For all of you out there who have too much email junk in your inbox now is your chance to have even more!!!!!

You too can be one of the lucky few who subscribe to the Foolish Newsletter. This is an exclulsive club only open to people who can type their email address into the entry form. Are YOU up to the challenge?

There is a subscription that is seperate for each blog; Journal, Travelogue, Sealog, News, and the soon to be Saoirse Matters, Taniwha Construction, and Photo Blog. Each subsection of the website will have a subscription for for that blog. To subscribe to each one go to that section (i.e. Journal or Sealog on the nav bar on the left).

The subscription form on the Home page is for the Journal.

Here is a sort description of what the different blogs will be so you can see if you really want all the foolish spam coming your way.

News: This is about the updates to the design of the website and not news about us and travels. This will let you all know about when updates, improvements or bug spray has been applied to the growing monstrosity that is foolishSailor

Journal: This is exactly what it says on the tin. If it doesnt fit in the other categories it goes here. This could be rants, raves, general anything. It is straight from our mind to yours on the sometimes boring, sometimes less boring day to day experiences of our trip.

Travelogue: This will be a broad category that contains our experiences related to our travels. At the moment it is empty but once we get on the move this will be filled with entries of our epxeriences with people and places. This blog will also be tied directly to the photo blog containing pictures of our travels associated with each entry.

Sealog: This is for all you poeple like me who are sailing nerds. Using an RSS feed (non-nerd speak = small text feed that autoupdates files) that is attached to our weather file requests the website will be auto-updated with our daily log summaries every time we request and download a weather file. Roughly every 48 hours. You will have to bear with me on this one - this is the most technically challenging aspect of the site but potentially the most rewarding. The map will be updated with our GPS position and show the weather info as well as the blog. Each entry will have all the information that would be in a normal ships log; Wind speed and direction, Wave height and direction, Current Speed and Direction, Boat position, Boat Speed, Boat Course, Barometer, etc. All of this is automatically generated by an integrated weather system on the boat and sent through the ether to magically appear on this site. Ummm, yea - wish me luck on this one.

Saoirse Matters: Covers the wonder and excitement and trials and tribulations of sailing around the world with an infant. This will be more forum based depending on the level of contribution of family, friends and other viewers who get involved. We hope to include everything from requests for advice, to baby recipes for food, and any experience related to Saoirse and being her parents.

Taniwha Construction: Again, does what it says on the tin. Showing the build process of Taniwha.

Photo Blog: This will be the blog hosting all the pictures with descriptions and integrated to relevant blog entries or categories

We are trying to develop a website that strongly encourages involvement and community by providing rich content and creating a space where all of you can not only interact with us but each other. We love receiving comments and that aspect of the site is the one next on the chopping block for a radical improvement.

The future holds:
1. Remaining blogs to be developed
2. Create the ability for people beside us to post entries and photos
3. Allow commenters to respond to each other and for us to respond to comments