well as some of you may have suspected there was more than just the mast and the Genset that caused me to come back to the marina a couple of days. in retrospect it would have sucked to be on anchor for the last couple of days due to the weather but that was not it either. the primary reason for the abort was karli was having second thoughts about continuing on the trip. i will let karli go into the detail but bottom line is she has started to focus her thoughts on her life going forward post sailing (what exactly is that?) and will be flying to bali this week to start begin this new "journey". ironically it was about a year ago we where in bali and the weather should be much better than the med and even the Canaries right now. This leaves me in a bit of a lurch but i have encouraged her to do what will make her happy. alas, apparently a never ending "plan" to sail the warm parts of the world is not every ones "dream", especially with a larry visit on the horizon :)

i will probably go ahead and do the trip to the canaries my self only about 500nm (half the baja peninsula) so i can get out of here sooner or later. did i mention there apparently is only one guy in Gibraltar that does stainless and he will not return my calls, so i will be doing the mast fix there. i will be looking to find some one to "share" the "dream" of crossing the atlantic to the beutiful Caribbean in the the next month or two so if you know anyone please send them my way!

cheers, roger