----- Original Message ---- From: Scott Bulger <scottebulger@gmail.com> To: dbruckel@earthlink.net; Passagemaking Under Power List <passagemaking-under-power@lists.samurai.com> Cc: Joe Bulger <joebulger@msn.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 4, 2007 10:20:32 AM Subject: Re: [PUP] Nordhavns headed south >Having discussed all this, I'm really wondering how the FUBAR is going to >play out? We were three boats sharing an ocean for 3 days. That's going to >be 60 boats for two weeks. I can only imagine the fun that's going to >result!!!! Excellent point! I was intially concerned about heading to Mexico in the company of 160 boats in the Ha Ha last year. But the Ha Ha's Grand Poohba, Richard Spindler wisely refused to give any recommended waypoints to get from one destination to another. He even refused to give a recommendation as whether to pass inside or outside San Benito Is near the entrance to Turtle Bay. He said, "Skipper, you're on your own." As it turned out everyone did their own thing on their on course and we rarely saw another boat even on radar after the intial departure. As I recall, the closest we came to anyone on the high seas was about two miles. Now the Mexican fishing boats around Ensenada is another issue. Scott, I want to discuss this with you as you get closer to the time of entering Mexican waters. I hope they do the same for the FUBAR. If they do give waypoints, Scott I highly recommend that you NOT follow them and go on your own route. Power boats will tend to follow those waypoints much more closely than sailboats and it will get congested. Don't get caught in the pack. Do your own thing. You will always be in radio contact with the fleet either by VHF or SSB. Colliding with a colleague boat would be of more concern and stress to me than my faithful John Deere conking out. BTW, we found it more convenient on our course to go inside San Benito. Well, I'm here in Baja with Hurricane Henriette passing over. Nasty weather but not life threatening or property damaging....yet. The surf outside my condo looks like the north shore of Oahu right now! Patrick Willard 40PH ALOHA La Paz, MX