This Blog is our mother's logs from her sails aboard Jofian. Our mother, Clare Holt, wrote a log every day and after her first sail to Mexico, she bought a laptop to write and save her logs. She sailed when the World Wide Web was first created, there was not as much on the Internet back then, no Wi-Fi, Internet access was very limited. I know if she were sailing today that she would be putting her logs in a Blog, so I am doing it for her. Mom’s logs to Alaska are on saillogsalaska.blogspot.com.
Friday, June 1, 2012
Sunday, August 6, 1995 - Aruba
It's so good to be out here in the clean water and cool breezes! When we want to go swimming, we just hop off the boat. And we can go Royaking again! All the time we were at the marina, I only used my Royak once, and that was just to replace a broken line. I couldn't stand the thought of putting my Royak into that yucky water.
This morning, Roy paddled to town to fill the five-gallon plastic jugs with water and to get rid of the trash. While he was gone, I wrote four letters. In the afternoon, I enjoyed a good paddle while Roy replaced the impeller, cleaned the saltwater filter, put on his SCUBA gear, and cleaned the barnacles and seaweed and glop out of the saltwater intake valve. He told me later he'd had a hard time even finding the intake valve, it was so buried in seaweed and junk.
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