Tyee3 - Catana 431: SailBlogs

Going broke trying to save money...

Lucie — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:59:59 -0500

Well, here we are again spending more money on our beautiful boat. It is pretty cheap labour here in Colombia so we thought that it would be a good place to replace what we have of teak decks. We were quite lucky in meeting with Alvaro the first day in Cartagena, it turn out that he had just finished replacing the teak on Simpathica, a Catana 47. After admiring his work, we decided that we should also get him to do ours. We also decided to get him to build us more storage space in the starboard hull. The work is coming along good. We also got some new cockpit cushions and some other sewing work done here and tomorrow morning, we have to pick up Estuardo who will clean and wax the hulls. We can wait to get it all done so we can leave for the San Blas and enjoy the boat with our next visitors who will arrive in El Porvenir on November 8th. (Continued...)

Aruba

Lucie — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:48:17 -0500

Well we are finally leaving Aruba. It has been great hanging at the beach kiteboarding. It's definetely a good place to learn with shallow waters and the wind howling everyday. (Continued...)

Trip to Canada

Lucie — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:04:41 -0500

Just a quick note to let everyone know that we are in Montreal visiting with my family as my father is very sick and in the hospital. We will know more in the next few days as for his condition. We left the boat at the Renaissance Marina in Aruba and John will probably return in the next week. (View Post...)