Last night in la Cruze
Farr Gone Blog
Stuart Cannon
Thu 24 Mar 2011 05:35
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Its getting late and its been a big day. The
shopping has ended and the boat is packed. Final margaritas have been consumed
and almost eveything is right I hope. The goodbyes have been moving, everybody
is so damn nice here and its bloody hard to leave. The main man of the dock
businesses, the chinaman, came by and the goodbyes were quite emotional. At
least three hand shakes and a hug. Then there was the cast of characters like
Mike, Annette Mariana and all the others who have been forthright in their
demands for me to stay, just one more week! Trouble is that is what was said two
weeks ago and sailing is what I want to do.
My plan, at the moment is to head for Samoa. I am
of course willing to deviate should Farr Gone get thirsty for deisel or I run
out of toilet paper but to get one big leg done would make me feel good and
would break the back of the trip. After Samoa its basically island hopping back
to Oz. Singlehanding removes alot of the desire to stop as the sailing is the
thing. Naturally I would stop for reasons of commonsense but being a tourist
holds little attraction for me on my own.
I look forward to having crew, family or friends on
some inter island hops around Tonga etc and I hope to coincide that with
holidays. Fingers crossed as I really do miss those darn kids.
Farr Gone has to report to the Port Captain in
Puerto Vallarto tomorrow with a full crew list. That shouldn't take too long to
type. Unfortunately the process could take most of the day. I would like to
leave here with at least three to four hours of daylight so I'll have to run as
PV is an hour by yacht and the process can take hours. Fingers
crossed.
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