Monthly Archives : February 2020

Back to Barra for a quick trip home


My business partner had a vacation scheduled and needed me to head back to Minnesota while he was gone. So a few days before, I returned to the Barra lagoon and the day before I moved to the marina. I was lucky enough to find another cruiser heading home the a week so we could share a driver both to…

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Private beach hike in Tenacatita


Last year some friends (Mike (SV Shanti) and Damon (SV Gia)) worked for days in hot, humid conditions with biting and stinging insects to clear a trail from “dog” beach in the Tenacatita anchorage over to a private beach on the opposite side of the peninsula. My schedule didn’t allow me check out their work last season so it was…

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Taking a break in Tenacatita


A reset was needed from the non-stop party atmosphere in Barra and with Tenacatita just a short hop away I peeled out for a few days. Every day I’d get in a beach walk all the way past the resort. And every time there seemed to be something that made me chuckle or shake my head. In addition, I took…

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Pulling into Barra with a plan


Back in Perula, Ralph and Helen had talked to a couple on a monohull named Cadenza, the owners Jay and Terri had been over for dinner and mentioned they had some friends who were looking at buying a catamaran. They had been impressed with the layout on Moon Drifter, and knowing that we planned to sell Strikhedonia Ralph mentioned that…

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Provisioning in La Manzanilla


With supplies getting low on Sky Pond and plan was hatched to join them on a trip to La Manzanilla for provision. In the morning there was a pretty good surge, so the revised plan was to take Strikhedonia over in the morning and use the kayaks to get to shore rather than risk flipping a dinghy. We made the…

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