FROM THE TOP
21 January 2013 | 15 40'N:88 58'W, RIO DULCE
Photo by Mike
The topping lift project is finito. Not a replacement cable as the original, but a solution using line and with eye splices at each end done by Lee and all installed by Mike. Yeah!
Hanging from the spinnaker halyard, 65 ft. above the deck, for more than 20 minutes, when all was in place and complete, Mike finally took a look around.
MONDAY: We traveled by boat tonight for a farewell cocktail hour on Mario's dock, overlooking the Rio Dulce. A bittersweet evening as we have fallen in love with this wonderland, but now msut look forward to the next part of the passage tomorrow.