JATIMO
IN LATITUDES driving, the Kiwis are really friendly. In fact, they treat you like long lost relatives." The couple might not have come back were it not for health issues with parents and the arrival of grandkids. While in Sydney, somebody gave them a copy of Latitude 38 which noted a sailing of a Dockwise Yacht Transport ship from Sydney to Ensenada last July. So the couple, and a number of other cruisers, signed up for it. But a week before the ship was to set sail, they were informed that the trip was cancelled! This threw the spanner into the works for a lot of cruising couples. A Sydney shipping agent tried to 'help' out by putting them on another ship. The problem was that it would have cost twice as much and the boat would have been dropped off in Panama. Gee thanks, but no thanks. Rolling with the cancellation by sailing up to the Queensland coast of Australia for six months, Jan and Ramona finally got Jatimo on a Dockwise ship that arrived in Ensenada in February. "We got 20% off for signing up five months in advance, and 5% more off for having our
originally scheduled trip cancelled," reports Jan. "It came out to $12,000 and change. It helped that we had a smaller boat, because the price quickly goes up with boat size. A number of friends with larger boats couldn't afford to ship their boats, and had to sail them all the way back home." Once Jatimo arrived in Ensenada, the couple rented a mobile home in the Rancho Mi Refugio campground outside of Ensenada so Baja Naval Marina could paint the boat and do a few other jobs. When Miller last had the boat painted 18 years ago, he stripped everything off the boat that he could, then had Nelson's Boatyard spray it. This time he told Baja Naval to just mask everything off — and
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was pretty happy with the result. Getting the deck, topside, and bottom painted, as well as some other relatively minor job, came to $10,000. The only thing that bothered Jan was that he wasn't allowed — supposedly because of insurance reasons — to do his own mechanical work on the bottom. As it was, he had
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After recently finishinig a four-year South Pacific cruise on their Odyssey 30 'Jatimo', Jan and Ramona might take off again this winter.
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