DownWest
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Oh Wandsy! Another of your dreams shattered.....
Sailing around the world on a budget
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Frank Holden
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About as far south as I have seen people swimming is Antofagasta - I've swum there. Mejillones ditto. A bit further north Iquique - another sailing ship port from the good old days of the nitrate trade - I remember it well - is a major holiday destination for Bolivians and people from western Brasil. The swimming there is seriously good.
I can recommend it to Wansy and others as a good destination.
Oh and also these places aren't on the edge of the Atacama - they are in the Atacama.
I can recommend it to Wansy and others as a good destination.
Oh and also these places aren't on the edge of the Atacama - they are in the Atacama.
Wansworth
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Oh well always fancied the name…..Sting even wrote a song about it!
Wansworth
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Not particularly inviting waterfront view
Frank Holden
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Beats Bognor
Wansworth
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DownWest
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Read a novel a long time ago. Bloke in some place in the SOF, had a rough small boat and was dreaming of cruising to Valparaiso. Details a bit absent now but after some hassle, he set off in the unprepared boat, The 'hassle' had the mlitary chasing him and they shelled him. Sunk..
Looked on Amazon for it, but nothing obvious. Possibly Rene Jouglet..
capnsensible
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The margin is fine though....
Wansworth
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Sounds more exotic than Bognor
Frank Holden
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It's that bad its good. Major railhead for cargo into and out of Bolivia and western Brazil, a huge but derelict railway workshop. Nada mas.Sounds more exotic than Bognor
One building of note - the port captain's.
Major point about this coast - no crowds.
Wansworth
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Is the seawater cold?
Frank Holden
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Not as cold as further south.
I think about 20ºC maybe. This is about as far south as I have seen people swimming.
I think about 20ºC maybe. This is about as far south as I have seen people swimming.
Frank Holden
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Back on track. It's not a bad destination for the sailor on a frugal budget. If you so desire you can sail the entire coast without once using a marina. Labour costs are reasonable .
It also takes a long time to sail to and I don't know about the rest of you but I don't eat much on passage - no 3 course dinners.
It also takes a long time to sail to and I don't know about the rest of you but I don't eat much on passage - no 3 course dinners.
BobnLesley
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We definitely fall into the has-beens bracket: 2003-11 we sailed UK to/around the Med for 7 months of each year returning home to work the winters, before buying a bigger (35') boat in Greece and heading west: Atlantic - S America - Caribbean - USA - back to Caribbean/Panama - Pacific Islands. We were visiting home when Covid arrived and the boat was in NZ; we've not done any serious sailing since and I don't anticipate that changing.
Frank Holden
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Yup, Covid was a bitch. Pretty much everything stopped for me except the ageing process.
All I've managed to do since is get the boat back from Ecuador to Chile.
Still trying to get the wheels turning properly again.
Blueboatman
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Ain’t that the truth though?
“Men and boats rot in harbour”
So, I suppose a simple small boat remains “ small boat, small problem”
I read my way as a kid through the great French sailors’ writings of self reliance and simplicity .
And I loved the idea of the philosophy
If it breaks throw it out!
Have any of us really managed to simplify and de clutter our complex cruising floating machines though for every long?
“Men and boats rot in harbour”
So, I suppose a simple small boat remains “ small boat, small problem”
I read my way as a kid through the great French sailors’ writings of self reliance and simplicity .
And I loved the idea of the philosophy
If it breaks throw it out!
Have any of us really managed to simplify and de clutter our complex cruising floating machines though for every long?
Frank Holden
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I'm battling to declutter my life.
Blueboatman
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I’ve always raised the waterline on new to me boats- and then battled to stay under it!
Frank Holden
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Moving right along and heading right off topic once again.
This is for Wandsy.
Previous pics showed murky water - I thought it was industrial pollution at the time but was some dying sea creatures.
Normally looked like this first pic... my Belgian crew mate Tin Tin with Snowy. Bloke on the right is my chum Carlos Solar - one of a very small number of Chilean circumnavigators.
In the background a Lancha Chilota which had somehow found its way up north and which I actually got to sail on.
This is for Wandsy.
Previous pics showed murky water - I thought it was industrial pollution at the time but was some dying sea creatures.
Normally looked like this first pic... my Belgian crew mate Tin Tin with Snowy. Bloke on the right is my chum Carlos Solar - one of a very small number of Chilean circumnavigators.
In the background a Lancha Chilota which had somehow found its way up north and which I actually got to sail on.
Wansworth
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Great pictures,not at all off topic,news of rarely visited places are very welcome…….even if Idontget out the ria
