Map of the Pages on this site

  • Home - Maperl.com
    • Art - Watercolors by artist Ben Smith
    • Writing - Many times started, never finished novel of adventure and intrigue in Haiti
    • Boat - Details of the design and layout on Mother of Perl.
      • Design - The many pages that describe the design of the boat Mother of Perl.
        • Hull - A description of Mother of Perl's hull design, the history the hull shape and where the line were drawn
        • Deck - A description (with illustration) of the deck layout
        • Interior - A description (with illustrations) of the cabin space
      • Specs - The final specifications of Mother of Perl -- dimensions, hardware, etc.
        • Hull - The dimensions and makeup of the hull
        • Sails - The dimensions and type of sail
        • Engine - The model and specifications of the auxilary engine
        • Instruments - The navigation instrument on board
        • Interior - The materials of the interior
      • Building - The journal of the construction of Mother of Perl.
      • Future - Mother of Perl's new owners rename and refit her
      • Log - A log of the building and travels of the Smith Forbes family
        • 1998 - Construction of S/V Mother of Perl
        • 1999 - We leave the USA, go Estonia, winter in Islas Canaria
          • FirstSail - The voyage to Vastervik, Sweden for rigging and sail
        • 2000 - Separated again
          • Hamburg - Ben's trip with German crew from Hamburg to Amsterdam in the Autumn of 2000
          • England - We make it through the Netherlands and across the English Channel
          • GoingSouth - With an internation crew of 4, Mother of Perl makes her way from Falmouth to the Canary Islands in October 2000
          • AtlanticCrossing - Mother of Perl joins ARC (Atlantic Rally Crossing) and makes the passage from Gran Canaria to St. Lucia, West Indies.
        • 2001 - Living in St. Lucia
        • 2002 - North to the Virgin Island
    • Photos - Photographs of our Journeys with Mother of Perl
      • Boat - Photographs of Mother of Perl
        • Building - Photographs of the process of construction of Mother of Perl
        • New - An album of recent photographs after her hull was repainted blue
        • Home - An album of photographs of the interior
      • Estonia - Several albums of the different places in Estonia where we have spent time
        • Tallinn - An album of photographs taken and around Tallinn
        • Saaremaa - Photographs of the Estonian island of Saaremaa
          • Bug - Some moths and a spider
        • J.Hendrika - Photographs aboard the Johanna Hendrika, the Netherlander sailing ship that we chartered in the summer of 1999 to sail in Western islands of Estonia
        • Kihnu - Photographs of the serene and rustic Estonian island of Kihnu
        • Parnu - Photographs (mostly of the colorful doors) of the historic Estonian resort town of Parnu
          • Door - Photographs of the colorful doors of the resort city of Parnu
      • Tenerife - An album of images of the Canarian island of Tenerife
        • Teide - An album of images of the Tenerife dormant volcano
        • Orotava - An album of images of the romantical Tenerife town of Orotava
        • Anaga - An album of images of remote scenic valleys of the Anaga Mountains on the island of Tenerife
        • Guimar - An album of images of the historic park at the pyramids of Guimar. Much of this park is devoted to anthropological theories of Thor Heyerdahl.
        • Xmas99 - Photographs of what our Christmas (December 25, 1999) and New Year (December 31, 1999) were like.
        • KingsDay99 - Photographs of the Spanish Christmas gift day as celebrated in the Canarian town of Garachico
        • Castillo - Photographs of Thomas's birthday entertainment
        • Thoma - Photographs of Thomas and his friend
      • Caribbean - Photographs of Mother of Perl sojourn in the Caribbean
        • St.Lucia - The first island we landed on after crossing the Atlantic. We made repairs, and repainted here
        • Bequia - The northernmost island of the Grenadines and a mecca for sailor
        • Virgin - The most popular Caribbean islands for sailing, snorkeling and family fun
        • TrellisBay - Our favorite place in the British Virgin Island. The best liveaboard community in all of the Caribbean
    • Videos - Videos of and about Mother of Perl
    • Hydrography - Hydrographic Surveying with s/v Mother of Perl
        • nmea2xyzt - Perl code for generating xyzt table from NMEA stream
        • NMEAfields - Manual for NMEAfields Perl Module
        • Datalogger - A Perl daemon for logging TCP, UDP, and serial streams of line delimited data
          • Source - Source code for NMEAfields Perl Module
      • Cleaning - Data Cleaning Tool
        • BandPass - A Perl script to clean xyzt data
      • Analysis - Preparation for Gridding and Plotting
        • Stats - Perl for basic statistics on XYZT data table
        • Smooth - A forward looking smoothing program for XYZT data table
      • GridPlot - Gridding and Plotting with GMT
        • bp - A Perl script for quick plots from xyzt data table -- it is an front end to GMT
    • Blog - Captain Ben's Blog
      • Plans - Plans for Mother of Perl
      • Sail - Sailing stories from Mother of Perl
      • Family - Family events of Smith, Forbes, and Nace
      • Projects - Notes from various CCOM projects that Ben is working on
      • Tech - Anythin techie
    • SAACalendar -