so last night mary had done a great job asking me about “why i loved Catalina” questions. pretty much the only thing i could come up with that i did not love about Catalina was the leaking windows. they are not actually made by Catalina but on the 440 they are quite large and seem to not always been manufactured optimally. on palapa the forward port and aft port window still leak. ...
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we took our time getting under way this am with aimee creating a new breakfast delight. this one is the gaucamole egg wrap. aimee starts with a thin egg omelet, this one had cheese and basil and a few other things. then wraps it burrito style around fresh gucaomole. not surprisingly it was delicious! we need to make sure we keep getting these great avocados! around noon we finally got under...
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well another full day today. in fact this may be a record of 3 countries and 4 stops. it was finally not raining and after checking email we got under way for our 3nm trip to petite st vincent. aimee wanted to stop at an “island” on the way. i was fine with this but the “island was not exactly what i was expecting, more like spot of sand. when we arrived there was already a...
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last night we had another MAJOR rain come through. we had towels out at the known leak places but always seem to miss something. the forecast was for more rain for the rest of the day so we decided to hunker and do some internet and wait for the weather to improve. we where just barely able to get the internet with the 12dbi 2Watt transceiver aimee had gotten me but alas this only works if the...
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we started the day with a delicious avocado egg meal. we have been getting great avocados here that a giant and delicious. after breakfast we tried to dingy back to our island with the camera to get some photo’s of our rocket but alas the sea was too rough to even make it to the far side of the lagoon let alone through the pass and out to the other island. the rocket is on peteti tabac...
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so today we aimee started the day with a swim to our little island to do yoga on the beach followed by a hike up the mountain. you can just barley see her in the island photo so i added a blow up as well! after the yoga event and breakfast we headed out of the not very good anchorage to this inviting little island for our beach fun day. the Anchorage off the island turned out to be even...
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