The Sailing Logs of Clare Holt

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.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Wednesday, March 6, 1996 - Last Log

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Busy day. When we were at IMS, Roy took the mainsail to the sailmaker there to have it repaired. Yesterday, when he unrolled the sail ...
Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Tuesday, March 5, 1996 - Trinidad

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Awoke to a beautiful world. We're surrounded on three sides by high, tree-covered hills. Hundreds of sailboats fill this cove. Th...
Monday, September 3, 2012

Monday, March 4, 1996 - Trinidad

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At the close of the previous log, I had just humiliated myself by falling off the gangplank and was getting ready to fly back to Califor...
Sunday, September 2, 2012

Tuesday, November 28, 1995 - Trinidad

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This is the day I was not going to go to town. I was going to relax and go paddling. Ha! Spent the morning going through my papers...
Saturday, September 1, 2012

Monday, November 27, 1995 - Trinidad

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This was an exciting day for Trinidad. The ceremonial opening of the new Parliament occurred this morning. I was downtown and could ha...
Friday, August 31, 2012

Sunday, November 26, 1995 - Trinidad

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Sort of a weird day. In the morning, the sky was completely blue and beautiful, so Roy painted the mizzen mast. As soon as he had fini...
Thursday, August 30, 2012

Saturday, November 25, 1995 - Trinidad

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A boat about half a mile from us caught fire this morning. The people were calling for help on the VHF. Several dinghies zoomed over t...
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Sailing Logs of Clare Holt
Mom, Clare Holt, retired as a counselor for the hard to employ at the California Employment Development Department at the age of 55 to become a programmer for a Network Development company. She retired from programming at age 65 and followed her lifelong dream of sailing. As a child our mother spent her summers on Nantucket, watching sailboats and always wanted to be on one. During mom's sails in 1995, she lived the dream of sailing into Nantucket. Her first sail out of California was in 1990 to Acapulco, Mexico and back to her homeport in Richmond, CA. Her next sail in 1992 out of California was to Alaska and back. Then February 1993, she set sail for the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean by going through the Panama Canal. I am starting the Blog with the logs through the Panama Canal. Unfortunately after sailing three more years, through the Gulf of Mexico, around the Caribbean, the Inter-coastal Water Way and the West Indies, she was murdered in 1996 in Trinidad, when she was on a hike to a turtle beach where turtles were hatching. I went to Trinidad to collect her things and brought back her laptop, which was an old Tandy and converted the logs to Microsoft Word on my computer.
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