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!

We’ve been working hard on a new, quicker, cleaner, leaner, meaner, brighter, thinner, lighter, and tighter version of SMap for the BlackBerry Storm.

In addition to some rather nice new screens for both the Storm and older BB’s, we have twitterfied SMap too! If you use SMap to record routes live on the web and you enter your Twitter account details in the settings screen. Your route details, activity and a link to your live route will automatically be added to your Twitterfeed.

User feedback from the previous BlackBerry releases means that we have improved how SMap records the accuracy of your route. If you are running around in a town with lots of right angles and tight turns, you can now in Settings set the accuracy of your route down to recording a waypoint every 20m.  If you are cycling like a dervish 40 miles down a long, straight highway then you can set the accuracy to record a waypoint every 80m.

Non-Storm users, and BlackBerry traditionalists do not despair! we have updated all the screens for you non-touch phone users too! Give it a go and Share your adventures on Sanoodi.
SMap can be downloaded and used for free here.