Forestay Archives | Sailing Rua Hatu https://www.svruahatu.com/tag/forestay/ Exploring the world on a Vancouver 36 Sun, 03 Sep 2023 02:55:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.svruahatu.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-SVRuaHatu_Stamp-32x32.png Forestay Archives | Sailing Rua Hatu https://www.svruahatu.com/tag/forestay/ 32 32 Crisis averted in Chiapas https://www.svruahatu.com/2022/06/crisis-averted-in-chiapas/ https://www.svruahatu.com/2022/06/crisis-averted-in-chiapas/#comments Sat, 18 Jun 2022 02:25:47 +0000 https://www.svruahatu.com/?p=2492 After our unexpected rigging and engine problems on passage from Acapulco, we anticipated the worst was yet to come as we slowly limped in to Chiapas in the wee hours of the morning. But Neptune seems to have granted us a reprieve, delivering us safely to a wonderful little harbor at the very southern extreme of Mexico's Pacific Coast; Marina de Chiapas!

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]]> https://www.svruahatu.com/2022/06/crisis-averted-in-chiapas/feed/ 1 The perils of crossing the Gulf of Tehuantepec https://www.svruahatu.com/2022/06/the-perils-of-crossing-the-gulf-of-tehuantepec/ https://www.svruahatu.com/2022/06/the-perils-of-crossing-the-gulf-of-tehuantepec/#respond Fri, 10 Jun 2022 17:44:29 +0000 https://www.svruahatu.com/?p=2436 On June 1 we raised anchor and left Acapulco, Guerrero, for Oaxaca. Three days later we dropped anchor in a hurricane ravaged Puerto Angel. The day before we left Acapulco, Hurricane Agatha had hit the Oaxaca coast. We hoped to use the dying winds after the storm to push us down the coast. We had …

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