Dear F&F, February 28, 2009 Bahia del Sol, El Salvador Scott listened to the Pan Pacific net on the radio this morning. A whole different crowd of cruisers. Most of the boats on this net are here in Central America all the way down to Panama & many that are making the Pacific crossing. He […]
Two Days Before Beaching \”Beach House\” (remember, we\’re doing this intentionally!)….. Read More »
TIME: 2009/02/28 16:21 LATITUDE: 13-18.07N LONGITUDE: 088-53.51W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 5 WIND_DIR: NNW CLOUDS: 10% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1008.4 AIR_TEMP: 28.9C COMMENT: Beach House – DOCKED – Marina Bahia del Sol, \”BAR\” exciting, but no problem
Dear F&F, February 26-27, 2009 Scott is wide awake by 6:15 am. There is no point in trying to sleep after he gets up. He goes straight outside for the hose & starts to wash the pounds of black soot & ash off our boat. There are some big chunks of burned stuff. Very, very
Passage to El Salvador….. Read More »
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2009/02/27 16:43 LATITUDE: 13-16.93N LONGITUDE: 088-54.70W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 9 WIND_DIR: ESE CLOUDS: 10% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1011.8 AIR_TEMP: 31.1C COMMENT: Beach House – ANCHORED OUTSIDE THE BAR – Bahia del Sol, El Salvador – waiting for tide, 5pm CST
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2009/02/26 20:47 LATITUDE: 13-36.09N LONGITUDE: 090-08.96W COURSE: 118T SPEED: 7.4 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 14 WIND_DIR: ESE WAVE_HT: 0.9M WAVE_PER: 10 SWELL_DIR: SSE SWELL_HT: 0.9M SWELL_PER: 10 CLOUDS: 10% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1009.8 AIR_TEMP: 31.7C SEA_TEMP: 27.8C COMMENT: Beach House – ABEAM – Guatemala – El Salvador border, EN ROUTE – Bahia del
Dear F&F, February 25, 2009 We were not too surprised to hear from Ziggy the mechanic that the ship yard would not be ready to haul us out on Tuesday. But when we got another \”manana\” story this morning we decided to go there & see what was the hold up. Carmina drove us the
No Haul Out in Guatemala….. Read More »
Dear F&F, February 22-23, 2009 After breakfast onboard, we climbed into Carmina\’s Toyota Yaris (similar to a Corolla) & enjoyed the air conditioned 1 hr drive to Antigua. Guatemala has 36 volcanoes, several active. We stopped to let Scott photograph the grey smoke puffing out of the one called Fuego (fire). At least 2 are
Trip to Antigua & Tranmission Pick Up….. Read More »
Dear F&F, February 21, 2009 We slept very well with the air conditioner on which kept out the noise of the US Coast Guard sailors partying at the nearby palapa restaurant/bar. We got up about 7:15 am. Miguel Oscar who is recommended in our cruising guide as an agent to help with the check-in process
First Day in Guatemala….. Read More »
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2009/02/21 04:11 LATITUDE: 13-55.47N LONGITUDE: 090-47.74W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 5 WIND_DIR: E CLOUDS: 10% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1011.1 AIR_TEMP: 26.7C COMMENT: Beach House – DOCKED – Marina Pez Vela, Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala
Dear F&F, The following is an edited version of Scott Adam\’s email to us regarding the successful acquisition of our NEW transmission. February 20, 2009 Email Report from Scott Adam, aka: \”Our Hero\”: 0630: Arise to the stock market falling. 0700: You call on Satellite Telephone (Scott Stolnitz) 0715: Go to Costa Mesa (Boatswains Locker
Scott Adam\’s Day…..The Great Transmission Caper….. Read More »