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Nice website. I can sympathize with your Rio Dulce curse. We lost our transmission in the Pacific between Mexico and Guatemala and had to spend a month in Puerto Quetzal getting it replaced. With our 6'1" draft, we'll probably never visit Rio Dulce.

Thanks! for sharing your adventure with us. Ruth and I really enjoy your website. We have been looking for your latest adventure for several weeks now, since your last one in early June. Ruth and I have just returned from Lima, Ohio where we visited with Teri and Tyler Jansen (you'll remember her as Teri Browning). Their two little girls, ages 3 and 5 are who we really went to visit, of course (

But WELCOME to the Gulf of Mexico and Ports leading toward Houston, TX and the boring prospect of returning to Overland Park and the Kansas City work-a-day envionment. But I'll be surprised if you don't go on to Florida and up the east coast intercoatal waterway. But if you do, --- please go with another boat and be very careful of the modern day Pirates along the east coast. That is a very real danger these days.

Wade & Ruth Sherrill

Just for info. The MV RICKMERS TOKYO is the full name of the vessel which transited the Panama Canal on 18th July with you.

She is one of 9 sister vessels deployed on Rickmers-Linie Round-The-World Service. She is NOT a tanker --- a general cargo heavy lift breakbulk vessel. She carries heavy machinery to build power plants, refineries, construction equipment, boats - even carries boats the size of your sailboat and larger, along with steel, plywood, and a variety of other cargoes, primarily captital goods in nature.

She is classified as a "Superflex Heavy Multipurpose Carrier" vessel capablie of lifting up to 640 tons with her own gear. She is approximately 630 feet long (192 meters) has a deadweight capacity of 30,000 tons and can cruise at a service speed up to 19.5 knots. She was built in December 2002 in Xiamen Shipyard in China.

For more information about the MV RICKMERS TOKYO (and her sisterships) you can visit the website of Rickmers-Linie,
http://www.rickmers-linie.com

I hope this information is useful to you.

Jerry Nagel
President / CEO
Rickmers-Linie (America) Inc.
Houston, Texas

Glad to hear you're cleaning up the boat for your upcoming visitors! I'm looking forward to seeing you in nine days and seeing Robert's Three Stooges routines. Never a dull moment!

Ruth and I really enjoy your journal and the pictures. Thanks for sharing.
Wade

These photos are amazing! I hope, hope, hope Robert remembers all these adventures when he's older. They're priceless!