March 15 Puerto |
Talion arrived at beautiful Paradise Village Marina in Nuevo Vallarta and quickly cleaned up the boat for the new crew. Tim Morris, Susan Coulson, and Mike & Chris Quigley were the first to arrive and somehow knew to go directly to the Yacht Club for a margarita where they ran into Patsy catching up on computer work. Later John Cavanaugh flew in and checked into the hotel. We got an email from "Odyssey" Marv and Ardy Dunn's Peterson 44. They and their son Malcolm picked up Charlie McDonald and Cindy Criss in Yelapa and are sailing to La Cruz to anchor for the night and then into Paradise Village. Unfortunately Ardy will not be able to join us for the races but her son Malcolm will be taking her place. The crew is coming together! |
March 16 |
Some of the crew were total tourists today and took the bus to downtown Puerto Vallarta. We shopped, sampled tequila, walked, ate, explored, chased an iguana, shopped, and... did I say shopped? Later we did some real shopping at Costco for provisions... beer, tequila, rum and brandy... oh and a little wine! |
March 19 |
Day One started with a mandatory boat parade of the racing boats out the Nuevo Vallarta channel in front of a viewing stand. Each boat was announced and a little was said about the crews. "Talion" was proud to be announced as having 12 people from the Portland Oregon sailing community aboard! We had a great start and were in front for the day until the 50' schooner "Rose of Sharon" came out of no where and rounded the final mark in front of us! On the downwind leg to the finish we believed we had caught up enough to correct on them. Unfortunately that evening at the Yacht Club we found that they had a last minute rating change and beat us by quite a bit... bummer.
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March 20 |
A party was in order! Cocktails on Talion which included tequila shots |
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