Date/time: June 15, 2006, 12:00 local (24:00z) Position at noon: 53D00.656'N 158D38.960'E Crew: Ben, Brad, Kevin & Kurt Remarks: Better luck today. Nothing happening at 09:30 so we pulled anchor and headed to our guard boat. They quickly came on deck and got excited. We said we wanted them to take a picture of our boat but no way, they said don't come close and set your anchor again so we did and shortly a pilot boat came with a pilot and took us to shore where we met Sanitation, Immigration and Customs. With them was our loyal helper, Alex who did interpreting and became a good friend. He is part of 3 people here who have been working for us even though we didn't know it. After paperwork we met the other 2 friends Oojin and Alexay who have all done a considerable amount of world sailing and wanted to help fellow sailors. Alex had to go back to work, so Ooojin toured us around and took us to a great economical grocery store for supplies where the lady manager gave us a free bottle of Champaign for our extensive purchases. Next all 3 came to the boat plus Alex's beautiful girlfriend and we drank and ate and told stories till after midnight. Tomorrow Alex will drive us around then another get together at the boat tomorrow night. -- Ben Gray Idlewild Custom Buehler 55 powered by a 55-hp Kubota Home port: Dunvegan, Alberta http://www.idlewildexpedition.ca http://dieselducks.com/Idelwild.html http://www.trawlersandtrawlering.com http://www.kamchatkapeninsula.com/city.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky http://www.adventurephotographs.com/kamchatka/petropavlovsk/index.asp To follow Idlewild with Google Earth: http://tinyurl.com/ksnhg For the Trawler M/V JPEG version: http://tinyurl.com/ovdt7

PUP wrote: > Date/time: June 15, 2006, 12:00 local (24:00z) > Position at noon: 53D00.656'N 158D38.960'E > Crew: Ben, Brad, Kevin & Kurt > Remarks: > Better luck today. > Nothing happening at 09:30 so we pulled anchor and headed to our guard boat. Ben, I have a project in the planning stages that would follow in your footsteps. I intend to cull all your posts for the past few weeks and study them. If I did not have to go to sea tonight, I would study them now. Instead I have a question about visiting/stopping at Kamchatka. Could you describe with details the process you went to get the Russian Visa's and permission to stop. I am not likely to be around to follow any posts or email until Monday (our time). I need the info by Tues, as we would pull out of Hong Kong in 10 days. Thanks, Mike _____________________________________ Capt. Mike Maurice Beaverton Oregon(Near Portland)

Mike Maurice wrote: > PUP wrote: >> Date/time: June 15, 2006, 12:00 local (24:00z) >> Position at noon: 53D00.656'N 158D38.960'E >> Crew: Ben, Brad, Kevin & Kurt >> Remarks: >> Better luck today. >> Nothing happening at 09:30 so we pulled anchor and headed to our guard boat. > Ben, > I have a project in the planning stages that would follow in your > footsteps. I intend to cull all your posts for the past few weeks and > Ben, I apologize, I would be wasting your time. I found some stuff on this in an old post. It does not sound very inviting, but at least I know the scheme. Thanks anyway. Mike