{"id":7588,"date":"2013-10-14T15:11:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T19:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7588"},"modified":"2013-10-14T15:28:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T19:28:46","slug":"buy-a-hi-tech-sail-boat-complete-with-shortwave-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/buy-a-hi-tech-sail-boat-complete-with-shortwave-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy a hi-tech sailboat, complete with shortwave radio"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The<\/a>

The Nomadness<\/p><\/div>\n

With all of the recent posts on maritime radio<\/a>, I can’t help but jump slightly off-topic for a moment…<\/p>\n

I just learned that SWLing Post reader, Steven Roberts<\/a>, is selling his completely geeked-out sailboat: a 1987 Amazon 44 called the Nomadness<\/em>. (\u00a0Steven knows “geeked-out” is a compliment!<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Steven has put a lot of time and engineering love into the Nomadness<\/em> and has documented how he’s customized her on his popular blog, Nomadness.com<\/a>. She’s a beauty.<\/p>\n

You can read about the sale of the Nomadness on the boating blog Three Sheets Northwest<\/em><\/a>. If you live in the Pacific NW, you might check her out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With all of the recent posts on maritime radio, I can’t help but jump slightly off-topic for a moment… I just learned that SWLing Post reader, Steven Roberts, is selling his completely geeked-out sailboat: a 1987 Amazon 44 called the Nomadness. (\u00a0Steven knows “geeked-out” is a compliment!) Steven has put a lot of time and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,554,5],"tags":[2195,1667,1794],"class_list":["post-7588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-slightly-off-topic","category-swlers","tag-maritime-operation","tag-steven-roberts","tag-the-nomadness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1Yo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21585,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/datawake-stevens-new-floating-lab\/","url_meta":{"origin":7588,"position":0},"title":"Datawake: Steven’s new “floating lab”","author":"Thomas","date":"September 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post\u00a0contributor, Steven Roberts, who shares the following update: Hi, Thomas!! Thought I\u2019d send an update\u2026 I did in fact find a buyer for Nomadness, and have since gone to the Dark Side\u2026 for 8 months, I have been living aboard my Delta 50 named Datawake. 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You see, several years ago he started the process of living on his boat, The Nomadness, full-time. 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Indeed, Steven carried\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Articles"","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"N4RVE working the world from BEHEMOTH, somewhere in Wisconsin. 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Here's a short clip from his full article:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Articles"","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Zenith Model 7G605, the first in the line of Trans-Oceanic radios. Credit P. 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I also wanted to let you know your confidence in Ebay seller Anna and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "AM"","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tecsun-PL-360-e1492468269178.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tecsun-PL-360-e1492468269178.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tecsun-PL-360-e1492468269178.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tecsun-PL-360-e1492468269178.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9244,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/the-radio-new-zealand-coastal-forecast\/","url_meta":{"origin":7588,"position":5},"title":"The Radio New Zealand coastal forecast","author":"Thomas","date":"April 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"In response to my post on the BBC Shipping Forecast, SWLing Post reader Mark writes: I just read your latest blog about the BBC marine forecast. It sounds very similar to the RNZ coastal forecast.....but they also have a mountain forecast! http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/news\/weather\/coastal Broadcast times Short: with hourly news bulletins Regional:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Articles"","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"(Source: stuff.co.nz)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NZ-weather_map.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}