Map of the Pages on this site
- Home - s/v Mother of Perl +Writing /Beamreach/index.shtml Many times started, never finished novel of adventure and intrigue in Haiti
- Boat - Details of the design and layout on Mother of Perl.
- Design - The many pages that describe the design of the boat Mother of Perl.
- Hull - A description of Mother of Perl's hull design, the history the hull shape and where the line were drawn
- Deck - A description (with illustration) of the deck layout
- Interior - A description (with illustrations) of the cabin space
- Specs - The final specifications of Mother of Perl -- dimensions, hardware, etc.
- Hull - The dimensions and makeup of the hull
- Sails - The dimensions and type of sail
- Engine - The model and specifications of the auxilary engine
- Instruments - The navigation instrument on board
- Interior - The materials of the interior
- Building - The journal of the construction of Mother of Perl.
- Future - Mother of Perl's new owners rename and refit her
- Log - A log of the building and travels of the Smith Forbes family
- 1998 - Construction of S/V Mother of Perl
- 1999 - We leave the USA, go Estonia, winter in Islas Canaria
- FirstSail - The voyage to Vastervik, Sweden for rigging and sail
- 2000 - Separated again
- Hamburg - Ben's trip with German crew from Hamburg to Amsterdam in the Autumn of 2000
- England - We make it through the Netherlands and across the English Channel
- GoingSouth - With an internation crew of 4, Mother of Perl makes her way from Falmouth to the Canary Islands in October 2000
- AtlanticCrossing - Mother of Perl joins ARC (Atlantic Rally Crossing) and makes the passage from Gran Canaria to St. Lucia, West Indies.
- 2001 - Living in St. Lucia
- 2002 - North to the Virgin Island
- Photos - Photographs of our Journeys with Mother of Perl
- Boat - Photographs of Mother of Perl
- Building - Photographs of the process of construction of Mother of Perl
- New - An album of recent photographs after her hull was repainted blue
- Home - An album of photographs of the interior
- Estonia - Several albums of the different places in Estonia where we have spent time
- Tallinn - An album of photographs taken and around Tallinn
- Saaremaa - Photographs of the Estonian island of Saaremaa
- Bug - Some moths and a spider
- J.Hendrika - Photographs aboard the Johanna Hendrika, the Netherlander sailing ship that we chartered in the summer of 1999 to sail in Western islands of Estonia
- Kihnu - Photographs of the serene and rustic Estonian island of Kihnu
- Parnu - Photographs (mostly of the colorful doors) of the historic Estonian resort town of Parnu
- Door - Photographs of the colorful doors of the resort city of Parnu
- Tenerife - An album of images of the Canarian island of Tenerife
- Teide - An album of images of the Tenerife dormant volcano
- Orotava - An album of images of the romantical Tenerife town of Orotava
- Anaga - An album of images of remote scenic valleys of the Anaga Mountains on the island of Tenerife
- Guimar - An album of images of the historic park at the pyramids of Guimar. Much of this park is devoted to anthropological theories of Thor Heyerdahl.
- Xmas99 - Photographs of what our Christmas (December 25, 1999) and New Year (December 31, 1999) were like.
- KingsDay99 - Photographs of the Spanish Christmas gift day as celebrated in the Canarian town of Garachico
- Castillo - Photographs of Thomas's birthday entertainment
- Thoma - Photographs of Thomas and his friend
- Caribbean - Photographs of Mother of Perl sojourn in the Caribbean
- St.Lucia - The first island we landed on after crossing the Atlantic. We made repairs, and repainted here
- Bequia - The northernmost island of the Grenadines and a mecca for sailor
- Virgin - The most popular Caribbean islands for sailing, snorkeling and family fun
- TrellisBay - Our favorite place in the British Virgin Island. The best liveaboard community in all of the Caribbean
- Videos - Videos of and about Mother of Perl
- Hydrography - Hydrographic Surveying with s/v Mother of Perl
- nmea2xyzt - Perl code for generating xyzt table from NMEA stream
- NMEAfields - Manual for NMEAfields Perl Module
- Datalogger - A Perl daemon for logging TCP, UDP, and serial streams of line delimited data
- Source - Source code for NMEAfields Perl Module
- Cleaning - Data Cleaning Tool
- BandPass - A Perl script to clean xyzt data
- Analysis - Preparation for Gridding and Plotting
- Stats - Perl for basic statistics on XYZT data table
- Smooth - A forward looking smoothing program for XYZT data table
- GridPlot - Gridding and Plotting with GMT
- bp - A Perl script for quick plots from xyzt data table -- it is an front end to GMT
- Blog - Captain Ben's Blog
- Plans - Plans for Mother of Perl
- Sail - Sailing stories from Mother of Perl
- Family - Family events of Smith, Forbes, and Nace
- Projects - Notes from various CCOM projects that Ben is working on
- Tech - Anythin techie
- SiteMap - Index of this World Wide Web site