Archive for November, 2009
Monday, November 30th, 2009
Huatulco
I never thought I’d see the day where I’m ecstatic over a well-stocked grocery store. Nicaragua was a little light on variety. It’s just awesome here in Huatulco. The Mexican government has been promoting the Bays of Huatulco for quite some time as an eco-travel destination. As a result, the whole area is well planned [...]
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
El Salvador to Huatulco: Drama on the High Seas
We are currently 45 nautical miles from our final destination of Huatulco. It’s taken us a bit longer than originally planned. This is because we stopped for an overnight anchorage – to ‘regain our marbles’, as one of the Chris’ from Iwalani put it. This story contains many Chris’. Iwalani has two on board, (an [...]
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Long Passage Ahead
I’m just at the fuel dock, in Bahia del Sol, El Salvador prepping for the 500 mile passage to Huatulco. We have a good weather window right now, and thought we’d take advantage of it. We’ll be at least five days at sea and will be travelling with Iwalani, our friends from Hawaii. Our diesel [...]
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Saturday, November 14th, 2009
On Nicas, and Stopping in El Salvador
The Nicaraguan officials made the two and half hour drive from Corinto to Puesto del Sol (our current location), so that we could clear our paper work. Three guys arrive: the navy, who writes up your Zarpe, immigration, who clears your passport, and a third more mysterious official called “Minister of Transportation”. The first two [...]
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
The Fish Curse has been Lifted
We had a fantastic passage north from San Juan del Sur to Puesto del Sol, about 120 nautical miles. The moon was out, the stars were shining and we were zipping along on a beam reach at 6.5 knots. The boat moves really well after the hulls have been repainted. We also lightened our load [...]
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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
Waiting For Ida
It looks like we’re ready to go, except that we’ll have to wait out a bit of weather. Check out the plot of hurricane Ida below. We’re almost exactly opposite of where she made landfall as a category one hurricane on the eastern coast of Nicaragua — about as close as I ever want to [...]
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Where the Boat Belongs
This is what it’s all about: floating in the bay with nothing but the soothing sound of crashing waves, and a pirated internet connection. All that work is a fading memory now, but boy are we sore! The launch went pretty smoothly, and so far, all systems are back online. The only thing left to [...]
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Day of the Dead Baptism
I’ve been a little negligent updating this thing, I know. Work, work, work. After refinishing the saildrives, taking apart the windlass and cleaning and painting that, gel coat repairs, redoing our ground tackle for our anchor, sanding and then applying numerous coats of antifouling paint on the hulls, prepping the engine (replacing the transmission fluid, [...]