Sailing Blogs

For those of you who are here on F dock and follow along...here is Pachuca's Blog ...http://pachucaroundtheworld.blogspot.com/.

Robert's blog (Pachuca)is fun to read. His blog is very informative and he gives a lot of information about his travels. He is an aussie with a mission: "to circumnavigate."

Another one to keep your eye on is...http://sailingcamelot.us/. This is the website of Lori and her husband..if you go into Svendsens and meet the gorgeous woman with the accent and the tremendous smile..you've found Lori. They are also getting ready to cruise in style later this summer.

One more to read is the adventures of Sandra and Ken onboard "Aquila" at http://www.sailblogs.com/member/aquilapacific/?xjMsgID=59241. They went and ran across the equator from San Francisco to New Zealand and back again. Theirs was a great one to have followed.

If you have any others that are good to follow, old or new, let me know.

Neil has super reinforced the dodger now. The weather was in our favor the last few days. The deck shower is done! We have started on making the lazerettes more favorable in bad weather...ie. adding fiberglass edging (like a spill guard) along with some netting, thanks to Barry. It is a real pain to try and retrieve things from the engine compartment after a good heel. We have been going through all of our stores and inventory and realize that we have plenty of screws, bolts, misc. hardware to last quite a while. Everything is slowly being organized and put into its permanent home. Lists are being made of what we have, where it is at, and what we still need to get.

Now the rain is coming in again along with a cold patch that will last for a week. Darn! Reading "Pachuca's" blog talking about 80 degrees and sun all day is certainly not helping cure the itch to go. However we are happy to be helping another fellow sailor get his vessel all set up in addition to ours. It looks like Jose's prediction of 3 months is slightly off, but our "2 weeks left" is just not going to cut it. We are re-fitting in the winter and spring months..Delays are bound to happen.

The boat show is this next week at Jack London Square on Oakland's waterfront. I heard, from Michael, that the Americas Cup will be there! I have seen this when I was a kid living in Australia and remember how they rubbed it in every year they "beat the Yanks."(and vice versa...forget the Kiwis! haha). Having dual citizenship, it made for more entertainment, for me anyways. (I was the Aussie, and the Yank!).

New clients(now new friends), will be joining us along with Jamie, Neils dad. We are looking forward to "talking shop" with all of the contacts we have. These fine people of West Marine and Svendsens have become good friends. It will be nice to see some of them who we haven't seen since we moved our boat over to Pt. Richmond.(and some we get to see all the time..either way it should be fun).

Jamie, after just coming back from Mexico, this next week, and seeing his newly purchased boat, will either be stoked or ......I am thinking, though, that he will have loved the experience, and will have a list of things to look for. With Neil as the guide, it will be quite the adventure.

Now...to get back to work!