Bigeye Tuna?
Our 4 days in Puerto Vallarta, or more specifically in Paradise Village Marina in Nuevo Vallarta, are not all spent fine-tuning The Formula. For one thing, we are running out [...]
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A Formula For Cruising – negotiated
The Captain may call himself a businessman, but he was first trained as an engineer. Engineers deal in facts, real time definitions and concrete formulas. Suggestions have no [...]
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An Acquired Taste
Pre-Hispanic people used powdered hot chiles as a weapon and a means of torture – a perfectly understandable use for such a nasty little creation, thinks The First Mate. This [...]
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First Mate Hung in Effigy a Second Time
Whatever was The First Mate thinking? How could she have been so wrong? — She believed that when they arrived in Cabo, they would finally start “cruising” which, defined [...]
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Estamos en Cabo San Lucas
Wednesday, January 14th – We will be leaving Ensenada this morning to sail to Cabo San Lucas. The sun shines down from a gorgeous blue sky. There is no wind ruffling anything [...]
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Vamos a México
Sunday, January 4th – The Captain arrives on Avante hitting the deck with both feet running. Tuesday, January 6th – The First Mate arrives on Avante, and [...]
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Wheels for The Dingbat
The First Mate has never had kind words for The Dingbat. Their antagonistic relationship started with their very first meeting on a boat ramp off Shelter Island in San Diego i [...]