I spotted a cute little boat, with a certain familiar little bear on the side, on the Llangollen over Christmas. An idle web search last week for my own domain turned up a surprise - the owners of NB Nutwood, whose emblem is the same little white bear, started a blog last month. That makes five of us boating bloggers in total. Five I know about, anyway. And I only found them because - che adulazione! - www.grannybuttons.com was the only link on their blogroll.
Unfortunately NB Nutwood's blog hasn't so far got beyond two entries. I hope they continue it. I know how hard it is to get in the habit of posting regularly.
Incidentally, they set it up with Wordpress, a weblog system I hadn't heard of before. Wordpress promises some neat little facilities, and appears to be free to use, although it's not a hosting service as such. You'll need to find someone to do it for you, and a place to put the blog, and you'll probably have to pay for that.
But examining my photos of last year suggests that I'm confusing boats here. The one I photographed near Ellesmere was Rupert, not Nutwood. I'm sure you can see how the confusion arose.
Hadar not "Hardan"! I'm useless with a keyboard unless it has black and white keys! I see they have a link on your site already.
Posted by: eeyore49 | Wednesday, 09 May 2007 at 10:19 PM
Have you spotted my blog yet?
It's SONFLOWERSLOG on Blogspot. There are loads about. I had a mail from Hardan a brand new working boat with its own blog. It seems like more and more of us are getting started now.
Posted by: eeyore49 | Wednesday, 09 May 2007 at 10:13 PM
There we go, a great free offer for boaters wondering when to blog! I reckon Sneckifter (www.snecklifter.com) is the best of us all, and they only need to shift the format to a true weblog system. Tim suggests Wordpress (with his help). I'm happy with Typepad. I suspect beginners might prefer www.blogger.com.
Posted by: Andrew Denny | Tuesday, 17 August 2004 at 11:24 PM
In my parents defence (Nutwood is their boat) the whole Interweb-thingy is something of a steep learning curve, not helped by a dodgy O2 GPRS service and the fact that their tech support (i.e. me!) is on dry land...
Hopefully once they've got to grips with email etc the blog will get updated regularly - I know they keep a 'ship's log', so hopefully the blogging discipline should be easy yo come by. I'm always suprised that more boats don't blog - it's the perfect way of keeping land-dwellers up to speed with where you are and what you're doing.
Wordpress is an excellent package if you're ready to move on from a hosted service - and not too difficult to set up. Although I'll happily help out for nothing if there are any boaters needing a hand!
Posted by: Tim | Tuesday, 17 August 2004 at 09:47 PM