First post from Xtraordinary

[Xtraordinary]

Hello everybody,

This is my first post since I became a member last week. My name is Peter Goedendorp (from Holland) and together with my wife Jeanine I own a 48 ft X-Yacht,named Xtraordinary.
In 2005 we sailed her from Holland to Palma de Mallorca and last summer (April-October) we sailed to Greece, Albania, Kroatia, Italy and back to Palma de Mallorca. This April we will slowly go to the Canaries in orde to cross the Atlantic in December. I found your site when I was looking for another anchor. We have a 20 kg. Bruce ss with 70 mtrs. chain but were never happy with it. Last week I ordered a Manson 27 kg galvanized anchor in the UK and I hope I will have it next week and that we will be happy with it.
Can somebody mention a site with info about SSB, I just bought a new one but would love to get some tips/info.

Hope to hear from somebody.

Regards,
Peter Goedendorp
sy Xtraordinary

[delmarrey]

I moved your post to the "Meets and Greets". Hopefully you'll get more response here..................................._/)

[SkiprJohn]

Aloha Peter,
Welcome aboard!! There is a lot of SSB information just do a search for SSB in this forum and a lot of threads will come up.
Kind Regards,
JohnL

[Pblais]

Can somebody mention a site with info about SSB, I just bought a new one but would love to get some tips/info.

The forum search engine can check to see if something gets your questions based on posts we already have. Otherwise post a new thread in communications and ask a question. Mention what SSB radio you bought and what you want to know about. There certainly are a lot of potential questions. We have a fair number of members that have SSB radios that would happy to join in the discussion.

[swagman]

Hi Peter,
Welcome also to the forum. Hope you find it useful.
We too have just purchased and installed a new SSB - Icom 802 with Pactor modem for sailmail - using whip antennas.
If anything we've researched / done can be useful to you, just let me know.
Cheers
JOHN