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Old Man and the Sea

By Amy Read on April 24, 2008 10:28 PM |

A Few Journal Entries:

March 8, Saturday, Mark's 40th Birthday, Barillas Marina, El Salvador to Gulf of Fonseca, El Salvador

Crazy day. Ponga shows up at 6:00 am to escort us 9 miles down river out to open ocean.  Due to sleep deprivation, Mark could not find key to start boat.  30 minutes later, find key hanging on the hook it was suppose to be on.  I still had terrible back pain.  Mark ran over mooring ball.  Departed 6:30 am.  Mid afternoon winds picking up.  Late afternoon, jib sail caught on radar dome.  Early evening radar antenna torn off mast.  Later, gale force winds. Winds would not stop for 40 days, and two countries later !!!

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Welcome to Central America

By Mark Read on March 5, 2008 6:14 PM |

Amy hoisting the yellow quarantine flag, which is required before you are checked into a new country

Having been boarded by the Mexican Navy for the last time, we left Puerto Madero on Saturday February the 16th, just as the sun was going down and 5 hours behind our friends on Ogopogo. 

We faced a dilemma on where we should try and stop.  Neither choice was a good one.  Our first option was to make a relatively short trip to Guatemala and stay at the mediocre Marina Pez Vela in Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala.  The advantage was that is was close to both Guatemala City and the active volcano we had promised Robert he could see up close.

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Shirlee Smith commented:

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.

Wade Sherrill commented:

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

Jerry Nagel commented:

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

Liz Worley commented:

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!

Wade Sherrill commented:

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

Liz Worley commented:

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

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