Tom and Theresa's Travels

  Here is our boat!!! After searching Yacht World for a year and looking for that "perfect" boat, we finally found her!  Truth be told, no boat is perfect but we love her just the same.  :-) She's a 43' 2003 North Wind that was built in Spain and had only previous owner, Tom & Alissa (who were super nice and took great care of their boat).  It has a center cockpit, which allows you to stand up in our aft stateroom.  Other features I really appreciate include the swim deck, raised deck saloon (it makes it really bright inside), and the wide decks above.  We took possession & spent the first night on h er on Dec. 9, 2022.  Tom & Alissa named her Alegria, i.e. "Joy", which is a great name but we're changing the name to something personal to us (more on that later). Saloon & forward view Tom & Alissa - the original owners of Alegria Looking toward the galley and companionway One of the two heads/bathrooms  T's vanity/desk & closet

Jan. 3, 2023:  After we bought our boat, we had to wait until our boat insurance started before we could take her out of the marina.  Tom worked in the morning and then we left the marina during pretty low tide (negative tide actually).  The channel getting out of the marina is really narrow, busy, and shallow (i.e., kind of scary) so we fortunately had Patrick, a local sailor/mechanic/live aboard cruiser from London, go with us to help  navigate the channel and sail for the day.  We were out for over 5 hours and sailed about 15 nautical miles at a top speed of 8 knots.  Winds were between 15 & 20 mph and ocean swells were up to 6 feet at times.  Our bow, which has 4' of freeboard, actually dipped in the water a few times!  Tom did a great job navigating the sketchy channel coming back into the marina and docking.  It was a really fun and beautiful day.     Getting ready to go out Narrow, shallow, busy channel out of Mazatlán Marinas El Cid Resort Having a good day :-) P Safely