April 5th, 2011
This just in from Dan: “Yes, Caprice is still on the hard in Abel Navales Bercovich Pino’s boat yard at La Paz. I am living aboard Caprice and it is really interesting to be in a third world country boatyard… junk yard dogs and all! Obviously OSHA is not here, but the workers are very good and the repairs are going along well, or as Abel says: “Amazing!” Over $50,000 in damage to our dear Caprice, but she will be “better and stronger than new” according to Abel!
Fortunately Enrique speaks fluent Spanish, so he helped communications between me and the workers yesterday. Tom is scheduled to arrive on Thursday… about the same time as we plan to launch Caprice. Then we will test systems, do our provisioning, and then off we go to Isla Espirito Santos for a few days of swimming in the beautiful azure seas of the Sea of Cortez before heading south to Cabo San Lucas at the tip of the Baja Peninsula.
From there, it’s Point Richmond or bust! We expect to be homeward bound by next week!!
To all our faithful readers, we wish you well and thank your for goading us to keep you informed about Caprice’s travels.”
Cheers from Captain Dan
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About Me
- 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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