Sunday, January 23rd, 2011
Unbelievable as this is going to sound… it is not another warm and sunny morning! We are sitting here on Caprice in pea soup fog! As heavy and grey and cold as at home! We are shocked and aghast! Dan is even threatening to turn on the heater, as he refuses to put on warm clothes because, after all, he is in supposedly sunny, warm Mexico! We hope this will lift soon as departing in this would not be a good thing! Also, unfortunately, we have a malfunctioning toilet (not again!!!) and Tom is going to tackle that with his toilet tools! So, we decide a warm breakfast is in order… and we hope that we will be in sunshine before long.
Hooray, the sun is shining, the fog is gone, and the toilet is fixed! Off we go… under very pleasant conditions. We are motoring along with calm seas and heading North West to La Paz which is approximately 230 nautical miles away. We plan on two days and two nights, arriving by mid day on Tuesday!
After dinner, the winds come up and we are rocking, rolling and bouncing around with loud booms as the waves beat the bottom of the boat between the hulls. Doing anything is difficult… sleeping, eating, and watching. Conditions stay the same all night and I am busy with my worry beads!
But the good news is: Tom fixed the toilet!
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- Caprice
- 1291 Sanderling Island, Pt. Richmond, CA 94801, United States
- Dan and Carol Seifers
Crazy
Crazy Caprice, or what
Like is so good to us. At 65, after 15 years of retirement, my wife, Carol and I have everything one could want Good health (for old folks), loving children ( one son and his wife Jenny is marvelous), wonderful grandchildren (one age 6 and one age 4, who have a remarkable ability to totally exhaust us in about 4 - 6 hours), a good home. Wonderful friends. What more could one want?
Then we were casually cruising in the Delta ( area between Sacramento and San Francisco) last summer with the Richmond Yacht Club Cruising Group. Life was serene, life was comfortable, and then it happened - WHAM - we saw a cruising catamaran tied up at the Rio Vista marina with a sign in the window which listed its adventures. Starting in Australia, across to New Zealand, up to Tahiti, over to Hawaii and on the the West Coast. What an adventure!!! That’s when Carol started thinking about the possibility of buying a new boat (we already had a Gemini 34’ cruising catamaran - life was good). Then sailing in Sydney basin for a few months, then either shipping it to California or sailing it across the South Pacific to California. Is she CRAZY?
That started our CRAZY file.
Over the next few months, she started feeding me articles about Australia, New Zealand, and multihulls. She even subscribed to Multihull magazine and would place various articles about sailing in the South Pacific under my nose while I was reading the morning paper.
She became obcessed. A devil (Tasmanian?) had her. Then around Christmas time, the bug really bit me. We were perfectly happy with our boat, but the idea of getting a new one (with all the new toys) and visiting “down under” seemed very appealling. A friend loaned me all his books on New Zealand and Australia, and the more read, the more I becaume enthralled with the idea
Like is so good to us. At 65, after 15 years of retirement, my wife, Carol and I have everything one could want Good health (for old folks), loving children ( one son and his wife Jenny is marvelous), wonderful grandchildren (one age 6 and one age 4, who have a remarkable ability to totally exhaust us in about 4 - 6 hours), a good home. Wonderful friends. What more could one want?
Then we were casually cruising in the Delta ( area between Sacramento and San Francisco) last summer with the Richmond Yacht Club Cruising Group. Life was serene, life was comfortable, and then it happened - WHAM - we saw a cruising catamaran tied up at the Rio Vista marina with a sign in the window which listed its adventures. Starting in Australia, across to New Zealand, up to Tahiti, over to Hawaii and on the the West Coast. What an adventure!!! That’s when Carol started thinking about the possibility of buying a new boat (we already had a Gemini 34’ cruising catamaran - life was good). Then sailing in Sydney basin for a few months, then either shipping it to California or sailing it across the South Pacific to California. Is she CRAZY?
That started our CRAZY file.
Over the next few months, she started feeding me articles about Australia, New Zealand, and multihulls. She even subscribed to Multihull magazine and would place various articles about sailing in the South Pacific under my nose while I was reading the morning paper.
She became obcessed. A devil (Tasmanian?) had her. Then around Christmas time, the bug really bit me. We were perfectly happy with our boat, but the idea of getting a new one (with all the new toys) and visiting “down under” seemed very appealling. A friend loaned me all his books on New Zealand and Australia, and the more read, the more I becaume enthralled with the idea
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