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2017 Sailing Route

Last year we sailed from Hastings (Victoria), up the east coast of Australia, turned left at the Torres Straight Islands to Darwin, then hooked a right up to Dili (East Timor), where we meandered westward through East Nusa Tenggara (Indonesia) until we got to Lombok. We left Red Dragonfly at a little island called Gili…

Where are you?!?!?

Case Study: Pattern Recognition in 2018 FB Messenger Conversations This research has identified a consistent trend in online conversations between Mayra and her friends. Qualitative analysis of a large data sample drawn from the social media application Facebook Messenger shows frequent use of the question ‘where are you?!?’ This result suggests Mayra has failed to…

Dili, Timor-Leste

It took us 3 days to sail from Darwin to Dili. We expected to have around 10-15 knots of south-easterly winds pushing us across the Timor Sea and then no wind for the last 24 hours as we traveled along the north coast of Timor. In fact, the opposite occurred. We motored for the first…