya Hospital for medical attention after the mast on the 30 metre maxi fell in the early hours of this morning.
Five of the 23 crew aboard Maximus sustained more serious injuries when allegedly the forestay fitting let go, sending the mast crashing back on the deck at approximately 0300am this morning according to one of the injured crewman, Ian Treleaven.
It must have been the forestay fitting at (...)
Five of the 23 crew aboard Maximus sustained more serious injuries when allegedly the forestay fitting let go, sending the mast crashing back on the deck at approximately 0300am this morning according to one of the injured crewman, Ian Treleaven.
It must have been the forestay fitting at (...)
