Adventures of Hiatus: SailBlogs

Hiatus Wrap Up

Heather and Kent — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:26:37 -0500

We came up with a few bullet points from our trip to wrap up the Hiatus blog. Enjoy! (Continued...)

Back in Portland

Heather — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:53:24 -0500

Hiatus is still in Texas for sale but we are now home in Portland, OR. In just a few days we found hurricane insurance for the boat, bought a used car (Subaru wagon), packed everything we owned into it and headed for the Pacific Northwest. With over 2,000 miles to drive we stopped to enjoy the company of friends in Texas, Colorado Spring and Denver. (Continued...)

Back in the USA!

Heather — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:52:43 -0500

As Kent mentioned in his position reports, we had great wind our first day out of Isla Mujeres, Mexico. Unfortunately it shut off and we motored the other four days of our trip. The passage was quite uneventful but it was still very nice to have crew so that everyone got 6 hours of sleep each night (or at least in theory could try to get 6 hours sleep each night). Coming into Texas is a bit crazy, there are hundreds of oil rigs offshore to avoid and lots of shipping traffic - we love our AIS receiver and radar which help us locate where everything is and where it may be going! (Continued...)