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Time to get back to work, on the blog at least as I’ve been very busy on other things. I got home from Chile to find a pile of work stacked up and waiting for my attention. The engineering work that helps finance my lifestyle has grown due to one of the very few...John's Blog
Its been a real scramble the last few days so I’ve not been able to post, but its catchup time. So here is a short post and some pics from our days in Punta Arenas. Punta Arenas, what a place. The people here have been unfailingly friendly and helpful,...John's Blog
Its been a very good day today. One of the jobs that we’d come here to Punta Arenas to do was to contact the appropriate people in the Armada de Chile, ( navy) and discuss with them the upcoming voyage by Howard in his modified SCAMP. Another job was to find...John's Blog
Punta Arenas, when we read cruising stories, or those tales from the round the world yacht races, or old Joshua Slocums book it seems a place of mystery and dreams. But now we’re here, its very real. What a place. The people here have been...John's Blog
A graveyard of dreams and ships. These are Cape Horners, there are the remains of wrecks all along this shore, skeletal remains sticking up out of clear frigid water, ships that came this far and couldn’t make it further, the end of the line at the bottom...
