We left Mazatlan last Sunday morning at 7:50 am with little wind and a good 3 feet of water under the boat. The run out to the ocean wasn't a problem even though the tide was still coming in and provided some currents to deal with. We to…
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Report From Onboard Jenny
Wednesday, February 09, 2011 7:07:45 PMLocation: Boot Key HarborThe boat position was not recorded. No recent weather observation is available. Bottom clean and propeller shiny. Laundry done. Water loaded. Dinghy onboard. Motorcycle onboard. Provisi…
The good life in Mazatlan.
The good life continues in Mazatlan. We’ve added a location map to the top of the blog that will have our current (and past) locations as we travel around. Thanks to Eric & Sherrel at www.sailsarana.com for the code snips.We use a Dell mini desktop com…
Adventures of the Mystery "Campervan"
The South Island Exploration Begins Bright and early on the morning of Feb 1/11, you find Glen and I waiting at the top of the dock for our taxi to take us to the Auckland airport where we will be whisked off, by Jet Star Air, down to Christchur…
Boat Work and People Play
I can’t believe how quickly time goes by when you are busy (and having fun). Here we are at the end of January and I have only written our adventures down once. Guess I’m just getting lazy, but also, how exciting can it be for anyone else to rea…
Since we’re not doing anything interesting…
Waitin on weather and it looks like it’s caught in a short clocking loop of south to north, which means we continue our linger.But, as we say when it’s so…. life is good.Did find this interesting video that has nothin to do with anything. But… inte…
Puerto Vallarta
We arrived safe and sound and are in our permanent slip in the Paradise Village Marina, Puerto Vallarta. The trip was pretty good except for an occasional large set of swells coming from the Pacific side and stern of the boat. More later…
Envoy’s plans for 2011.
SUMMARY OF 2010 AND THOUGHTS ON ANCHORINGWe had a great 252 days aboard Envoy in 2010 and cruised about 1,800NM.After we left Marmaris the only major technical problem we had was the failure of the main gearbox in Crete. This was repaired in about two …
Displacement Speed Beats Planing Speed … Again
We spent Christmas this year in Desolation
Sound (map
of area). The area is so popular in the summer that Kenmore
Air has regular float-plane service to one of the anchorages there at Prideaux
Haven (pictured above). That’s way too busy for us–w…
Puerto Vallarta
Tomorrow morning we will depart for Puerto Vallarta. This is a 184 mile trip south from Mazatlan. This trip will take from 23 to 26 hours depending on sea conditions and weather. We will leave here at 0800 and head out to the Mazatlan entran…
