Phones & The Internet
I include myself in the group that has had less than brilliant success using
a cell phone and trying to retrieve e-mail. My plan is to have a land-line
connection in my boat. Many marinas have a phone hook-up at the dock. I have
a phone jack in the second cabin and plan on connecting to the local
land-line and using a service such as AOL with local access numbers (most
areas) get online and retrieve my mail. This will be a local call (no long
distance). I realize this does not address anchoring or being in marinas
with no phone hook-up but it's an alternative that should help until the
technology improves.
David Potipcoe
DragonWyck (KK42)
dpotipcoe@home.com
On Thu, 04 Mar 1999 08:37:17 -0500 "David Potipcoe" dpotipcoe@home.com
writes:
at. Many marinas have a phone hook-up at the dock.
How many Marinas have phone lines for transients. I don't want to be
involved in an installation fee from a phone company for a short stay. Do
some marinas have switch board service or direct connect?
John
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At 11:33 PM 3/4/99 EST, you wrote:
On Thu, 04 Mar 1999 08:37:17 -0500 "David Potipcoe" dpotipcoe@home.com
writes:
at. Many marinas have a phone hook-up at the dock.
How many Marinas have phone lines for transients. I don't want to be
involved in an installation fee from a phone company for a short stay. Do
some marinas have switch board service or direct connect?
John
Arild writes
Many of the slips in our marina have both cable TV and phone lines
permanently wired.
Whe people go for their annual summer cruise the marina rents out their
slip to transients and credits part of the money to the normal slip
occupant. The phone hook-up would be available on the same basis. We
have a regular telephone trunk cable feeding the slips via a main
terminal board. Switching is done by the telephone central office half
a mile away.
Since all the Ontario central offices are now solid state switches;
changing numbers and terminals only takes a couple of minutes work at a
keyboard. David and my marina are both located in the same general area
codes so that service is fairly common herabouts.
Last summer on the way to St. Agustine, we stopped at four or five
marinas..anytime I wanted to use the phone they let me... a couple had a
dedicated line for computers, others just let me work through the desk phone
second line... most had more than one line installed. Just ask... I found
most people very understanding. I also talked to management at these places
suggesting the create a line for computer use... some have... Palm Harbor in
WPB is one, Titusville City Marinia is another. In St. Augustine they let
me use the office phone. Was not that hard....However, I would suggest the
more people that ask the more response we will get.... so everyone, another
call to action... start asking for computer lines!!!!!!!! If enough people
ask then they will come.
Bob
Fantail 50 Hull#4
Marguerite
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On Thu, 04 Mar 1999 08:37:17 -0500 "David Potipcoe" dpotipcoe@home.com
writes:
at. Many marinas have a phone hook-up at the dock.
How many Marinas have phone lines for transients. I don't want to be
involved in an installation fee from a phone company for a short stay. Do
some marinas have switch board service or direct connect?
John
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We, too, have had reasonable success asking the folks at the marina office
to use their fax line in order to get e-mail. However, once when docked at
a marina in Gorge Harbour, Canada, the marina manager snapped, "When we
cruised, we didn't have need to use computers and e-mail. We wanted to get
away from it all." Well, she relented (after all, I had just payed the
moorage charge) and I downloaded. I didn't tell her that we also carried a
satellite TV dish and were "never away."
Bob Miller
M/V Loon Song
Semiahmoo, WA
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Subject: RE: Phones & The Internet
Last summer on the way to St. Agustine, we stopped at four or five
marinas..anytime I wanted to use the phone they let me... a couple had a
dedicated line for computers, others just let me work through the desk phone
second line... most had more than one line installed. Just ask... I found
most people very understanding. I also talked to management at these places
suggesting the create a line for computer use... some have... Palm Harbor in
WPB is one, Titusville City Marinia is another. In St. Augustine they let
me use the office phone. Was not that hard....However, I would suggest the
more people that ask the more response we will get.... so everyone, another
call to action... start asking for computer lines!!!!!!!! If enough people
ask then they will come.
Bob
Fantail 50 Hull#4
Marguerite
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huckleberry10@juno.com
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 1999 11:34 PM
To: Trawler-World-List@samurai.com
Subject: Re: Phones & The Internet
On Thu, 04 Mar 1999 08:37:17 -0500 "David Potipcoe" dpotipcoe@home.com
writes:
at. Many marinas have a phone hook-up at the dock.
How many Marinas have phone lines for transients. I don't want to be
involved in an installation fee from a phone company for a short stay. Do
some marinas have switch board service or direct connect?
John
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