11/20/2009, Still in Ensenada
OK, I'm back. Hopefully I won't get cut off this time.
We left for Port Townsend at the end of July after working almost straight from the end of April. Port Townsend was to correct electrical problems(we'd already melted all 6 house batteries and the inverter/charger. We also wanted to have all the standing and running rigging changed as 27 year old rigging can't be trusted for off shore cruising.
I won't bore you with the rest of the sordid details of what happened next. For that, go to our old blog at svzephyr.blogspot.com.
We arrived in Ensenada on Wednesday and headed for customs. We moved from window 1 to 5. Then back to 1. On to window 2, then 2B. Back to window 5 and finally over to window 4 where you push a button to see if you will have your boat searched of not. Luckily, we passed with a green light.
Off for the bank to get pesos and then to a street vendor for a wonderful lunch of tacos at all of 75 cents each. Not a bad deal. Back to Zephyr to get settled in. We'd been met by Jay off Moon Angel when we arrived. We'd originally met he and his wife Benita while we were wintering in Brownsville, Washington. a great couple that invited us over for homemade ice cream that evening. It turned into a wonderful evening of great fun and laughter.
On Thursday, Dana showed up. She's a boat that was made in Denmark by a great couple(Lene and Henrick) of cruisers. They have been out experiencing the world for several years. They've already gone around the cape at the South end of South America. We met them in Nanaimo Harbor up in British Columbia back in May as we headed North to Alaska. We seen them again while we were in San Diego a few days before and now they were back with us again. We took them down to customs and got them all checked in and then took off for lunch.
Ok, I have to post this before I get cut off again.
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11/20/2009, Ensenada, Mexico
For those of you that are just finding our blog, we have been posting at svzephyr.blogspot.com(no www is needed) for the past 18 months, ever since we moved on board our boat in Newport, Oregon. There you will find all the good, bad and horrible that we have gone through getting Zephyr ready for her big adventure. We bought our 1982 Shin Fa 458 cutter in Birch Bay, WA just over two years ago and moved on board at the end of April of last year. Since then we have been either working on her or moving from place to place learning as we go.
For an education on what it takes to make a boat right and ready ofr etended cruising, give our old website a try. It will be an education for those of who think that being on a boat and doing full time cruising is "living the dream". Many times, it is living the nightmare.
I've got to end now as I'm about to be logged out by the server.
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11/17/2009, Ensenada, Mexico
Here's another test
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11/17/2009, Ensenada, Mexico
This is just a test transmission from our SSB to make sure we can post a post to our blog site. Let's hope it works.
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11/17/2009, Ensenada, Mexico
Here's a test blog post to see if I can post to the blog while off shore. Sure hope this works.
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11/17/2009, San Diego, CA
We're just getting started on Sailblogs but have been blogging on Blogspot for the past 18+months. If you want to read what it has taken to get us to this point after all these months, go to svzephyr.blogspot.com.
Now we are ready to leave the good old United States for Mexico to continue our adventure. Once we are in Ensenada, I'll add more to our story and our adventures.
Stay tuned.
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