S/V Bluebottle

This one I definitely did not see in Quito, although I did see many absolutely stunning latino girls there, as everywhere in latin America!

"The mystery of just why an official Catholic radio station was issuing such a blasphemous QSL was solved in early June when Swedish DXer Lars Carlson (uncle of Sven Gonzalez) visited the station. The QSL was supposed to feature a photo of the Virgen de Quito statue, which overlooks Quito from El Panecillo Hill. However, the printer accidentally switched the photo with one from a calendar they were printing the same day. The QSLs were delivered to the station in a box, face down, and Sister Marta Elena never bothered to turn the QSLs over as she took them out of the box, filled them out, and then stuffed them in the envelope. When Lars showed Sister Marta Elena what was on the front of the card, and she realized that she had sent out hundreds of these, she immediately fell dead from shock. It is not known what happened to the remaining QSLs, but no more were received by DXers. During the confusion caused by Sister Marta Elena's untimely death, Lars was able to stuff about a dozen blank cards under his shirt, although a few nights later he lost them in a poker game with some Australians in Loja. The remaining blank QSL cards then disappeared for nearly three decades until they were found in 1992 in the archives at an anthropology museum in Perth, Australia, where they are currently on permanent display in the lobby."

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Vessel Name:	BLUEBOTTLE (ex-Aura)
Vessel Make/Model:	Lidgard 49' steel ketch
Hailing Port:	Hobart
Crew:	Adrienne Godsmark and Joe Blake
About:	We have completed our trans-Pacific voyage - from Panama to Hobart via Ecuador, Mexico, French Polynesia, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu and Bundaberg, and are now pausing before resuming land life. [...] More
Extra:	When the port authorities here were approached to renew our Panamanian boat registration, they said "You can't call your boat Aura - that's taken" so we decided to call her Bluebottle! If you know the Goons, you know of Bluebottle, that little twit! He was always getting into trouble with his thin [...] legs and his friend Eccles and always coming out of it alive and ready for a new adventure. More