Wind And Waves

Here we are arriving at the Harbor in Mazatlan. We have a little job to do……………pull the Cat out of the water and fix a piece on the engine (I need to ask Wayne the name of it again) Here is one of many fishing boats around. It was interesting to see it up close, […]

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Carol enjoying a ride on the nets. Its really fun when there are dolphins to play with! Also a great place to read a book and suntan 🙂 Eric, steering for awhile. Most the time we have it on auto pilot but sometimes its just nice to steer and necessary when we were maneuvering into […]

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Wayne and Carol, sunset off of Deer island. We anchored around Deer island, right off of Mazatlan and spent a couple days exploring.  The snorkeling was a little murky (I’m getting so spoiled!)  So exploring the island was much more exciting for me.  I LOVE running around in my bare feet and bikini exploring an […]

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We spent the following day getting ready for the next leg of our journey. This meant zooming around Mazatlan in a pulmonaria  Pulmonario is a little volkswagon looking car, that is open to the air (hence the word pulmonario…..means lungs) It feels like your in a golf cart. We did a huge shopping trip. Spirits […]

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Upon reaching Mazatlan, I knew I had to find another boat heading South because Ian was going to stick around for awhile. This process gives me a lot of anxiety. I’m still shy, no matter how hard I try to push myself out of my comfort zone with this! Making myself comfortable and thus helpful […]

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I love sailing, if not for any other reason because I love arriving……and I Love leaving! So it was great to be leaving La Paz and off to new and different cities and villages. I jumped on Ian’s boat (below) named Blythe Spirit. His boat was filled with character. A shaman had gone over it […]

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Here is the boat I crewed on from Cabo to La Paz, named Marissa, a Tayana. A Beautiful boat with a teak interior. I was excited that Walter (part owner of the boat) was from Portland. On our trip we enjoyed Stumptown Coffee freshly ground in a hand grinder from (Albania….?) It became our ritual […]

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Here it is, my first catch ever! With Thaddeous, showing me how to do it, I reeled this yellow tail tuna in. I won’t mention what happened after the picture was taken, to the poor tuna! In order to kill it, you pound its head with a hammer or pour alcohol in its gills and […]

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I have so much catching up to do!  Wow. I got into San Diego, had an amazing time getting to know Kay (Matt’s mom) who along with Matt, were unbelievably supporting.  I also had a chance to get to know my  boat mates (quite characters, they are……..Lunasea ll (our boat name) might just be perfect […]

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I left Moab! With tears in my eyes. I have never fallen in love with a land as deeply as I have Moab. It was heart wrenching to leave……….but at least I feel like I have a home I want to come back to. Someday! In three weeks…in Two years……who knows! I’m on my moto […]

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