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We made a good night passage with a
full moon and a lumpy sea, but a record time of 13 hours with a good
south east wind pushing us along from Conception. Our first sight
of the mainland was the 'goats teats' mountain of San Carlos. |
| This was the first time we took
crew, we met Michael in Conception and he was eager to do his first long
sea passage with us. He was so excited he did much more than his
fair share of watches because 'he didn't want to miss anything'.
It was certainly good to have someone to share watches with and get a
longer sleep! |
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Beautiful San Carlos marina with the
backdrop of the mountains, we spent 3 days in a slip preparing our boat
for dry storage, which we thought was quite reasonable at $17 US a day
considering the very nice swimming pool and facilities. |
| We were greeted at the dry storage
by this little fellow, who could obviously spot a pair of softies for
miles. We were this strays meal ticket the whole time we were
there, and quickly charmed another boat, once we left! We nick
named her 'Chiquita' and spoilt her rotten and promised her a boat ride
if she was still there when we came back in December. |
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Hauling out the water was very
uneventful and done very professionally. The dry storage is 2km
from the marina so your boat is put on this trailer and then driven down
the road! |
| Here she is being driven down the
highway!! This was a very strange event as we rode down to the storage
area on the trailer with Seafire passing cars on the way. |
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And here she is in the dry storage
yard, which you can see has good security with the razor wire fence all
around. |
| The four lane boulevard of San
Carlos became our new home on land whilst we waited for our flights back
to England. The community is quite 'American' so you can pretty
much get anything you want here. |
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We stayed at this establishment in
San Carlos just a couple of Km south of Marina Seca and can not say
enough about what a great place it was and how little it cost.
Departamentos
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