MOONLIGHT SAILING 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Join us in a sailing adventure from Channel Islands harbor, California aboard the 42 ft. sailing vessel Moonlight.  There are no cruising plans here except to continue until the fun stops.  The boats destination is always over the horizon to the next port or island anchorage and we sail there at an incredibly slow pace.  That direction depends on the wind and current to push us along.
Moonlight is at Ranguana Cay in Belize and we are all prepared for a Christmas feast at the local resort Under a slow sail from San Diego California with the staysail and 135 pulling along.  In the cockpit are a couple of red shoes showing. At anchor in Placencia, Belize, we are flying flags on Christmas Day 2007 which has become a tradition - guess what they spell. Viewing the ruins Tulum, Mexico
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Recent updatesFlorida (Dry Tortugas)

Pictures with highly intelligent discussion: (From present to past):

  1. Florida (Dry Tortugas) - (May 2008)

  2. Mexico - (Jan/Mar/Apr 2008)

  3. Belize - (Dec 2007/Jan 2008)

  4. Guatemala -  (Jul 2007) & Guatemala - (Nov/Dec 2007)

  5. Honduras - Roatan & Mainland -  (May/Jun/Jul 2007)

  6. Delivery - PR to Venezuela - (May 2007)

  7. Columbia - Providencia - (Apr/May 2007)

  8. Panama -  (Apr 2006 to Apr 2007) 

  9. Costa Rica -  (Apr 2006)

  10. El Salvador - Nicaragua - (Mar 2006)

  11. Mexico - Oaxaca - (Feb 2006)

  12. Mexico - Holidays - (Christmas 2005) 

  13. San Diego to Zihuatanejo - (Oct 2004 to Dec 2005)

  14. Our routes in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.

 

Daily Log:

May 9: Up early and 12 hours later we are in Key West, Florida.  Moonlight returns to the US for the first time in four years.  She has sailed us over 5100 nm.  We are ready to celebrate.  May 6-8: At anchor in Dry Tortugas, Florida and exploring Fort Jefferson and resting.  May 5: Finally tacked for Dry Tortugas and arrived at 5:30 PM.  So 2.5 days to cover 292 nm.  May 4:  Off of Cuba and the wind indicator has to be broken.  All it ever reads is over knots and wind on the nose.  We covered 135 nm the first day.  May 3: Departed Isla Mujeres for Dry Tortugas, Florida.  In the afternoon, enjoyed being in a washing machine with Force 5 winds and 10 ft seas.  Just hang on it will pass.  But we are doing 8 knots towards our destination.  May 2: Moved out of Marina Del Sol and off the mud - hooray.  May 1:  How many times can a Mexican official stamp ten pieces of paper just so we can get out of the country ...... answer - until the damn page is full.  It occurs every time we enter and leave a country and continues to be an incredible spectacle to watch and difficult to keep from laughing.  But we are almost free to depart on our return to the US.  After the check-out is finished we kind feel like we have won the lottery or something special.  Saturday is still the departure day and we are very ready.    

 

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To contact us: 

These emails are presented with an (at) for @ and (dot) for . to avoid spam searches and also no spaces.  

  1.  wdb9301 (at) sailmail (dot) com   A SSB radio based text-only email on the boat that will not allow any pictures or attachments.  This one we check almost everyday.  PLEASE NO ATTACHMENTS OR REPLY EMAILS, ONLY ORIGINAL TEXT.
  2. yentsail (at) gmail (dot) com       Yen's land base email and takes attachments and includes replies.
  3. reotime (at) dock (dot) net        Ron's land base email and handles attachments, etc.
  4. Dial 011 if in the US and then (8816) 3157 2982.  This is an Iridium Satellite phone and the charge is $1.10 per minute to you - how fast can we talk.  This phone works anywhere on the planet earth - anywhere unlike Globalstar, etc. and we leave it on most all the time when at sea or remote anchorages.

 

 

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Halyards, sheets and braces mind,
But when wind comes before rain,
Soon you can make sail again.
Long foretold, long last
Short notice, soon past,
Quick rise after low,
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