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We Made the Front Page of “The Log”

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We are pleased to announce that there is a story about us on the front page of the Southern California Editition of The Log newspaper that came out on June 12th. The Log is a popular California fishing and boating paper that comes out bi-weekly. Apparently, there is more than one edition. We were confused when two different people told us they saw the story on us in The Log because the paper we had in hand didn’t have a peep about us. It turns out we are not in the “San Diego” edition, which is what we had, just the “Southern California” edition. The Log is a free newspaper readily found in marinas, boating stores, and any other business that targets the boating/fishing community, so if you are near a boating community in Orange County/LA, you can pick up a hard copy. For those of you who don’t have such easy access to the paper, you can get a free digital subscription. Just remember to click on Southern California edition, not San Diego, if you want to read the story about us!

Also, Nordhavn recently posted a story about us on their site, as well.

Dana Point Nordhavn Dock Party Tuesday, May 26

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Once again we interrupt blog time with a real time announcement. We will be in Dana Point on Tuesday, May 26 to celebrate our circumnavigation with the staff of Nordhavn. They will be having a dock party at 4pm. If you can make it, send us an e-mail. Address and directions: 24703 Dana Drive, Dana Point, CA 92629, directions.

Alas it will not be an open house to see Kosmos, but it will be a chance to see us and a bunch of the Nordhavn folks that made our trip possible. We hope to see you there!

Reminder for Kosmos Return to San Diego, Saturday May 02

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Just a reminder, see the Where in the World Are We post. It has information on where to see us on our return to San Diego on Saturday, May 02, 2009.

Also, as we get back into the land of fast Internet we can tweak the blog a bit. For example we have added 3 new sub-categories of Boat Technical, which are: Maintenance, Repair, and Failure.

In general our categories are pretty accurate, but we may have missed some. If you think any stories are miscategorized let us know.

Where in the World Are We?

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We interrupt “blog time” to bring you a “real time” announcement”¦ Yesterday, April 21st, 2009, at 1730 Pacific time, we officially completed our world wide circumnavigation! No, we aren’t back in San Diego yet. We are in Ensenada, Mexico, but since we have been to Ensenada on Kosmos before, we technically “tied the knot” when we arrived here.

We plan to complete our San Diego to San Diego World Circumnavigation on Saturday, May 2. Several people have said they would like to see us physically pull into San Diego, so we are going to have a “Welcoming” at the public dock on Coronado Island, which is behind the restaurant named Peohe’s at 1210 First Street, Coronado, CA 92118. Our welcoming is not associated with Peohe’s, so don’t wander in there looking for us, come right out to the dock.

We should be arriving to the dock around 10:00 am, depending on how long it takes to clear customs. We plan to stay at the dock about two hours or so. This is not a party there won’t be food or drinks. It is not an open house, either we won’t be giving tours or rides on board Kosmos. But we will visit with everyone who comes out to welcome us home. We are excited to see our friends and family again on that day, and looking forward to meeting any blog readers who may decide to come out.

We know, we know”¦ you probably want to know why the blog says we are in Dominica when we are really in Ensenada. Think about it logically. We write a journal entry every day, but we only post 5 days a week. Over the 2 years, we have fallen progressively farther behind real time.

But wait”¦ now that you are done, will the blog postings stop? No, we’ll continue to post our daily journal in “blog time” through to the end of the trip, so you have several more months worth of posts to look forward to. And there are some good stories coming up! For example our trip through the Panama canal, white water rafting in Costa Rica, anchoring in 40 knot winds in Nicaragua, eating tacos pastor in Huatulco, our trip summary, and many more.