Hi, I’m planning a circumnavigation to visit all the places I’ve read about, seen or Been told are must see experiences. The first rule of sailing is to maintain a proper watch, that not electronically, that’s a crew member, can be using information generated by any source, I’m not a purest, just very safety conscious.
I’ve over 30 years boating/sailing experience, with over 10,000 sea mi. experence, have passed coast guard masters lic, an ASA sailing instructor, sailed Mexico to Alaska in my home ocean fo the pacific north west, I’ll gladly teach you all you want to learn, but you must be able to preform well enough to keep your self and me safe, if you think you can do it so do I, we’ll know soon enough if cruising is for you and us.
Im looking for a first mate/co captain, long term, passionate, intimate relationship. That’s where I'm at my best and happiest, come sail with me if it doesn’t work for you, jump ship, no harm no foul. No pressure, you’ll have your own cabin, and I’ll feed you nutrients meals aboard and ask that you fully participate in watch standing and ship maintenance, it usually not that much, but I do like to keep busy, and keep things ship shape, so don’t think you have match my efforts, just help out. I think working on the boat is kind of fun.
The boat is a gemni 105mc catamaran, 2011 model, fairly new, at 34ft with a 14ft beam she’s smaller then most, I like to move softly on our planet, and we’re fully self sufficient power wise but will happily take a slip for showers and shore excursions when possible, my main focus is seeing historic sites, gardens, architecture, wonders of the world, like to bike, listen to music, dance, maybe karaoke as a duet.
I’m open to suggestions, questions, options, its your adventure too, I’ve got nothing better to do with the third half of my life then to share in the adventure of a leisurely look at the world around us, so if this is of interest contact me, I’ll be ready to go this fall, Steve

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Happy day, you’ve followed me this far, in this section I’ll share what happened so far. I’m currently in Rio Dulce Guatemala, it’s the end of March and temperatures will get to the 100 degree with 100% humidity, that’s just to hot for this Oregon duck and I’ll fly home to return after hurricane season, October.
I purchased the boat, my first catamaran January 2020, covid was just getting started, I’d already caught it and recovered in December ( bad cold followed by the flu) another week to get well. That on top of a fall on a project in November motivated me to retire, I thought I didn’t want to be that old fool who just won’t quit, I already was, to much ego tied up in doing the thing that I was really good at, ie building, property management, and handyman for clients and the church. .

So departed Cape Coral spring 2020 in route to panama to cross the canal then up the coast to oregon for a major refit, I know people and repair yard in my home port, you guessed it Guatemala is way short of goal. Expected crew cancelled just days before departure, sailed up to Charlotte bay on the west coast to interview crew, she just couldn’t quite let go, back and forth, but didn’t join, coastal crushed south to key west where a young man joined me for the leg across to Cancun, he over revel the engine and we were a true sail boat as we came around Cuba, tough conditions due to the 2kt current moving north against us with lite winds, took 4 days to make 60 mi, saw whale sharks, they came right alongside as we poked along, I’m used to thing like this but it just made my crew crazy, thought I should call some one to tow us in, we got to island mujeres better sailors for the experence, in high winds it’s much easier to helm then in very little wind, and mistake stops the boat and with the current you go backwards.
Repaired engine and sat at anchor through tropical storm christabol, short of hurricane by about 5kts wind, accepted that hurricane season was upon me, moored in a slip at Marina del sol, and went home to oregon to sell my business and other related positions.
Didn’t do a very job liquidation wise, but have a wonderful houce sitter, so returned to boat with crew in hand for my next sailing season, got hit by a hurricane 4 days after arrival, weathered it well in the slip, and waited for a weather window to sail south, it took a long time coming, so day sails, diving, sight seeing the temples of the Yucatán I had a great time, mean wile we had 4 more hurricane that year all missed us, one did chase us all the way to island Roatan houndurs, but found safe harbor in French harbor at fantasy island, no services, but we’re self contained, and could get a ride to market weekly, tried twice to depart and almost cleared Nicaragua, but was driven Back by east. Winds. Honduras finally put there foot down, they were closed due to covid and said the next extension I requested would bring about fines, señor. With the east wind the advice was to run west to Rio Dulce Guatemala, what a gift the river enters the sea at Livingston and empty’s two very large lakes, very safe from hurricane, though we had 5 in 2020 we didn’t have any in the Cancun channel in 2021, go figure, no hurricane doesn’t make the news. Explored the area until it got to hot. And flew home.
Did a lot better lightening my load, sold my business, all equipment and a great deal of my personal property, had the house sold, but the sale fell through, they might of been playing me to low ball at the last minute, no worries, I returned in October by driving my van down from Portland with my kayak strapped to the top, a wind generator, new VHS raido with AIS installed, solar controller, led bulbs and far too much stuff, including favorite foods that can’t be sourced here, they don’t have dill pickles, or old fashioned oat meal, no extra sharp New York cheddar cheese, oh the perils of living in the third world, I brought enough for this season, so didn’t suffer to much.
This season started with 6 weeks of the boat being on the hard, (code for being in the marine yard up on blocks) some additions and repairs can only be accessed out of the water and others are just a lot easier, and if you drop a bolt you don’t have to go diving for it.
For me living aboard is so much like heaven, on the water, close to nature. View constantly changing,
Things to do and see, usually wind or breeze to moderate the temperatures. On the hard not so nice, very happy to splash and get underway.

Highlites of his winters cruise are, takal and the lost cities of the myans, pyramids and temples, the river of the 7 alters, a purification ceremony by a myan shaman, lots of day sails in the lakes with new friends, a slip at mar marine a nice resort, with pool, restaurant and movie nite, installing solar panels and LED lights at local villages, some quite a field trip back in jungle, the local service group hopes that there’ll use the light for civic affairs, it when I go do an install and hang out for a day or to to compleat it it mostly use to charge there cell phones, I sneak along a distribution pack so they can charge six at a time, the adm. folks don’t like it but they rarely go out in the field, and my biz was always give the client what they want.

I’m still playing the long game of a 10 year circumnavigation, so discovery of equipment flaws are a gift, to repaired now and not later, yea right, if you can’t fool yourself who can you fool.
Well that not all of it but it’s about all I can do in one sitting, the breeze is coming up it’s cooling down, maybe mid 80s might tune the shrouds and rigging, wash the deck or go to the pool, you win a free two weeks sailing on the lake if you get it right, Steve