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Puerto Aventuras to Roatan

3/25/2015

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Yesterday was a 250 mile run from Puerto Aventuras to Roatan.

We left at first light and ran 28 knots in nice seas, it got a little bumpy 80 miles out we had to slow down, but we were back up to 28 knots when we came into Roatan.

Things are a little different here.  I hailed the marina for 10 minutes with no response.

I finally called the guy and he said the radio was off.  

I asked for his lat and lon and he had no idea.

He asked me if I could see a small jet flying over and I said yes, so he told me that the marina was just under the plane.  We found it, and of course, it was not charted but the dockmaster swore there was plenty water and he was right.

We met DirtyE (drunk and shoeless) when he pulled up to the slip on a water taxi.

The local customs guy, Beatman, was great.  He showed up and took care of everything and even set up a diesel deliver the next day at $3.10 a gallon.

We are staying at Infinity Bay Resort, which is gorgeous.

Roatan is just how you want the islands to be.  Blue water, everyone is friendly and speaks english, and there are 100's of Gilligan's Island style bars 50 feet from the water.

Tomorrow is our biggest run of the trip so far.  650 miles in 3 days with an overnighter and a fuel stop.


7 Comments
Michael F Harrer SR.
3/25/2015 08:50:21 am

Way to go. I love reading this. I fish with Sandy in Summerland Key and love Henriques yachts. Your story is fantastic. If you could post distance traveled to date and fuel consumed I would be very interested.Those C-12s are super engines.

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Michael Colbach
3/28/2015 11:20:12 pm

Michael,

Fuel consumption is a little bit more than expected.

We got .46 yesterday in a 190 mile run at 28 knots.

One of the props appears to be under propped, as the starboard motor always burns around 2 GPH less than the port.

The bottom paint is a little rough, but due to the weather in NJ we could not get it done before the trip.

We have a 3 week layover in San Diego and will have the prop fixed and the bottom done, so it will be interesting to see if that helps.

So far, the C-12's have been great.

Mike

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Sandy
3/25/2015 10:05:30 am

One picture confused me for a moment ,then I remembered same thing happened before to hot plate ,I was not on board ,delivery captain fixed guess not a permanent fix . My favorite saying is a boat is like a truck when you get where you are going look and see what is broken not if something is broken

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Mike Colbach
3/25/2015 01:48:52 pm

Sandy,

My favorite saying is thank god it is not an airplane.

My wife's introduction to boating on our Viking involved a fire, a high water alarm, and a Pan Pan, followed by the CG towing us in.

A dropped cook top barely registers anymore.

Tomorrow we start a 650 mile run to Boca Del Toros Panama.

Thank god I have another captain, a great cheerleader (my wife) and lots of Rockstar.

At least we finally got the KVH sat phone working after suffering through 20 calls to tech support.

We will post a bunch of photos soon.

Captain Mike

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Wayne
3/27/2015 02:53:20 am

happy to see you are making good progress. Be safe!!!

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Laszlo Szalvay
3/28/2015 05:08:16 am

What a trip!
The pictures are gorgeous and the boat is beautiful.
HAVE A FUN AND SAFE TRIP!!
Laszlo, the old guy

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D.J. Moll link
3/31/2015 01:50:15 am

This is a great read, I appreciate the Thread and will be following it as this sounds like the greatest of adventures. I would love to go Tuna fishing some day on this rig.

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