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Showing posts with label preparations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label preparations. Show all posts
Friday, 17 October 2014

Provisions in Mexico: Hard-to-find items

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Updated: October 22, 2014 & November 3, 2014 As boats congregate in San Diego,  preparing to head south to Mexico,  it seems timely ...
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Sunday, 25 August 2013

VANCOUVER to SAN FRANCISCO: Time ticking down... departure in 3 days (hopefully)

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Time is ticking. We are currently planning to leave for San Francisco sometime Tuesday August 27th. (Of course, this is subject to last-mi...
Thursday, 18 July 2013

PROJECTS FOR JULY/AUGUST

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Time is ticking for our late-August departure south. We have many projects we are hoping to complete. Some are important; others are ...
Sunday, 23 June 2013

Haul-out in Nanaimo: Good experience with Nanaimo Boatyard at Stones Marina

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We hauled out at Nanaimo Boatyard (“NB”) at Stones Marina. Our first time at this boatyard, we had heard good reviews from friends, the...
Tuesday, 28 May 2013

CONDO SOLD... Our Great Purge

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Guess we gotta sail south now... Boxes for locker... boxes for boat... stuff for donation Condo emptied and cleaned... Goodbye to o...
Sunday, 28 April 2013

Hydrovane installation and first use

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Our new Hydrovane is now installed and (thus far) works great! Our Hydrovane " Fin " installed on Pelagia First try -- ...
Saturday, 23 March 2013

Pelagia sails again -- Mast re-stepped (finally)!

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Sailing home after re-stepping mast (Point Grey and North Shore mountains in distance) After way too many months without mast and ri...
Tuesday, 12 March 2013

This is not a baby step...

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Our moves towards sailing away (into the sunset? to Mexico? ...) have not always been large. Some may even think we've been making...
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Thursday, 28 February 2013

Mast install? "No" says the weather...

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We were scheduled to re-install the mast with new standing rigging, LED trilight, spreader lights, etc this past Monday (Feb 25th). To do so...
Thursday, 21 February 2013

Spiffing up Pelagia: New upholstery

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Among many upgrades completed/in progress/planned for Pelagia, some fall into the "spiffing up" category. The upholstery in the m...
Sunday, 23 September 2012

Dismasted!

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A new type of powerboat? On purpose! We brought Pelagia up the Fraser River to Steveston to pull the mast. It h...
Wednesday, 25 April 2012

The best laid plans... Change!

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The best laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft agley... (Robert Burns) As happens for so many offshore "dreamers", we h...
Friday, 27 January 2012

So many projects, so little time...

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At least, it seems that way! Last year (2011) we took care of some large ones: 3 new sails; new wind/speed/depth instruments; new chartplo...
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