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Celebrating Ashika's ArrivalGuaymas started celebrating almost immediately upon our arrival. I'm convinced that they saw us coming and threw the master switch on the town's celebratory fireworks. Good on them. We deserved a hearty round of applause for making a 4000 mile round trip to Panama without strangling eachother or losing any dogs overboard.
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Topolabambo is so Fun to SayWe had two glorious days of sailing on our way to Guaymas from Topolabambo. 10 or 15 knots from the south, blue skies, cool breezes, magnificent. I bet you think that since we are travelling around in a sailboat that we sail all the time. Wrong. There are sailors who are more persistant about sailing than we are and they will wallow around happy to wait for wind or just not go anywhere until there is wind. They are thrifty and will probably be cruising for a long time. That's because there is precious little wind out there, and when it does blow it's usually to much from the pointy end of the boat. But purists will take all wind in stride and chant "sail sail sail, at all costs". We have a 3 knot rule: when the wind can't blow us to our destination (or close to it) turn on the engine. Our chant is more like "little or no wind, turn on the engine" or maybe it's "we can't get to our anchorage before dark, turn on the engine" or "get me the frack out of this storm, turn on the engine".
U-Turns and Flashlight WarsTopolabambo, it must be a great place to have such a great name. It just rolls around on your tongue and tumbles over the lips. But it would be a quite a journey to Topo from Maz land. Dois's Aunt Katie used to say “it ain't an adventure until you've made a couple of U-turns”. Under that definition, we have had a great adventure.
Monkey BusinessAfter setting Ashika's anchor in Mazatlan's old harbor, the wind changed to a more westerly direction. It was coming through a low lying bit of land between the light-house hill and the city. There are two things wrong with that wind direction; 1. Major sandblasting work is going on fishing boat hulls blowing vile and probably poisonous dust from old copper bottom paint right into Ashika's open hatches. And 2. and maybe more vile; there is a raw sewage treatment plant just beyond the sandblasting work spewing fumes from giant steel vats. Prime ocean front property... what were they thinking when they decided to put the sewage plants there?
My eyes and nose had started to drip like a leaky faucets. Now I understood why we were the only boat in the anchorage. |
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