Two Wheeled

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Ouest and Lowe are feeling the love. It’s really great to have the family here. It has always lifted our spirits to be with family, but now we can see how much it affects our kids. Especially Ouest. She seems to blossom when she is around them. New words come … Read More

Grand Arrival

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You know, I was thinking the other day that I may just be becoming a sailor after all. Not because I am any good at sailing, in fact now that I’m on a monohull I think my sailing abilities have regressed to the point that I’d be considered a beginner … Read More

Uncle Arrival

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Uncle JJ is here. He’s never met Lowe and hasn’t seen Ouest in a year, so there were some pretty dramatic changes in store for him. Ouest is currently sizing him up and seems to think he is some sort of bear that shouldn’t be messed with. A day or … Read More

Grammy Arrival

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Grammy is here. And all is right in the world again. Ouest took about ten seconds to warm up to “Leelee” and spent the next two hours trying to impress her with her jumping ability, her climbing ability, her spitting ability, and her giggling ability. Lowe impressed her just by … Read More

Barra Arrival

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Barra de Navidad for Christmas. Fitting. My mom arrives tomorrow, brother the day after, and Ali’s parents a day after that. We left Tenacatita early this morning and motored the short fifteen miles around the corner in calm seas to Barra. The Barra entrance is a little nerve wracking. There … Read More

An Amazing Bay

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This morning I tackled the gremlin that’s been taunting me in the engine compartment since we arrived. The problem remains the shaft coupler. I’ve been calling it a tranny coupler, but have since been corrected. The problem has been that when I back down hard in reverse the shaft is … Read More

Ouest is Two

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Big birthday today! So we started the morning off with some boat work. Because no day, birthdays included, is complete without a couple hours of bloody knuckles in the engine. But soon enough the engine work was put on the back burner and the celebration kicked off. We blew up … Read More

Dolphins in the Bay

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We set out this morning for Tenacatita. But not before raising the anchor by hand thanks to a dead windlass battery. I later discovered that the battery combiner wasn’t working and I was able to just bolt the two wires together for a temporary fix. The dinghy davits, which it … Read More

Hanging on the Hook

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Spent another day solely on the boat. It’s amazing to me how we can pass an entire day in this small space without any problem whatsoever. Ouest is the only one who you would really expect to complain about it, but she seems completely content to be bobbing around at … Read More

Chamela

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We didn’t go anywhere today, not even off the boat. Perfect weather, a beautiful bay, and a tired and sick family made the decision to just lounge around on the boat an easy one. In fact we’ve been boat bound now for three days and don’t really mind it one … Read More

Ay-yee!

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There is no more difficult way to travel one hundred miles than to sail it. Riding bikes would have been a breeze. Jogging with Ouest on my shoulders, no problem. Sailing. My goodness, I’m beat. Didn’t get a lot of sleep last night. Ali was up with a crying Lowe … Read More

Lowe’s a Sailor

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Finally time to move on. We were ready this morning when the kids got up, and at eight-thirty, just half an hour behind schedule we were ready to take off. A couple of dock workers were there to throw off our lines and we could be on our way. The … Read More