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Thursday, November 5, 2009
Helping the Out Islands with School Supplies
With help from family and friends, we were able to collect several hundred books and school supplies to send to 12 different schools for some remote outer islands. Two boxes went to a high school in Kuajalein where there are two World Teach volunteers. Another seven boxes went to elementary schools on various other out islands where there are World Teach volunteers. We have another three boxes that are ready to go to the remote atoll of Ebon where there are no World Teach volunteer but they do have Marshallese teachers. The hold up is finding a boat going to this remote place. We know that these books and supplies will be greatly appreciated.
If you are cleaning out your childrens books getting ready for Christmas, think of these children, some of whom have never seen a book, and send us a package which we will then send on to these kids. You can send a box USPS, via MEDIA MAIL which is relatively cheap considering other charges to send things to: Mieco Beach Yacht Club, School Supplies, General Delivery, Majuro, Marshall Islands 96960. Your donation will be greatly appreciated.
HAWKEYE is a Sirena 38 built in Finland in 1984. She is 38 feet long and has a 10 foot 3 inch beam. Her fractional-rig mast is 55 feet tall and she carries a lot of sail (682 sq. ft.). She weighs 12,000 lb and about 15,000 fully loaded and is powered with an 18 hp 2 cylinder Volvo diesel engine. Steering is provided by an auto pilot and wind steering vane; live-aboard equipment includes refrigeration, water maker, 4 solar panels, VHF and HF radios with email access via the winlink system, radar, a ten foot Aquapro dinghy with 15 hp Yamaha engine.
John was born in England October 18, 1933. He married and moved to Canada in 1960 after completing his education as an engineer. He & his family moved to Seattle in 1964.
John owned a 26 foot Thunderbird sloop
and, later, a Cal 40. He raced the latter in the 1986 Victoria to Maui race, placing 3rd overall.
In 1993, after selling his interest in the Cal 40, he bought the Sirena 38 HAWKEYE. He departed from California for Mexico in 1994 and has been cruising since then.
Linda was born in Joliet, IL, July 9, 1941. In 1968 she moved to California with her family and divorced in 1979. In 1986, she purchased a Explorer 45 sailboat named HINANO and lived on it until she 1995 when she sold it and went cruising as crew on Jim and Diana Jessie's Lapworth 48, NALU IV.
Christmas, 1995, Jim Jessie introduced Linda to John in Zihuatenajo, Mexico. They saw each other over the next two years in different anchorages and towns in Mexico.
In May, 1997 they found themselves crew on a Freya 39, IOLANTHE, sailing to the South Pacific. They returned to Mexico and have been together on HAWKEYE since that time.
In 2000, after cruising Mexico for several years, we decided to head further south to Central America. Over the next few years we explored Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.
We crewed with folks taking their boats through the Panama Canal and decided we would rather go down towards South America instead of going to the Caribbean. Two wonderful years of exploring Ecuador, Colombia and Peru and we were ready to head across to the Galapagos and then the Pacific Islands where we have been exploring ever since.
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