Hi to everyone, I am called Benno and my wife is Marlene. We have been cruising since the summer of 05 on our Diesel Duck 41, named the same (with the designer's consent). Our Duck was built in Canada on Lake Ontario. List founder Georgs Kolesnikovs connected us in Oct. 1998 with a professional yard in Belleville, Ont., who built our Diesel Duck in aluminum. (Thank you Georgs:-) Since 05 we cruised down the ICW, have done the Caribbean circuit three times and transited the Panama canal last year. At this writing we are stocking up with food and fuel in Puerto Montt, Chile, to venture further down into the Patagonian canals. When we have access to wifi (there won't be any in the Patagonian canals) we enjoy reading through the passagemaking under power list and the interesting comments from the cruising members. We'll contribute every so often. Best Regards, Benno Klopfer

Benno and Marlene, Sounds very interesting. I presume that since you have limited internet access, you are not chronicling your travels through a log/blog. I sure many of us that are for the moment shoreside would appreciate hearing more about your travels if and when you have the time and access. Safe Travels, David On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Benno Klopfer <bennoklopfer@yahoo.com>wrote: > Hi to everyone, > I am called Benno and my wife is Marlene. We have been > cruising since the summer of 05 on our Diesel Duck 41, named the same (with > the designer's consent). Our Duck was built in Canada on Lake Ontario. > List > founder Georgs Kolesnikovs connected us in Oct. 1998 with a professional > yard > in Belleville, Ont., who built our Diesel Duck in aluminum. (Thank you > Georgs:-) > Since 05 we cruised down the ICW, have done the Caribbean circuit > three times and transited the Panama canal last year. At this writing we > are > stocking up with food and fuel in Puerto Montt, Chile, to venture further > down > into the Patagonian canals. > When we have access to wifi (there won't be any in > the Patagonian canals) we enjoy reading through the passagemaking under > power > list and the interesting comments from the cruising members. We'll > contribute > every so often. > Best Regards, Benno Klopfer > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/passagemaking-under-power > > To unsubscribe send email to > passagemaking-under-power-request@lists.samurai.com with the word > UNSUBSCRIBE and nothing else in the subject or body of the message. > > Passagemaking Under Power and PUP are trademarks of Water World > Productions, formerly known as Trawler World Productions.