We are getting ready to depart Guam. We came with hope of finding a little more in the way of support infrastructure for sailboats. Having been here for a couple weeks now we have found Guam to be great and flush with the normal US style hardware stores and the like. You can get most anything for a power boat as well. Sailboat specific stuff and services in particular are a little more organic.

If you are a do it yourselfer and don't need to haul out you can probably get anything done here. The crane rates have been getting expensive for haul outs and some of the local boaters have indicated that it may not be reasonable to expect to get a crane haul out arranged unless you have a lot of time.

On the up side you can get anything from the states fast and with cheap US post shipping and no customs or duty of course. We have taken the opportunity to do services on all of the diesels, the battery bank, and a bunch of other things. As always we want to enjoy the place we're at, not just work on the boat there, so we are looking at another week before we're really ready to head on.

One of the great attractions of the place is the Marianas Yacht Club and all of the great people it attracts. One of them is Masa San on the sailboat Nuk. Nuk is a Yamaha cruiser, I didn't even know they made cruising yachts. Masa has sailed Nuk all over the South Pacific. Masa San runs a Japanese weather net on the HF radio and tells us that two more Japanese yachts are due this week.