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Category: Sailing Tales

Sailing Tales

Bahia Falsa

14 April 2009By admin

Bahia Falsa4/12/09Easter SundayHe Is Risen!!! Cacti silhouette the hills’ edge. Silence, except for the distant drone of traffic on the road into La Paz and

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Boat Sailing Tales

A Mess at Sea

14 April 2009By admin

Thea Renee buddy boated with us across from Mazatlan. Here she is to starboard in the last rays of Friday’s windless day, her owners unaware

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Sailing Tales

Lunch at Playa Mazatlan

6 April 2009By admin

I thought I’d post a few more pictures taken at our latest day out, when we rewarded ourselves after having our skin zapped of funny

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Sailing Tales

Dangerous place?

29 March 2009By admin

News stateside is that Mexico holds extreme danger to us and other visitors. Between drug deals and shoot-outs, kidnappings and theft, one ought to hightail

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Sailing Tales

Xanadu’s Crew

28 March 2009By admin

Paul and Tamar and their boat Xanadu, and at Normandie’s Birthday dinner at Playa Mazatlan. Also in the dinner picture is Erwin of s/v Thea

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Sailing Tales

The Vagabond 47 Thea Renee

28 March 2009By admin

Thea Renee’s owners, Erwin and Phyllis, have lovingly cared for their beautiful boat, especially its gleaming, perfectly varnished teak. This picture captures them sailing through

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Sailing Tales

More Mazatlan

28 March 2009By admin

Playa Mazatlan is a hotel on the Gold Coast, Zona Dorada, and is a lovely place to go for lunch or dinner. We had my

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Sailing Tales

The barber

26 December 2008By admin

Here are two pictures of my second haircut in Mazatlan, which took place on the dock between Sea Venture and the Beneteau next to us.

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Boat Sailing Tales

Marina Mazatlan

21 December 2008By admin

Here are a few pictures we’ve taken at the marina. Very lovely, clean, open, friendly–quite different from the town, in which my olfactory sensors rebel.

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Boat Sailing Tales

Still Crossing the Sea

20 December 2008By admin

By Friday we were making minimal headway in very light wind and Friday night our boat speed read 00. We kept all sails up in

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