Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Journal Entry – Wednesday March 2, 2005 – Puddle Jump Meeting II

Author: Scott and Pam

The Puddle Jumpers met again this morning with laptops and software in hand. Joshua Slocum (the first person to sail around the world solo) would roll over in his grave with overwhelm with what is available to sailors these days. The women in the group also met to discuss provisioning and everyone brought recipes to share. Unfortunately, I was under the weather and was not able to attend this meeting, but Scott did make it to the computer meeting and dropped off three recipes to contribute to the group. We are looking forward to more recipes that are deemed seaworthy and to spice up the menu for our big crossing. It will be challenging for us to store as much food as we would like to bring, after eating out of cans for a few months, I am determined to have more options on board.

A visit to the internet café today also brought news which is likely to have an impact on our upcoming plans to cross the pacific. We have been waiting for several weeks for the results of a biopsy I had just before leaving Puerto Vallarta, the news took the wind out of our sails today. Unfortunately, I will have to have a procedure before we can leave, which involves at least a three week recovery... Just this morning we were so excited to have strengthened our bond with the group of people leaving from Zihuatanejo for the puddle jump. It felt like it was all coming together and we were moving forward to leave for the South Pacific by the third week in March. This twist presents us with decisions and changes to our plans we will most likely have to make. We have sent the Dr. an e-mail to find out more information, it could take a few days for him to respond. He speaks very little English, but once again we were more than impressed with how progressive he is, including an almost one hour office visit (almost unheard of in the US). Based on what we know now, it is already clear we will not be able to leave until at least the first week of April. We are feeling very disappointed, we were getting so excited about leaving within a few days of other boats heading across, especially since there are two 32 foot boats in the group.

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