Allan and Rina's 2010 Sailing Adventure: SailBlogs

Our Ensenada Interlude and Trip to Turtle Bay

Allan — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:54:40 -0500

Three short days in Ensenada, ensconced at Marina Coral, allowed Rina and I to clean up and re-provision the boat for our trip down the coast of Baja California. We caught a convenient hotel shuttle from the West Marine parking lot in San Diego with our gear and the spoils from our Port Supply and Downwind Marine runs. The 90 minute trip to the Hotel Coral along the coast helped reacquaint us with the Mexico we have been away from for the past year. On Saturday, our trip to the Port of Ensenada to inspect Follow You before the boat was lowered into the water was delayed from 10am to 6pm, precipitating an additional night in the hotel before floating her off Dockwise Sunday morning. The boat travelled the 5000+ miles pretty well, with only rusty stanchions to show for her journey. This was much better than our friends Tom and Monique's catamaran Zen, with a new paint job, which had been covered in Auckland by shrinkwrap for her journey. Super Servant 3 encountered 55 knot winds and rough seas around the Cook Islands, which tore or bent most of the stanchions on Zen. Fortunately her new topsides and hull paint job still looked great, with only 3-4 gouges where the uprooted stanchions had bashed the nearby hull. (Continued...)

We're Baaaaack... In Mexico!

Allan — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:09:06 -0500

After what seemed like an eternity, we are finally back aboard Follow You... not that we didn't have a blast on the South Island of New Zealand or visiting relatives and friends in California. It does however reinforce again how much this has become our home. We enjoyed several days in Newport Beach last week visiting Stephanie and John, who last visited us in the Marquesas and Tuamoto's last year. John was kind enough to put his 22 foot RIB with twin 50hp outboards on Newport Bay so we could get our water fix in after 3 weeks on land. Rina played race photographer and shot over 1000 pictures at the WD Shock Memorial Regatta, where Lido 14's and S20's carved up the bay under rain threatened skies. John and partner Kurt Wiese took top honors in two days of sailing. Full results at www.lido14.org. Later we visited with daughter Megan in San Diego and spent a night with Kurt and Susan, who have spent much time on Carinthia over the past year. Congrats to Kurt for getting his 100 ton captains license on Friday after a grueling 14 straight days of classes. (Continued...)

Northern Hemisphere Here We Come!

Allan — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:25:01 -0600

After a gala party on Carinthia last night and not so sad goodbye's today with Dietmar, Suzanne, Aaron and Lauren, we are headed to the airport and Ensenada to pick up Follow You... (View Post...)