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Category: Sailing Tales

Sailing Tales

San Evaristo revisited

27 April 2010By admin

SundayMama is a trooper. No two ways about. Here she is, 82-years-young, and we’ve been hauling her through rocky and rolly waves that would exhaust

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Puerto Escondido

20 April 2010By admin

Here is a picture of Puerto Escondido at night. Don the Amigo Net weatherman from Summer Passage had suggested that the next day might have

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Ballandra, Isla Carmen

13 April 2010By admin

After a rowdy 12-hour trip south from Concepcion in rather unpleasant following seas but with enough wind to push us at and above hull speed,

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San Carlos to Bahia Concepcion

5 April 2010By admin

Easter SundayMaybe the Lord wanted to bless my mama. Maybe He just decided we’d had enough miserable crossings. I know not, but the day fulfilled

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In Guaymas and back to San Carlos

3 April 2010By admin

We flew in to Guaymas on the 25th with Mama in tow and spent a delightful week shopping, seeing a doctor — love Mexican doctors!

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Thank You, Lord, for EARPLUGS

15 February 2010By admin

  We’re surviving Carnival thanks to earplugs. With these in, a pillow over my head, the Hella fan on high, and all the hatches and

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Carnival in Guaymas

11 February 2010By admin

Today is the beginning of Carnival. As a prelude, the carnival with rides arrived just after we did. I must say, as I watched the

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In Guaymas Again

1 February 2010By admin

Leaving Bahia San Carlos. Kaisen, an 85′, 90 ton, steel converted Army work boat owned by Hugh and Victoria, is in the foreground. Heading to

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Tomorrow It’s Back to Guaymas

31 January 2010By admin

We said good-bye to folks in San Carlos Marina and here in the bahia today. Tomorrow morning we leave for Guaymas, where we’ll go back

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Boat Sailing Tales

Sunset in San Carlos

14 January 2010By admin

Friends took this picture of us at anchor here in Bahia San Carlos. Can you see why we’re still here? Of course, this afternoon it’s

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