This April, Justine Curgenven and Barry Shaw will attempt to kayak around the Mediterranean island of Sardinia. A few years ago, Barry paddled around the neighbouring island of Corsica and really enjoyed the beauty of the island and the warmth of the sun! Now they are returning to explore approximately 900km of rugged coastline around Sardinia – and hopefully enjoy some more of that sunshine!. They will kayak anti-clockwise in order to have the wind behind them more than against them! At least that’s their theory! You can see Justine’s routes here

Justine’s blog can be found here. Justine is using SMap on a BlackBerry Bold smartphone to record her route and upload it live to our website. So far all routes have been uploaded as she has recorded them. Justine has also joined the growing population of twitter. SMap automatically tweets for her when she starts and ends her route. If you follow justine on twitter then you will see the latest link to the route that she has started. If you see slightly more poetic tweets then we can confirm that this is Justine herself!
They are now already on day five here’s a snippet from their route as it progressed live on the site today:

They are both hoping that kayaking in the Mediterranean will be a bit more relaxing than circumnavigating the South island of New Zealand last year, however they have been warned not to underestimate the strong winds that bombard the coast of Sardinia.

Keep it up Justine and Barry!

RELEASE DATE - Thursday, April 2nd 9AM GMT
Thanks to some awesome feedback on version 1.5 from Snoods around the globe. We are proud to announce the release of version 1.6 of SMap for BlackBerry.

• No more compatability mode issues for Storm users - phew!
• Current Speed as well as average speed.
• Twitter authentication and improved tweets for live routes.
• Lat Lon position data visible and ability to copy this data to the clipboard for easy texting or e-mailing of your position.

Now it is back to taming SMap for the iPhone and taking full advantage of what the latest version of OS 3 brings. We will have a new interim release for iPhone users out around Easter that’ll let you tweet and share your routes live. An announcement shall be made from the rooftops of Sanoodi towers as soon as it is available.
You can download the  latest version of SMap - 1.6 here:

From your BlackBerry go here - http://wap.sanoodi.com

From your web browser this is the place - http://www.sanoodi.com/gomobile/blackberry