We were at the London Boat Show on Saturday looking for a few more of the items that we need before our departure. The London show has shrunk considerably over the last few years and if you want to look at sailing boats you really need to go to the Southampton show - but happily we are no longer looking for a boat and it is still quite a useful place to go if you want to look at and compare equipment. We were looking for a Tilley hat (as a belated Christmas present) for Jan and an EPIRB and a Wi-fi booster for Viridian.
We had a successful day, buying Jan's hat and the other two slightly less critical items - an EPIRB (hopefully we won't need it!) and a Wi-fi extender and router. If all works well we should now be able to keep in contact with everyone via the internet and if we run into serious trouble the EPIRB will allow us to send out an alert.
The choice of wi-fi system was quite tricky but eventually we decided on the MailASail WifiBat booster and their RedBox router. Having decent access to the internet is going to be pretty important for us and these products have had good reviews. The RedBox can accept Wi-fi; or 4G; or an Iridium phone, so hopefully should be perfect for us. I've also heard anecdotally that MailASail provide very good service - I will let you know how they perform.
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