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LETTERS the small red crane has been living near the west end of the Google barge pier. At this point I am two to three boat lengths from the rocks as well. Here I make a left turn and aim for the tip of the ramp. This strategy lets me enter and exit the cove without heeling the boat over, dragging on the bottom, and other bad stuff. I even used this when I went out on New Year's Day. I got back into the cove with -1.5 tide, as I recall. I hope this helps." Melissa Litwicki Downtown Uproar, J/24 San Francisco Melissa — It would be nice if the government would use some of the billions of dollars we use to bribe corrupt officials in Iraq and Afghanistan to do a little dredging at Clipper Cove. Until that happens — look for snow in hell — watch those tides.
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⇑⇓PRESSING DRAGONFLY INTO SEA MERCY'S SERVICE Fourteen years ago we completed a homebuilt Hughes 60 catamaran that we started in Indianapolis and finished in Florida. Her hulls are similar to Latitude's Profligate, although we subsequently stretched her five feet. Based out of Florida, we then spent most winters cruising in the Caribbean. We're now starting a big change and new adventure in our lives. A few years back we had some guests aboard who had started a nonprofit organization called Sea Mercy. The mission of the program is to provide much-needed medical services and supplies to the remote islands of the South Pacific via boats. The more we heard about the program, the more we wanted to become involved, and soon signed up our Dragonfly to be one of the first boats in the fleet. Our cat's large platform is perfect to transport a variety of medical skills and supplies to the remote islands. So after we complete an adventurous 8,000-mile trip from Florida to Tonga, we will become a floating health clinic. With such a demanding trip ahead of us, we needed the boat and all systems to be in great shape, and to have adequate spares onboard. So we replaced the engines, purchased a new DC refrigerator and freezer, and installed more solar panels and a back-up autopilot. As you can imagine, the list of spares is pretty long. We also are changing our navigation system, which now will be based on the iPad and Mac, using WiFi to get data from the instruments. We left Florida on December 18 and, after a boisterous trip, arrived in Belize on the 22nd. By the time you read this, we should have passed through the Canal. We expect to be in Tonga by mid-June. Our crew for the various legs of the trip consists of people willing to donate their time and share of costs of getting Dragonfly to Tonga. As we say goodbye to the Caribbean, we will miss all those wonderful areas we cruised and the friends we made along the way. But we are looking forward to the adventurous journey and putting Dragonfly into service helping those in need. For more info on Sea Mercy, visit www.seamercy.org. Al & Jill Wigginton Dragonfly, Hughes 65 Florida Readers — Before having Profligate built, we flew to Indianapolis to see the Wiggintons, who had completed about a hull and a half and were offering to build boats for others. We passed. We didn't see them again until about 10 years later when they anchored in front of us in St. Barth. They not only completed the boat, they have covered a lot of ocean miles since then. We wish them a happy voyage.