Voyaging with Velella: Sailing by the wind in Mexican waters

8:46 PM Thu 30 Dec 2010 GMT

'Savouring Mexico' SY Velella

American Sailing Association writer-at-large Meghan Cleary continues her tales of sailing in Velella, this week throwing plans away and deciding to stay in Mexico. Meghan,her partner Prescott and their kitten Nessie are on a planned 9-month cruise in the tropics: . Red sky at night, sailor?s delight. I love it when those sayings about weather turn out to be true. Makes me feel like a real old salt. Like how my last sight of the evening sky looked like this, and this morning the lagoon is pure glass. White flocks of egrets? wings flap across the still water along knotted ...

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by Meghan Cleary, American Sailing Association

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