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I know this is against the norm in the blogging world but, I try to keep the site clean and easy to read for our reader’s enjoyment. For this reason, I opted to keep comments to one page. We would love to hear from you. Do not let my wacky thought process deter you from expressing your feelings regarding our postings or another items of interest you want to share.
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Mark and Cindy
Man oh man. Where in the sea are you? FP not the place to be. Want to hear how you’re strategizing this one. Detour to Hawaii?…….
Charlie Singstad svTracenJ
Hi Charles,
Hmm. Very curious as to why you’d think French Polynesia is a bad option?
Mark
Always a delight to see a post from you in my inbox. What is UP with the Manchineal tree? Yikes. WHY? is right.
I love museums. Sorry to hear what a disappointment that one was.
Looking forward to 50 degrees all week. Yay! Started a new walking regimen last month. Took my bike in for service. Really looking forward to nicer weather.
Life is definitely weird here with Covid 19. Don’t even like to look at our 401ks. It was nasty last week. I know we will recover; it is just a bit scary. On a good note; the fed just bottomed out interest rates; we may refinance the boat!
Have a good week!
Hi Marie, It’s always nice to hear from you. Life is weird all over the entire globe because of this Covid-19 thing. We have been seriously disconnected so we are now catching up but it seems governments have way overreacted to this. Looking at stats it seems the mortality rate is less than 3% and is mostly in older people or persons already in bad health. (We haven’t been influenced by the media yet.) Wouldn’t it make sense to just quarantine these people and let healthy younger people go about their life? It seems to me the number of hardships incurred by many of losing their income and having to pay the rent and put food on the table is much greater than the people dying from the virus. I’m sure many of these people would be okay catching the virus and having a bad flu/bronchitis for a few days and being able to keep their job. But then again, we are very uninformed 🙂
Mark
Hi Marie, It’s always nice to hear from you. Life is weird all over the entire globe because of this Covid-19 thing. We have been seriously disconnected so we are now catching up but it seems governments have way overreacted to this. Looking at stats it seems the mortality rate is less than 3% and is mostly in older people or persons already in bad health. (We haven’t been influenced by the media yet.) Wouldn’t it make sense to just quarantine these people and let healthy younger people go about their life? It seems to me the number of hardships incurred by many of losing their income and having to pay the rent and put food on the table is much greater than the people dying from the virus. I’m sure many of these people would be okay catching the virus and having a bad flu/bronchitis for a few days and being able to keep their job. But then again, we are very uninformed 🙂
Mark
How smart you are to find guides that really help learn about your location. Those turtles are Ah Mazing. While circumnavigating in only a year might be goal; I like the pace you guys set. If I was only going to do this once; I would surely NOT want to miss much along the way.
We were out at the boat yesterday. Dan has been out most weekends doing projects; but yesterday he needed my help to mount our flag staff in a different location. It involved a new inspection hole; his arm up to the shoulder inside and me on the outside holding down the screws as he fumbled, err, located the nuts on the inside. Fun times. It was a very pleasant 55 degrees out. (We know that is only a tease; we’ve gotten some of our biggest snowstorms in April)
Living vicariously through our Cream Puff cruiser friends…..
Love the picture of the posing seal!
Us too! That one really cracked us up.
Mark
Hello, we are on the way to ask an agent to entering The Galápagos. They ask us a black and a grey tank. We have a black one but not the grey one. Do they ask for a grey tank for your boat?
Thanks a lot
Florence
Hi Florence, Sorry for the long delay to respond. We have been at sea. A grey tank is not required for entry to Galápagos, just a black one.
Mark
Congratulations cruisers! So happy to hear that you arrived safely and without much in the way of issue. Your onboard computer sounds amazing. From almost to ghe point of running out of fuel; to arriving a day early with half full tanks is incredible.
The photo of your inspection crew tells quite a story. I think I can understand the clean bottom requirement. But if it’s not applied equally; what is the point? It almost sounds like the costs associated with cruising creates jobs.
I love reading your stories; you make me anxious for boat weather. About ninety days to go…..
Thank you. Sorry, you have 90 days to go. It’s been so long that we’ve sailed in cool weather I can’t remember the last time. I think it might have been when we were departing the Chesapeake Bay. Sometimes on the hot days here we long for cool weather 🙂
We agree the jobs here are all 100% dependent on tourism. Creating government positions helps their local economy. We have seen this on many islands we’ve visited. They prefer to create a job than streamline a process.
What a year you’ve had! I look forward to your posts on the Galapagos and your Pacific crossing. You are my retirement hero’s!
Thank you Marie! You are too kind. And thank you for following along. You always brighten our day with your kind comments. We hope you had a nice Christmas and wish you a wonderful 2020. The posts will become a bit further apart as we enter areas without any or consistent wifi but we will try our best to keep the blog updated.
Merry Christmas!
To you as well. Many happy wishes for a wonderful 2020.
Mark/Cindy – thank you for all the writing and fantastic photos. You make an okay day become awesome when I see your latest entry pop into my in-box. Please enjoy this holiday, and nothing but best wishes for a safe an wonderful 2020 aboard the Puffster.
Thanks Bob! That is very nice of you to say. We are glad there are people who enjoy our scribbles and photos. Mark does most of the writing. I help edit. Some posts we co-write. The photos are mostly by me but Mark takes a few as well. It is nice to be able to look back over some of the posts from years gone by and remember places we visit. It is nice to hear from people who enjoy it too. Thanks for following along.
Hello…technical question about your webpage. What type of service/web editor did you use to create the SV Creampuff page? I’d like to create one for my sail racing team….
Thanks!
Hello Robert. We use WordPress. The blog is about 6 or 7 years old. It is easy to use and set up.