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I would like to repost here something I posted a while ago in
uk.rec.sailing. Sorry if you have to see it second time. Since then the
site in question has grown significantly and, I would hope, can already
be helpful in certain areas (mostly UK and nearabout).
Here it is:

Greetings, everybody!

Recently, I came back from a bareboat charter in Greece - and was
immediately plunged into the daily chores. It is hard to stare 9+ hours
a day into a computer screen, when all you see before your eyes are
sails and the sea. The only cure I know is to start planning the next
vacation. And once again I was reminded of just how sparse and
unsystemized is the information available on the Internet for someone
who would like to plan a passage in an unknown country (except for
Greece and Turkey, thanks to Diederik Willemsen's SailingIssues.com).
Surely, you can spend a small fortune on a pilot book of every sea you
would ever want to visit, but even that is not a perfect solution -
pilot books tend to get outdated even before they leave the printing
press.

And then I was struck with an idea - a Wiki-based pilot book! If every
10th sailor will report of the current state of things in the marinas
he's visited, then we'll have the best pilot book there ever was.
Fortunately, before I got carried too far away with this idea, a friend
sent me a link to a newly opened site - that does just that! Hence, I
dropped whatever fiddling I did with a wiki, and moved to that site -
and I would love to see more people join there, so that I have more
info for my next vacation.

And the site is: http://www.skipper2skipper.com/

Here are a couple of examples of articles I contributed so far:

http://skipper2skipper.com/wiki/Israel:Herzliya (That's my home marina)
http://skipper2skipper.com/wiki/Navplion

Hey, if you register there - drop me a line at
http://skipper2skipper.com/wiki/User_talk:Dimrub - I am curious about
whether anyone joins after my call to arms :).