October 20, 2023
It was going to be a huge day, we lifted anchor at 4:00am and with the cruise ship and mega yacht’s lights it made it easier to remain oriented for the ourselves. Exiting from the blue lagoon, we weaved around the islands and reefs timing the sun’s arrival with our exit into longer straight stretches. And with it, up came…
October 3, 2023
After a beat to get south to meet us, the day finally came to meet up with our friends Roxy and Carl. Traffic pushed us a little behind schedule but by 10:00am SV Sky Pond was on the fuel dock and all of the boat items we muled out to Fiji were aboard. After helping Carl and Jean get off…
April 29, 2022
Work day, we had a number of things to take care of before departing and the most exciting was getting hoisted up the mast to clean the connection to the wind instrument. The wind direction had not been working for a few days and it is pretty important when sailing. Getting the Bosun’s chair and safety prusik took longer than…
July 24, 2020
Best to back up a bit first… With Strikhedonia in Puerto Vallarta and a delivery captain hired it was a waiting game for good weather and delivery crew availability. A month rolls by, no set date. A second month rolls by, still no set date and talk of other deliveries being ahead of Strikhedonia. Huh?!?! So I began the search…
March 22, 2020
The night that Anna and Jessica left PV I talked to my wife. She was greatly concerned as the shelves were bare at the grocery stores in Minnesota. So the next day I headed to Walmart where I stocked up on all the dry good staples, just in case I was stuck for months in Mexico. My plan was to…
February 8, 2020
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…
December 31, 2019
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December 21, 2019
After motoring to Paradise Village from Yelapa, we pulled into a nice slip with plenty of boat projects to get done as well as visiting with our friends who live in Vallarta. Of course trips to the pool and eating out every night soften the affects of daily boat work. Sadly, or maybe not given the work, it was quickly…
December 10, 2019
Shockingly everyone was awake at my normal time (pre 6:00am), but we didn’t get moving that fast. Around 8:30 we dropped off our laundry and headed for more coffee and Wifi. I had a lot of work to catch up on so it was head down and plow through. Eventually Jean and Vicki were done with the Wifi while and…
December 9, 2019
Not one to overbook, we didn’t have massive plans for our first full day in Chacala. Vicki and I did some britework polishing to remove rust from the crossing while Jean went for a kayak. The heat and sun kicked our butts so we only got about 25% of the boat knocked off before we called it a day. The…
December 4, 2019
A bit of breakfast and then it was time to visit the blue footed boobies. Walking from the beach we could hear some talking near the research center. Coming through the trees we stumbled on a group of high school students who were camping and learning about ecology. Jean showed us the path, for a little bit… The mass of…
December 2, 2019
Today’s scheduled hike for 8:00am was postponed due to cooler weather and the desire for a mellow start to the day. After breakfast I took on the preparations for our crossing, topping off the diesel tanks – which was made difficult due to the wind, checking the engines, and reviewing the latest weather forecast. Before heading to shore I started…