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Category: Sailing Tales

Sailing Tales

The Lighted Boat Parade

26 December 2009By admin

Christmas Eve in Bahia San Carlos included a parade of lighted boats that went out of the bay and around the corner. We had a

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Feeding frenzy

26 December 2009By admin

The birds have cottoned to us on Sea Venture. They figured out it’s not only the pangas that drop goodies off their stern, but also

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Lunch time!

28 November 2009By admin

We were sitting out in the cockpit, enjoying a leisurely lunch today when suddenly the motor boats/ fishing fleet decided to return en masse. Just

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Boat Sailing Tales

Cockpit captain’s chair and table

28 November 2009By admin

Some folks on www.force50.org were interested in the captain’s chair we installed after our boisterous trip south, so we’re including one picture here and a

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Bahia San Carlos

25 November 2009By admin

With a view like that and with weather that gives us warmish days and cool nights, with a bay that’s clean enough that we can

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A Link to San Carlos Clean-up

9 September 2009By admin

The following link will take you to Kiki Grossman’s blog to see some great pictures of how well the folk there are doing in the

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The Hurricane in San Carlos

7 September 2009By admin

It’s Senor J. Salas’s fault. He stood in the Marina Seca office and said they needed rain. “Don’t worry about the wind. It won’t be

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Boat Sailing Tales

Boarding Ladder

27 August 2009By admin

We had these constructed while in Mazatlan, but now a friend wants to see them, so I’m posing the pics here. It’s a great ladder,

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View of Guaymas and Friend

27 August 2009By admin

I love herons. This fellow landed on a neighboring boat and soon decided he didn’t like the view, so he turned around where he could

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Guaymas

14 August 2009By admin

We motored over to the Singlar Marina in Guaymas yesterday in the early hours before the wind piped up. It’s hard to maneuver this old

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