On Jun 10, 4:00 pm, "Road Rage!" wrote:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0609124551.htm

Another ice age cometh?

Uhm, this is news? We're at the bottom of the cycle and things are
calm... If they still haven't picked up in five years or so that will
be news. 'Till then it's like reporting the continuing lack of
daylight during the night.

Only link to cruising I can see is HF propagation. When I did my last
passage it seemed a bit lacking, but the big guns were still getting
through. Are folks having problems with this (maybe moving to Iridium
or something)? Sorry, just a desperate stab to get on topic...

-- Tom.