Archive for March, 2010

Pacific Puddle Jump Party

On Saturday afternoon a large group of cruisers, with plans to head west from here in the next few weeks, gathered at the Balboa Yacht Club for information and a get together.  It was sponsored by Latitude 38 magazine and the Tahiti tourism bureau.

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Bill with the latest issue of the magazine.  Andy (managing editor at  Latitude 38) brought a stack of the popular magazine south with him and they rapidly disappeared into cruisers’ hands.  Bill took most of the photos of the event as I was helping at the registration table with Shirley.

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Andy and Stephanie (from the Tahiti tourism office) gave a nice presentation.  There was a drawing for door prizes and one of the items was Tahitian material for their traditional wrap-around clothing.  Stephanie showed one of the cruising ladies how to wrap it for a female and for a male.

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After the crowd thinned, we enjoyed an early dinner with Andy, Stephanie, Frank and Shirley.

A Busy Week in Balboa

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Fish being landed on the Balboa YC dock after a day of fishing by one of the members.

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Frank and Shirley had friends from San Diego arrive for a day in Panama City on one of the big cruise ships.  After showing them some of the sites of the city they came to the Yacht Club for beers before returning to the ship.

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Bill with a lure for a BIG fish.  The lure was on display at the local boating hardware store that now  sells mostly fishing gear.  A genuine Rapala-brand lure!