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Jeanne Socrates has been sailing single-handed for about five years now on her yacht "Nereida", a Najad 361. She is currently 12 months into her first solo circumnavigation, having left Mexico in March of last year. Jeanne has now rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and is sailing north along the African continent, before heading across the Atlantic ocean to Trinidad.

You won't find Graybeard Cove marked as such on many charts – maybe three, tops. It's one of those secret anchorages of the Inside Passage that you either have to find on your own, or pry from what Sailing Directions always refer to as “local knowledge.” My Local was a Canadian cruising friend who is always looking for a quiet spot away from the “damned Americans.” He, by the way, was born in Walnut Creek, CA...

First off, there is no tin can involved. I started calling it “tin-can” because it was so simple it reminded me of two tin-cans on a string, but you will need neither the cans nor the string. What you will need are a computer, a piece of software (free to try), a shortwave radio with SSB, and a cable to connect the radio to the computer.