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I keep the record of my journey up to date on the map above. The March 2011 post follows below,
Well... I guess I will do this now and get it out of the way. Mainly so I can start sounding like an old salt and laying down the wisdom! Actually, it does feel nice to say I made it around the world singlehanded.
I missed my goal of putting less than 500 hours on the engine. Final tally from when I first bought the boat in Seattle, WA to here in Manzanillo is 680 hours. I will say that I would have made that 500 hour mark if I hadn´t done four months of backpacker charters in the San Blas. Had to use the engine there to stay on other´s schedules so I easily put over a hundred hours on the engine in those four months.
Right now I am working on getting the boat to somewhere in the Sea of Cortez and pulling it out of the water. The boat is now for sale but it is hard to sell a boat in Mexico so one plan is to refit the boat and sail it across the Pacific again to Australia or New Zealand. The boat is worth more in those places and of course this would be a great excuse for visiting the South Pacific again. Now that I have already done the South Pacific once, I know where to go. I would completely skip the much overdone ¨milk run¨route. On the other hand, if I sell the boat now, I would be that much closer to the next adventure... I could of course do the bash and get the boat to California but it is probably not much easier to sell a boat up there.
Anyways, we will see. I will keep the blog going with more reflections on the trip in the coming weeks. There will not be as much sailing anymore though. This last passage was it for awhile. La Paz is now hundreds of miles away and no longer thousands...
5 comments:
Congratulations to you and Pelican! What an awesome accomplishment. Maybe we'll run into you in Mexico this fall...
Congratulations on making it!
It is neat to see you realize your potential.
I love the idea that you'd sail the boat across the Pacific again, just after completing your first circumnavigation.
i'm with sara and heath. congrats and i'll either make you drink a bottle of champagne or bust it on the old pelican's pulpit. some sites of your modest beginnings.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/susan_hellein
Well done Mate not a bad effort for a yank, looking forward to seeing Pelican on the mooring in front of the lodge some time soon.
Way to go, Jonas. That is awesome.
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