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  Spring 2008 Ventura to Vancouver I love bashing my way up the west coast of North America.  Harbour hopping with a constant eye on the weather forcasts.
       
  Winter 2008 Ensenada Mexico to Ventura California After picking up Mustang Sally from Dockwise a great weather window invites us to press northward
       
  Winter 2008 New Zealand to Mexico Dockwise transport carries Mustang Sally back to North America
       
  Winter 2006 Tonga to New Zealand 1000 mile passage south to New Zealand to escape the tropical storm season.
       
  Fall 2006 Nuie to Tonga The Kingdom of Tonga has three main island groups.  We sailed through them all.
       
  Fall 2006 Cook Islands to Nuie Nuie is a lonely but beautiful outpost in the south Pacific.  Smallest country in the world and clearest water in the world.
       
  Fall 2006 French Polynesia to the Cook Islands We sailed from Bora Bora to the Cook Islands, visiting the atolls of Aitutaki and Palmerston
       
  Summer 2006 French Polynesia Our passages through the Marqueses, the Tuamotu and the Society islands took us to some of the most beautiful places on the planet..
       
  Summer 2006 Galapagos to Polynesia 3000 mile south Pacific passage to Polynesia.  21 day crossing
       
  Summer 2006 Ecuador to Galapagos Rolling over huge but slow Pacific swell, it is a quick crossing to Darwin's inspiration.  The Galapagos Islands made a big mark on us.
       
  Spring 2006 Panama to Ecuator 900 miles upwind and up current bash, across the equator to Bahia Caraques, Ecuador - all to become leatherbacks and wash away the grimy polywog past.
       
  Spring 2006 Central America Cruise Jumping over the Tehauntepc to enjoy Guatemala and San Salvador. We zoomed our way through Nicaragua and the Papaguaos winds to beautiful Costa Rica.  On to the Islands of Panama and the canal.
       
  Fall 2005 & Spring 2006 Mexican Cruise Mexico beautiful Mexico how we loved you so.  The Baja, beautiful and remote.  The mainland so exotic and lovable.
       
       
  Summer 2005 White Rock to California. Shake down leg for our around the world trip.  For all the gory details click here
 
  2004 Side Trip to Portugal We enjoy a 600 mile sail from Cais Cias (west Lisbon) Portugal to the Pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar).  Sailing on the beautiful Moni Moni (a brand new Fountaine Pajot Lavezzi 40),  with Captain Dan Penner and owner Mary Ann Mustonen,  we enjoy the fruits of the Portuguese west coast and the Algarve
       
  Sept. 2003 Juan de Fuca Romp After a long weekend of partying at Garrison Bay on San Juan Island, we explored the entire north coast of the Olympic Peninsula.
       
  Summer 2002 Van isle Circumnavigation A Trip to Alaska turns into a trip round the island.  A better voyage few get to enjoy.
       
  June 2001 Puget Sound Puttering Admiralty Inlet and shadowing the boomers in the Hood Canal.
       
  May 2000 West Coast Bash We get ocean hardened on a tough 1000 mile beat from San Diego, California to White Rock, British Columbia.  More details in  1000 Miles to Weather in a Reaching Machine.
       
  Dec. 1999 through Jan. 2000 Tropical Delivery We hire Tony Elsdon to move Sally from Houston,  across the Gulf of Mexico,  through the Panama canal, and Northwest to San Diego.
       
  Oct.1999 Down the Ditch Port Aransas to Huston Texas.
       
  1996 Guadeloupe to Texas Shane Demmer of San Antonio purchased the yacht and hired a crew to move her across the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico to Mustang Island.
       
  1990 France to the Caribbean The boat was moved from the factory to Guadeloupe. Not much is known about this trip.