Voyages

POSITION REPORT

YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2008/12/07 04:14 LATITUDE: 23-16.27N LONGITUDE: 106-27.33W COMMENT: Beach House – Marina Mazatlan – Fixing Windlass then San Jose del Cabo

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Copper Canyon….

Dear F&F, October 2nd though 9th When Cindy and I returned from our trip up to LA and Santa Rosa, we were looking forward to our long awaited inland tour of Mexico\’s Copper Canyon. This is the Grand Canyon of Mexico, but 5 times bigger. Several rivers and most of the canyon complex is deeper

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French Polynesia Long Stay Visa Application……

September 22, 2008 This was the main reason that we both came to California at this time. I had a trial run applying for the visa when in Los Angeles by myself in June. With our boat documented at my sister\’s address, we were deemed no longer residents of Southern California, so the LA office

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Quick Trip to Cabo San Lucas…..

September 9-10, 2008 There are certain things you never send in the mail: passports, original boat documentation, original import permits, etc. These happened to be the things that the office in charge of issuing permits to visit the Archipelagos Revillagigedos required. So we flew to Cabo San Lucas. Just reaching the right office to find

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Marina Mazatlan……

September 2, 2008 Scott did a brilliant job of navigating us through the breakwater in the dark. I know that because I didn\’t hear any crashing noises as I had my eyes closed. The navigation lights are hard to distinguish from the lights on the land. So the visual is very confusing. We had our

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POSITION REPORT

YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2008/09/02 14:02 LATITUDE: 23-16.27N LONGITUDE: 106-27.34W MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 3 WIND_DIR: 049T BARO: 1008 AIR_TEMP: 26.7C COMMENT: Beach House – DOCKED – Mazatlan Arrived 12:45 AM, 02 Sept 2008

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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2008/09/01 21:05 LATITUDE: 23-47.83N LONGITUDE: 107-35.20W COURSE: 117T SPEED: 7.0 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 7 WIND_DIR: 295T WAVE_HT: 0.3M WAVE_PER: 8 SWELL_DIR: ESE SWELL_HT: 0.9M SWELL_PER: 8 CLOUDS: 25% VISIBILITY: 20 BARO: 1005.8 AIR_TEMP: 36.7C SEA_TEMP: 30.6C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE – Mazatlan to 3/4ths of the way ETA Sept 2nd

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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2008/09/01 10:52 LATITUDE: 24-21.53N LONGITUDE: 108-43.40W COURSE: 118T SPEED: 7.1 MARINE: YES WIND_SPEED: 5 WIND_DIR: 309T WAVE_HT: 0.3M WAVE_PER: 8 SWELL_DIR: ESE SWELL_HT: 0.3M SWELL_PER: 8 BARO: 1004.9 AIR_TEMP: 27.8C SEA_TEMP: 28.9C COMMENT: Beach House – EN ROUTE – Mazatlan 1/2 way ETA Sept 2nd EARLY AM….

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