Hello from Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico. Yea! Ravenswing is back in the water. Land-life interventions kept her “on the hard” for 15 months. She got plenty of refit, maintenance and upgrade work over the course of four trips I took to the boat yard, and I gotta say, she looks and feels great this evening. Ready to get some groceries tomorrow and head southbound on the Sea of Cortez. Her tracker has been turned back on, so if you want to get updates on our travels, including a bit of written commentary, go to the menu bar at the top here, just under the boat’s photo and click on tracking. The forecast looks like we might get some good downwind spinnaker running this week. It would be fantastic to fill the big chute and hit some sustained ‘teens boatspeed. We’ll see.

Meanwhile back home in California, I didn’t quite get the F25C back on the trailer, but she’s painted now and the rigging process is well underway. I’m loving that whole project, but truth be told, she’s second fiddle to the big sister, and the trailer-tri will now have to sit idle for another month while we get some sea miles made. Here’s how we made out on the paint job: