Sojourner is for sale......

Greetings from our new marina, still in LaPaz, but in the boonies. Marina Singlar will be home for a couple of weeks while we prepare Sojourner to spend the summer on concrete. Actually, we've had some really good fortune come our way. I don't think this guy in the pic had anything to do with it, but it seemed like a good place to show him off.

We have been working our butts off trying to get Sojourner looking as good as possible - Three coats of paint with sand in the first coat for new non-skid on all her decks. Now we will be doing some varnishing inside to spruce that up as well. I'm looking forward to not being able to touch certain places in our small home for days at a time. It's really a lot of fun as you might imagine. At the same time, we have a long list of projects to complete before we can leave. I won't bore you with the list, but on it is the removal of all our personal stuff that we don't want to go with the boat if she sells.





Anyway, on to our good fortune. We've entered into one of those rare Win Win situations with the owner of the boat we're trying to purchase. He has a pickup truck which he needed to insure and have driven up to Loretto, Mx where he is sailing to next week. We dearly need transportation for getting our personal stuff into storage and for just getting around in our new location. And, Loretto is on our way home. So, as you've guessed by now, we bought some insurance.

So here's the new plan. We've paid for two weeks here at Singlar, and it will take all of that to accomplish our list. If that does work out, we will have Sojourner hauled on about the 24th and then drive up to Loretto - about 100 or so miles up the baja. Once there, we may stay a couple days, then pick up a bus to Tijuana, then San Diego where we plan to rent a car and take two or three days to drive home to Grants Pass.

The link below is to the Ad on Yachtworld which is our main sales tool in case anyone wants to check that out. E
http://www.mazmarine.com/core/listing/pl_boat_detail.jsp?&units=Feet&id=2050788&lang=en&slim=broker&&hosturl=mazmarine&&ywo=mazmarine&

The trip back . . .

This is a picture of the friends that we have been sailing with in the sea. On your left is "Hanali", Mitch & Laura, next is "Friendship" with Gloria & Sal and we are on the right. We are all sitting in the cockpit of "Friendship" which is a 45 foot Hunter.

On our way back to La Paz we stopped with "Hanali" for a few days at Puerto Evaristo & hit the shore to check it out. (Kristen, notice the hat).

This is Evaristo, further along on our walk. Most of the villages are a lot like this one with dirt roads & small homes near the shore.

This is "Hanali" motoring along side of us on our way back to La Paz.

We're sailin'!!!

Here is "Ballena", the boat we would love to buy. It is a 41 foot CT & has been sailed by the same captain for 25 years in the sea. It has it all & is the reason for our return to LaPaz to get "Sojourner" ready to sell.