2015 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL to Guatemala Voyage

POSITION REPORT – Beach House – Rio Dulce, Guatemala…..

YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2015/12/31 18:34 LATITUDE: 15-39.37N LONGITUDE: 088-59.63W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 4 WIND_DIR: ENE CLOUDS: 40% VISIBILITY: 10 BARO: 1025.6 AIR_TEMP: 33.9C COMMENT: Beach House – DOCKED – RAM Marina – ready to depart this afternoon to begin the 2016 season – Frontera, Guatemala Hello F&F who are on our position report – direct! …

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POSITION REPORT – Livingston, Guatemala – Awaiting check in…..

AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2015/04/29 14:00 LATITUDE: 15-49.33N LONGITUDE: 088-44.91W MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 4 WIND_DIR: N SWELL_DIR: E SWELL_HT: 0.1M CLOUDS: 85% VISIBILITY: 6 BARO: 1008.1 AIR_TEMP: 29.4C SEA_TEMP: 21.7C COMMENT: Beach House -ANCHORED – Livingston, Guatemala – Awating check in….. We\’re back! The weather wouldn\’t allow us enough time to get to Panama …

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POSITION REPORT – Beach House still awaiting weather window!…..

YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2015/04/18 11:53 LATITUDE: 16-20.24N LONGITUDE: 086-28.52W COMMENT: Beach House – DOCKED – Barefoot Cay Marina, Roatan, Bay of Islands – Honduras Still awaiting (now over 3 weeks!) for a weather window to get around \”Punta Gracias Adios\’ (Thank God Point). Essentially, we\’re stuck in the almost bottom of the Gulf of Honduras …

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Guatemala and on to Honduras…..

March 17th – 24th, 2015 (-6 on UTC) Dear Friends and Family,  (LOTS OF PHOTOS and a VIDEO at the end of  this  post) Our trip to the entrance to the Rio Dulce of Guatemala from Placencia, Belize wasn’t particularly exciting until we arrived at the entrance to the “Rio”. The charts show low tide …

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POSITION REPORT- Fantasy Island, Roatan, Bay of Islands – Honduras

AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2015/03/26 23:00 LATITUDE: 16-21.44N LONGITUDE: 086-26.31W COMMENT: Beach House – DOCKED – Fantasy Island, Roatan, Bay of Islands – Honduras We decided to move on as the weather would be reasonably cooperative and Roatan is the big deal island of this group. Still pretty bumpy out there and the wind …

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Position Report – Isla Utila, Bay of Islands – Honduras

AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2015/03/25 17:10 LATITUDE: 16-05.66N LONGITUDE: 086-53.86W COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Isla Utila, Bay of Islands – Honduras We had a lovely almost week in the Rio Dulce, highlighted by our visit from Carmina who drove in from Guatemala City. With Carmina and the crew of \”Windward\”, we rented …

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Position Report – Rio Dulce-Frontera, Guatemala…..

AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2015/03/18 18:04 LATITUDE: 15-39.37N LONGITUDE: 088-59.64W COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Rio Dulce – RAM Marina, Frontera, Guatemala We had a nice anchor spot in the river mouth last night and it was fascinating watching all the various fishing boats come and go. Mostly, really small ones. The trip …

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Position Report – Rio Dulce – Livingstone, Guatemala…..

AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2015/03/18 00:04 LATITUDE: 15-48.81N LONGITUDE: 088-45.39W COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Rio Dulce – Livingston, Guatemala We departed Placencia, Belize at about 8 am and motored in little wind directly south to the mouth of the Rio Dulce (Sweet Water River). This is another tricky entry as there is …

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You better Belize it! and on to the Rio Dulce of Guatemala…..

March 4th – March 17th, 2015 (-6 on UTC) Dear Friends and Family, We negotiated the somewhat tricky entrance at San Pedro, Belize and as we’d been just on the move, decided to take the afternoon off. Dennis and Lisette on “Windward” had checked in that morning and said it was a breeze. We went …

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Position Report – Placencia, Belize

AIRMAIL YOTREPS IDENT: N6ABC TIME: 2015/03/15 21:04 LATITUDE: 16-30.58N LONGITUDE: 088-21.88W COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED – Placencia, Belize We had another breezy night at Glover Reef and during the day, we did one dive. We departed this morning and had a lovely sail to the Gladden Spit. The Spit is a big entrance to …

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