vital voyage rascal4p

nelly1508
May 3, 2017
8 min read

agreement.. no agreement..non compliance … find a guy-girl who manages resources like him for you: http://www.voyageoftherascal.com/blog/how-to-retire-at-25-and-live-the-dream You learn from pilot charts and other sailors that there are certain parts of the pacific mexico that are very dangerous, for instance, and you plan around weather patterns to avoid them. People love telling pirate / bandit stories, but the truth is that almost everyone you meet along the way is awesome and friendly. Especially if you stay away from big cities, there is nothing to be worried about. Trust in the world! No Power Loading! Boaters should winch their craft onto boat trailers instead of powering their boat onto the trailer. Boat ramps throughout the state are being badly damaged by boaters who power their boats onto the boat trailer. The strong current created by the boat's propeller causes severe erosion and wash out at the end of the ramp. This condition, in turn, can also cause damage to boat trailers. http://www.voyageoftherascal.com/blog/how-to-retire-at-25-and-live-the-dream stop by stop as found and used by voyage of rascal..print and keep on-U!!: see also ports and boat ramp maps bellingham -washington state..west-port (west-haven state park)..winchester bay (oregon..oregaon dunes national recreation area..)..Eureka.. sanfrancisco (california) avoid big-cities!! santa cruz..port hueneme (oxnard)..sandiago..ensenada..(baja california)..lapaz..mazatlan..puerto vallarta…(sailed past)..manzanillo..acapulco!!...(sailed past) ..bahaia pricipal..supplys??...in the state of OAXACA..puerto Angel.. Crucicita..supplys.. direct turn south (no longer following the coast) to puerto villamiL..on the island of Isla Isabela.. then south onword and east avoiding the coast of guatamala..peru..most of chile..to land at..Puerto Montt (chile)...take note of months (weather season) traveled.. freshman friend met 2006..august..2014..lapaz.. spend hurricane season in the Sea of Cortez..9-24-14: Cabo is a convenient airport for visitors to fly in and out of, so I've stayed pretty close to it. It has officially been hurricane season since June.. Hurricane Odile 9/15/2014 2 Comments Over the course of the past 24 hours, the Baja peninsula has been hit with a major category 3 hurricane (125+mph), a tornado, and an earthquake. The Rascal was anchored in La Paz, a sheltered harbor that has seen tropical storms before, but never a storm of this magnitude (only two other major hurricanes have hit the peninsula since they began to keep records in 1960). .. Puerto Vallarta 12-24-14 1-30-15 Puerto Escondido During my time in PE, a friendly Canadian man by the name of Jim swam out to the boat to say hi. He was spending a few months in town and had spent a good portion of his life delivering boats all around the Caribbean. We shot the shit for a while, drank a handful of beers, and decided that he would join me on the day sail down to Puerto Angel - about 30 miles down the coast. great stop last stop then left following coast here went south from OAXACA 1-23-15 This new route has a number of advantages: 1) It will save me time - instead of 7-8 months more sailing, I'll hopefully complete the rest of the voyage to Chile in 3-4 months. 2) It will save me money - I would've spent a lot of cash goofing off in Central America for months on end. 3) It will allow me to reach Chile before winter arrives in the Southern Hemisphere - I won't lie, I've been looking at pictures of people back home skiing pow and its slowly killing me. I can't wait to spend a winter in Chile. 4) It's a safer time of year to make each of these passages - there are fewer incidences of high winds and gales in the southern ocean before the winter months. Most of the passages I've made thus far have only been a couple hundred miles, so these longer passages will be an interesting test. I'll need to manage food and provisioning for extended periods. I´ll need to keep the boat moving in the right direction for weeks on end, without help from anyone else. I'll likely run into some nasty weather along the way and there will be no port where I can stop and hide. These are all risks that I'm ready to accept and I'm confident that I have the proper skills, knowledge, and equipment to make the sail safely and in good style. While I'm away from land, I'll have contact with my brother via sat-text for weather routing and he'll be able to update my location-tracking page as well. If you're interested, you'll be able to follow my progress day-by-day as I inch my way south towards the promised land. Thus begins the next chapter in the Voyage of the Rascal. I'll give ya'll an update when I get to the 2-16-15 After a fun week of exploring, eating, and relaxing with my family, it was time to get back down to business. The weather was my main concern, and I knew the high winds of the Gulf of Tehuantepec would give me a very narrow window for departure. The forecast looked abysmal for the next week, so I knew I would have plenty of time to prep the boat and buy provisions. I accomplished a lot of preventative maintenance over the course of the week and, with the weather window fast approaching, I started to go through the motions of checking out of Mexico, which involves visiting a couple of offices around town, paying various bills, and notifying the officialdom of your intentions. On the final day, I went to the ice factory to buy a couple huge blocks of their coldest, hardest ice, and bought as much cheese and meat as my ice box could possibly contain. That afternoon, once I was all squared away, the lovely ladies of immigration came to officially "check me out". 2-17-15 vcomment Dwyer, great blog and the trip looks amazing! Brings me back to my trip down the coast of Mexico with fellow BUSTer Justin Lyon on his boat The Gypsy. Did you happen to check out the Tipsy Blowfish while you were in Huatulco? It was our favorite expat watering hole while we were waiting out the Tehuantepecers (those bastards!) before crossing the gulf. Anyway man, well done on the solo voyage and best of luck! Eddie Galapagos! http://www.voyageoftherascal.com/blog/archives/01-2015 2-27-15:made it! The Galapagos Islands (and Isla Isabela specifically) are an incredible place. They’re a tropical island paradise. They’re an enormous open-air-zoo, overflowing with all sorts of exotic creatures. They’re a little nook of Ecuadorian food, culture, and hospitality. The last couple of weeks have been absolutely delightful. e Three Phases There were three distinct phases of the passage, with very different weather dominating each. The first phase was in the SE trade winds and they were very, very consistent (10-25 kts from the SSE, SE, or ESE). The only trouble was that my destination was to the SE which meant that I was bashing into the wind and the waves for the first two weeks. It was also quite cloudy and the decks were awash with rain and waves 24 hours per day. You can imagine how that might be frustrating, but I was well aware of what I was in for and it was actually a very productive portion of the trip in that I managed well over 100 miles per day for 10 days straight. In fact, I went several days without adjusting my course or sails at all. It was definitely rough sailing and I’m fortunate that I’m not the sort to get seasick, because the Rascal and I really took a beating during the first part of the trip. There isn’t much you can do around the boat in such conditions, and I managed to polish off lots of books from the relative comfort of my pilot berth. There were one or two days in the middle that felt particularly hateful, with gusts up in the 30s. 4-17-15 ended up burning 25 gallons of diesel during the trip, which equates to about 140 miles per gallon. Pretty respectable compared with what it would've required to fly or drive a similar distance. There was one point, ten days into the voyage when I was 967 miles from both the Galapagos and Easter Island, and 1100 miles from continental South America (the Peruvian coast). I dare say thats about as far as I'll ever get from land. A thousand miles from nowhere. I also crossed the Tropic of Capricorn during this trip, which is the southernmost circle of lattitude where it is possible for the sun to be directly overhead. As you travel further south, there is never a day (even in the height of summer) when the sun is overhead. I crossed the Tropic of Cancer (the northern equivalent of the Tropic of Capricorn) in Mexico last June. Picture Next Steps I've been in “passage mode” for a long time. After a couple months of long sails, the Rascal and I are both pretty well worked. I'm going to spend the next few weeks making repairs to the Rascal, devising a master plan for my time in Chile, and learning how to walk again. I'm planning to stay in the Puerto Montt area for that timeframe, because it’s the easiest place to get boat parts and there are other voyagers here who have lots of valuable info about the territory to the south. It is the tail end of summer in the southern hemisphere and I’m thinking about doing some traveling around on land while the weather is still warm and pleasant. My general plan for the winter is to try and find a tasty looking fjord or volcano (of which there are several!) with a snug anchorage at the base of it to see if I can’t manage a ski decent or two from the boat. I’ve got lots of logistics to figure out first (skiing/sailing partners, timing, anchoring equipment, locations, etc) and a lot of my plans will be heavily dependent on weather. At the moment, I’m feeling quite proud of myself for having made it this far and I don’t have any intentions of diving into anything too ambitious in the southern fjords just yet. Picture There is much talk of nature and the preservation of wild places, but it seems to me that there are few places more wild and well preserved than the vastness of the ocean. Just sitting there and watching the waves roll past, with the birds wheeling around me, I'm totally humbled and awed by the beauty that exists out there. I'm awfully fortunate to have had the opportunity to be totally and fully immersed in it, in a place so completely unsullied by the hand of man. It's a feeling that is tough to come by in our day and age and tougher still in places that are crowded with people and things. Feeling that peace and being able to truly enjoy the simplicity of life and the grandeur of the world is a very valuable thing and I have never felt it so deeply as I did during this past month. The world is a beautiful place, and I'm a damn lucky man. I saw the Southern Cross for the first time and it really blew me away. You're so far from light pollution and the air was so clear that it seemed there were millions of extra stars that hadn't existed before. The milky way looked like a torrent of whitewater racing across the heavens. I'd spend hours laying in the cockpit gazing up into the heavens. .. KOb: print best of last week at new session start if jfrs paswrd is lotte-coffee and yours is Leev… u can guess what her next half of years will be.. drugs..