Sailing inyourfootsteps.com

We are currently focusing the site’s capabilities upon the Irish coastline. We are using havens and routes to make the following statement come true: ‘No boatman need pass by Ireland for the want of shelter in a storm, the knowledge of its resources, or a place of natural beauty to come to rest’.

Currently half of Ireland’s coastline is covered and we are continuing around the coast. If you would like to help please click the ‘share’ button above for details. There is a list of targeted locations at ‘help us’ that you may be familiar with and your help will be greatly appreciated. We would also be delighted to hear of proven cruising routes or cuts along this coastline.

Finally, have you discovered optimisations on your boat or solved problems? Let’s share them. Nothing is too small or too large to help. Again please click the ‘share’ button and you will be guided through an immediate contribution.

All will be of enormous help to the next boatman who will be following in your footsteps.

There is a wide selection of sailing publications available; technical books, cruising guides, voyage accounts not to mention a host of excellent sailing magazines.

Few are freely available to anyone who have web or mobile web access; right here, right now. Few are defined by category in a normalised, straight-to-the point easily understood format. Few allow the user to comment, enhance or correct data with immediacy. Few, if any, are free. 

Plus when inyourfootsteps.com focuses, such as in Ireland, nothing compares with the breadth and depth of information we make available. This is what we do and why we are unique.

But it is more than that, it is what stands behind what we do that defines us most. Our vision, the innovation that is in our blood, our recipe of people, process and technology. All combine to make inyourfootsteps.com one-of-a-kind.

"What we keep within ourselves, dies with us.  What we give to others, is immortal."

anonymous

We believe the greatest achievements are created by the power of what we do together. That the most precious thing we bring to a collective is our individual human insight.

As individuals we all journey on different paths, sometimes ahead on our paths, sometimes behind. Imagine creating an insight sharing flow between different points in our paths? This is our passion and intellectual imperative. For with human insight, the more we share, the more we have.

Sometimes you have to be what you want to see in the world. That’s why we created inyourfootsteps.com and made it freely available to all.

in your footsteps .com shares personal sailing insight. It collects, structures and preserves individual contributions of practical experience and makes it freely available to all via the web and mobile web (Go Lite).

Personal boating insight is broken into three areas. ‘Experience’ covers the optimisations, procedures, tried-and-tested approaches discovered whilst handling vessels. This is broadly categorised ‘boat, maintenance, comfort, handling, safety’, and their subsections.

‘Routes’ captures proven routing waypoints that range from tidal efficiencies to short cuts to international passages.

‘Havens’ provides first-hand knowledge of ports and anchorages – accessibility information, resources and advice. Routes and havens have commenced in Ireland.

These three areas of the sailing community insight we bring together and share for the common good.