I am forewarding a post from a Cheoy Lee 52 which left the Florida Gulf Coast about a year ago and is now in the La Paz area, via the Galapagos and Equidor. This is their most recent posting, redacted to remove personal information: > February, 19th we left Puerto Moreno, San Cristobal, Galapagos for the > 2,100 nautical mile trip directly to La Paz, Mexico. Our 15 day voyage was an > adventure and a success. It's our longest voyage ever, and could be the > second longest of a circumnavigation. The highlight of the voyage, if you > can call it that, was the weather for the last five days. We pure got the > snot beat out of us. None of the weather predictions picked up on it > until it was over. We got sandwiched between a very strong high pressure to the > west, and a very strong low to the east. That gave us two days of gale > force winds out of the north, and three days of near gale force. We had > waves consistently to 15 feet and occasionally to 20 feet. We took green > water over the bow three times. That has never happened to us before. > There was no place to run for shelter. Moon Angel is one tough little > ship. > > When we arrived near La Paz, we anchored for three days in a protected > cove to rest, clean up, and dry out before going into Marina Costabaja, La Paz > for formal check in. This last week we've done a bunch of maintenance work, > especially projects that are made easier by having a dock to work from. > We discovered that, while not severe, the damage from the Captain Soto > incident was more extensive than previously evaluated. I spent two of the work > days re-attaching and strengthening a section of the swim platform. > > Our plan is to leave La Paz Wednesday and head back out to the islands. > We'll probably spend the rest of April in the Sea of Cortez and then use > May to work our way up the Pacific coast to Ensenada. This plan will put us > north of the Pacific hurricane belt by the June 1st start of the season. >From all I can find out, this is a "off the shelf", mid 80's Cheoy Lee 52 motor yacht--not the larger 55 Long Range Cruiser" I believe that the power is cat 3208's NA. Bob Austin