Archive for May, 2009
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Year End Stats
Since this is it for us sailing-wise this season (until early November) I thought I’d list our stats for the year: Nautical Miles sailed: 1057 Number of overnight passages: 5 Days with wind > 30 knots: 15 Days sailing in >30 knots: 2 Days with wind >40 knots: +10 Days sailing in >40 knots: 0 [...]
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Saturday, May 16th, 2009
Mas Español y Nica Surf Circuit
As we’re laying up the boat for the summer, i.e. hurricane season, Chris and I are taking another Spanish class. We’ve finally moved on from present tense and spent the week learning the preterit, and the imperfect tenses. My head is swimming with all of this new information. It’s going to take a few days [...]
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
Padma on Terra Firma
Yesterday was haul-out day here in San Juan del Sur Nicaragua. We had originally arranged to take the boat out last week, but ‘la gripe porcina’ seemed to change all of those plans. There were many cruise ships whose itineraries were diverted to Nicaragua instead of Mexico. I’m not a huge fan of those cruise [...]