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09-01-2010, 11:00
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#16
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: La Paz
Boat: 41' Custom CC Cutter
Posts: 647
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Bon Voyage! May you two have fair winds and an uncomplicated passage.
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09-01-2010, 15:50
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#17
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Long Range Cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Australian living on "Sea Life" currently in England.
Boat: Beneteau 393 "Sea Life"
Posts: 12,822
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OK, we go now
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09-01-2010, 16:11
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#18
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 9,398
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Good luck, fair winds, etc. Hope everything goes well for you! Hopefully we'll be following you in a year or two!
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09-01-2010, 17:30
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#19
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Sihanoukville, Cambodia
Boat: looking
Posts: 593
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Hey Mark, Fair winds! My wife looked at the pictures of both of you on your site &, with her Filipina (hoodoo-voodoo) wisdom, says, "They will grow old, together." So, you'll be fine, she's never wrong! It has something to do with Nicolle having "long" ears!?!!
Mike
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09-01-2010, 17:36
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#20
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Australasia
Posts: 284
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bangkaboat
Hey Mark, Fair winds! My wife looked at the pictures of both of you on your site &, with her Filipina (hoodoo-voodoo) wisdom, says, "They will grow old, together." So, you'll be fine, she's never wrong!
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.. and if you keep living by that mantra Bankaboat, then you and your wife will grow old together too!
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09-01-2010, 19:12
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#21
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Canada
Boat: Corbin 39 Special Edition
Posts: 909
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkJ
OK, we go now
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What! You haven't left yet!
Have fun and get going.
This thread is turning into a wake like affair.
I know it is just all of us wishing you and Nicolle all the best, but there is a certain morbidity to it.
Now get going, have fun and let us know what a GREAT time your having (when you can). I am EXTREMELY jealous by the way!
Cheers,
Extemp.
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09-01-2010, 20:56
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#22
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 1,076
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Yah, happy and safe sailing!!! Keep us posted if you can and Let us all know when you arrive at your next port!! Cheers
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10-01-2010, 02:50
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#23
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Sitka, Alaska
Boat: William Garden Ketch
Posts: 176
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkJ
That sux!!!! Hope the damage isnt too bad, or not expensive. Good luck with it.
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Yes it does but it could have been a direct hit and worse. We are now back in Chalong - have you left yet? Could you do with one more beer before you leave?
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10-01-2010, 05:50
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#24
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: UK East Coast
Boat: Riviera 35
Posts: 285
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They're Aussies. They will make it. The locals can't handle the beer.
Must admit that a lightning strike worries me more than the other thing. But that's only because the only pirates we have around here are in the invoicing offices of marinas.
Wish there was something we could actually do, other than wish them bon voyage.
Reckon some of our minds will be concentrated for a while.
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07-02-2010, 06:33
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#25
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Long Range Cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Australian living on "Sea Life" currently in England.
Boat: Beneteau 393 "Sea Life"
Posts: 12,822
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Phase ONE complete!!
We did a 26 day passage and are now in a preliminary area.
Have been on 'close' watch for 800 nms!
I dont know how good internet access here will be but should be able to say hi before we leave for next phase.
Nic is well and says hi
By the way, the last 26 days have been WONDERFUL (except the obvious) more whales than any other passage, more dolphins, turtles swimming over to us! All most amazing!
Mark
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07-02-2010, 07:45
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#26
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Gulfport, MS
Boat: Beneteau 393
Posts: 954
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Glad to hear it! And good luck on your next leg!
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07-02-2010, 08:38
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#27
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Puget Sound
Boat: Irwin 41 CC Ketch
Posts: 2,878
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Ditto :
Missed the original post till now Mark but I knew you obviously had to go through there Knowing where you started... being where you have been and where you intended to go ...good Job and have fun... Post some pics of sea life ( both kinds.. )when you get a chance.
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07-02-2010, 08:46
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#28
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2008
Boat: Currently boatless
Posts: 643
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The pictures on your website are amazing. It is fantastic photos like those that make me want to go straight to the tropics!
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07-02-2010, 11:36
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#29
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Sitka, Alaska
Boat: William Garden Ketch
Posts: 176
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Told you the sailing part for the first phase was probably going to be pleasant. It is the next part that can be dicey. But we had some friends do it a couple years back and they beam reached the whole way so I guess it is more a bit of luck than anything. But if you get it wrong those contrary winds are a bit of a bummer not to mention the greetings you might get from some of their err "famous" locals!!!
Cheers and glad you had a good trip
Mark and Pauline
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09-02-2010, 04:27
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#30
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Moderator and Certifiable Refitter
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: South of 43 S, Australia
Boat: C.L.O.D.
Posts: 20,301
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Good to hear from again and I trust your next phase will go as well as P1. Good luck and fair winds
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