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Cetacea in Australia

12 September 2023
Tony Wessendorff
In March 2023, we flew back to Cetacea in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. We had a bottom job (new paint on the bottom) done in the shipyard. We left PNG in May sailing to Indonesia. Half way there, we had a generator heat exchanger go out, so we ended up sailing to Darwin, Australia, which was the closest place we could get repairs made. We found that we got water in our fuel (in PNG) and it caused other problems as well. We got the engine and generator problems fixed and took off for Indonesia again, only to have more problems. So we boomeranged back to Darwin. We have been in Darwin for almost 4 months now, fixing one thing, only to have another thing break, fixing that thing, only to have something else break. And, each time, it takes weeks to get the parts shipped in. But, we have thoroughly enjoyed our time in Darwin!

Finally, we think we are ready to leave again, scheduled for Friday September 13th, crossing our fingers! We do not keep up with this blog site any longer. We do sporadic email blogs now. If you would like to get on the email blog list, just send me an email (GailCorriganW@gmail.com). But, I will update our position and add at least an annual note on where we are on this blog site.

More Later, much later
G&T
Vessel Name: Cetacea
Vessel Make/Model: Cheoy Lee 53' Motorsailor
Hailing Port: Houston, Texas, USA
Crew: Tony Wessendorff & Gail Corrigan
About:
After 25 fun filled years as an environmental consulting firm owner, Gail sold her company and she and her husband, Tony the CFO, retired to go sailing on their boat Cetacea (see photo gallery). Cetacea was in St. [...]
Extra: P.S. Cetacea is the higher order biological name for whales and dolphins. Whales and dolphins are cetaceans. And our boat is a big fat whale of a boat, hence the name Cetacea! Not to mention that Tony & Gail, like all sailors, love whales.
Cetacea's Photos - Side Trip to Boquete - coffee farm tour
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Coffee trees.
Coffee tree fruit (red colored) and inside beans (tan colored).
Hopper machine that removes the outer shell of the coffee fruit.
Sieves used to sort the beans by size.
Machine that uses air to blow the beans and sort them by density.
Drying machinery.
Final sorting done by hand for perfect looking beans. (photo of a photo on the wall as they were not harvesting when we were there).
Roasting oven used to make three different blends: light, medium and dark roast.
Light, medium and dark roast coffee beans shown from left to right.
All the different types of coffee tastes and aromas - similar to wines!
Tony and Hans in the coffee tasting room.
Main street of Boquete - just a small mountain village.
Main street of Boquete.
Boquete countryside where lots of expats are living.
Local dress on the streets of Boquete.
 
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