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Shots over the bow

The favorite view for crew IstaboaGoing back through some archived images while working on a photo book (for personal enjoyment), we came upon a lot of these shots taken from the pilot house and over the bow. A lot! It’s made us realize how fortu…

Report From Onboard Jenny

Please do not include the following text in a reply. ============================== ======================Thursday , February 10, 2011 6:21:01 PM Location: Rodriguez Island Latitude is 25 degrees 3.384 minutes north. Longitude is 80 degrees 26.9…

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Mazatlan to Puerto Vallarta

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…

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…

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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…

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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 …