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I recently completed a 900 mile sailing adventure from San Francisco to Cabo San Lucas, at the southern tip of the Baja peninsula.


The story in text and pictures is available at Captain


Howard’s Blog. I hope you’ll give it a read and smile. Howard Edson


We’ve gladly added Howard’s Blog to our family of Northwest cruiser blogs on our website. Howard describes his story as “An old salt of 70+ years, in search of the perfect margarita and the Holy Grail, sails the California coast and south to Cabo San Lucas.”


The Terrierist of Las Brisas Panama


This was a nice day. Aside from terrierising two cats, and two parrots, pulling my arm out of its shoulder sockets, and futilely barking to chase boobies off the rigging, it was a nice day. It started fairly early, 0630, with a barking session.


I rushed from a sound sleep to see what calamity was topside that required immediate attention. Had the Smithsonian’s boat dock fallen into the bay? Was someone floundering in the water nearly drowned? Maybe an adjacent boat had parted its anchor line and was drifting down upon us. Nope! Three pelicans had the nerve to be sitting on the water a mere boat length from Someday. I might as well make my morning coffee and watch the sun come over Isla Perico. Coffee’s good! Now that Ana has me up and about,


where is she? Of course she has gone back to sleep, on my pillow. No fried egg for her this morning. Well, end of my first cup, so time to start thinking about what I am going to do today that’s productive. Yesterday, I soldered one wire that had parted, and helped Panama reduce its excess


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