Vagari's Cruise

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.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Cruisers Life

By 6:30 AM Monday the 27th the autopilot tech support guy confirmed that I had a sticking clutch and the only fix was to send the unit back. I have a “work around” that I think we can live with. Also both Sunday amateur weather forecasters said it was going to blow like stink from Tuesday to Saturday. Thirty to forty knots is not for these cruisers so we decided to take a road trip to the old silver mining town of Alamos. It is only 170 south of here. Many cruisers have recommended the trip so by 9:00 AM Monday we were headed to Alamos.

The Jesuits began construction of the mission in Alamos in 1613. In early 1683 silver was discovered. It turned out to be a whole lot of silver and didn’t run out until the early 1900’s. A large town was built to accommodate the 30,000 people that lived here. It became a ghost town when the mines closed until the 1950’s when some gringos started to buy and restore some of the beautiful homes. I won’t bore you with the history. The pictures explain why so many people enjoy Alamos
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