Winlink limits attachment sizes to 50K normally. Not sure what
Sailmail's policy is now.

Doug
s/v Callista

"Dick" wrote in message
...
I'm a writer by trade and my cruising life will be greatly facilitated
if in five years' time I can send and receive e-mail at a reasonable
cost, say, between 45 N and 45 S.

Weatherfax and SSB will do for me otherwise. The TV stays at home.


A lot of cruisers use SSB to send email now. It is great not to have to
come to
town to use the email. How it would work on large documents I do not know.
But
it may be worth looking in to.

Dick

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:44:44 -0500, "Doug Dotson"
wrote:

Winlink limits attachment sizes to 50K normally. Not sure what
Sailmail's policy is now.

If you stick to basics like RTF files, 50K can be several pages of
"plain text". There is the option to send sequential attachments, too.
The problem would be if I were to do design work offshore. Such files
are prohibitively huge.

Another issue is sending pictures or audio back home to relatives...I
think that has to wait for a port.

So far. Things change fast. My club installed wireless access last
year and now I can get weather radar on board before I leave...which
is cool as I am near an airport and they have very good local wind
data.

R.