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Walmar and the Quest for Freon

23 April 2013

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Walmar and the Quest for Freon

In general, when it comes to boats, Murphy is always waiting in the wings bilge to kick up his heels and have a little fun. Gotta hand it to him, dude’s got a twisted sense of humor. Our refrigeration system went offline yesterday, which is a pretty big deal since we no longer live in […]

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Random La Cruz de Huanacaxtle

16 April 2013

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Random La Cruz de Huanacaxtle

We spent a month in Puerto Vallarta (pre-boat) a couple of years after I got hurt. I was still in a wheelchair and that’s the biggest reason we came–hoping that the much warmer climate and water might loosen up some of the scar tissue in my muscles and help get me moving again. The trip […]

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Alien Abduction

10 April 2013

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Alien Abduction

Last week, I walked up to the Kiosko convenience store to get a couple things and as I rounded the corner, it was chaos. There were cases and cases of Cup-O-Noodles stacked head high, surrounded by confused looking young men, a beer truck, dogs, kids, four chefs, trash, a mop and a mop bucket, and […]

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Random Puerto Vallarta

5 April 2013

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Random Puerto Vallarta

We were going to Puerto Vallarta one day, and got off the bus too early. Walked along the beach for a while and then took a shortcut up a dry riverbed to get to the streets. Really glad we didn’t miss out on all cool things we saw.

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Looking For Crocodiles

28 March 2013

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Looking For Crocodiles

One of the first things we saw after pulling into Paradise Village Marina in Banderas Bay, was a little African Queen-type tour boat that’ll take you deep into the mangrove swamps so you can maybe see some crocodiles. Eli was all, “That’s kind of cool, but we can totally do that in the dinghy for […]

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Duct Tape On The Rocks

27 March 2013

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Duct Tape On The Rocks

“If…anchorage…Duct Tape is on the rocks…,” was pretty much all I picked out before the VHF went crazy with static and people stepping on each other. We turned up the radio and started sweeping the far shoreline with binoculars. “Don’t know if anyone can help…looks pretty bad…please, there’s a boat on the rocks outside the […]

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First & Second

25 March 2013

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First & Second

Yesterday was for firsts–today, for seconds. Yesterday I surfed a new spot for the first time, right near the boat. It’s a long and rocky point break just east of La Cruz de Huanacaxtle. It was the first time that I ever had an entire surf session all by myself. It was also the longest […]

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Cleat Hitch

21 March 2013

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Yesterday Eli and I were inflating our warranty replacement dinghy as a really nice catamaran was coming in to the dock at Paradise Village Marina. We walked over to help them and they tossed us some lines. I cleated off the bow so that they could use that line to turn the boat on and […]

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Hockles Suck. Also, I may have tied an Air Bowline.

13 March 2013

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Hockles Suck. Also, I may have tied an Air Bowline.

From the backlog: When we upped anchor in Turtle Bay, we came face to face with a weird looking section of 3-strand that turned out to be a Hockle [cue foreboding music]. Innocuous little word, isn’t it? Rhymes with cockle and is the equivalent of the blue screen of death for your anchor line. Worse, […]

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Can’t Tell If Anchor Dragging Or Just Weird Wind Direction…

11 March 2013

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Can’t Tell If Anchor Dragging Or Just Weird Wind Direction…

“Tamiko,” Steve called, from out on deck, “Need you to come up and take a look at this. Tell me what you think–we’ve got a little sailboat getting…pretty damn close.” Yesterday we decamped from the La Cruz marina and found a spot in the anchorage that’s fairly close to the breakwater, which is nice because […]

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