Thursday, April 28, 2011

Hello Cabo!


Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

After a short, but sweet visit to Espiritu Santos for some sightseeing and snorkeling, our intrepid Captain and Crew of the SV Caprice are underway today bound for Cabo San Lucas. Tom was able to phone home while passing La Paz and Dan later emailed that they had caught two tuna today and enjoyed fresh tuna sashimi for dinner! So, remember what we say when things are good on Caprice: “hallelujah!” The plan is to continue on through the night and hope to be in Cabo by tomorrow, Thursday, and out of there on their way up the Baja Peninsula sometime Friday.

While in Cabo, they will provision for the trip up the Baja Coast, and officially check out of Mexico. The check out procedure cannot be done on the weekend, so Friday is the goal for completing that task. Caprice and crew checked into Mexico at the end of the Baja Ha Ha in early November, 2010.

As always, we fans of Caprice wish them a safe and pleasant time until we meet again!
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About Me

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