Welcome to Vagari’s 7th winter of sailing. We have put 8,000 miles under Vagari’s keel during those cruises but this year like last year won’t be a high mileage year. We just don’t have the lust for the long cruises that we did when we started cruising but we still enjoy living on board and sailing near our homeport. Welcome aboard! We hope you enjoy our blog. Your comments, questions and suggestions are appreciated and encouraged.

Saturday, November 12, 2005

1st letter to the kids. Spring of 04 shakedown cruise

Hola,

We haven’t figured out the phone or the email system yet so we haven’t been good communicators. Our only attempt was a ham radio/phone patch Tuesday morning to Joe’s home, no answer or answering machine then the same to Kim’s where we think we left a brief A-OK on the machine.

I am going to JC’s Café Wednesday morning and try and send this email

Getting the boat back together has taken a full week and we are not done yet. We did get out for a long day sail on Sunday. Other than the head breaking and a great sail in warm water/wind with incredible scenery up and down the coast, the highlight was a finback whale crossing under the boat. We saw it approaching and it went right under the boat and surfaced just as it cleared Vagari.

As soon as the wind comes up Wednesday morning we plan to take off for a one or two night trip up the coast. We will try and call you via the ham/phone patch Wednesday and again on Thursday if we don’t get you on the first try.

We are both doing well and once we figure out the in’s and out’s of Vagari we will have time to work on the communications and computers.

Love,

Dad and Mom

P.S. I miss talking with you Kim and Joe. Once a mother, always a mother. Maybe once we get the e-mail figured out, it will be better. Take care of yourselves until I return to give all the motherly advice you know you need. I love you.. All of you.

Note: I have not been able to send email from Mexico until yesterday. My Earthlink was the problem. Still is. But I sent myself mail using Rhea’s Hotmail account yesterday so I going to send all of our updates to family.

Stan 7/1/04

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