Bolder Won

Seems Bolder Won is back in operation down on Isla Mujeres in Mexico, just a stone's throw from Cancun. All you high rollers call now and book your Mexican scuba/cruise adventure. Previous posts about this boat here.

Bolder Won

My old friend Ned sent me these pictures. Some notes:

I'm in Mexico got back involved with one of the vessels I had a hand in building. I was in Costa Rica the month of Dec. and saw a sea state I thought this vessel could handle. So the next thing I know I'm in Isla Mujeres Mexico bring this thing back to life. . . This vessel sat for over two years - I'm sure you can appreciate the amount of corrosion in the salt water environment. The zinc's were gone - electrolysis was rampant. I spent the last 5 months bring this thing back from the steps to oblivion...

It's been a long time since I've seen Ned, and it took me a while to realize that that was him in the pictures. Geez, his hair's gone gray.

Bolder Won, Part 2

Ned sent me some more photos of the boat he is working on. I'm starting to realize how big and unusual it is. The scoops on the side of the hulls look, um, cool? interesting? dangerous?



Part 1

Poem of the Day

Motion came silently
Behind my back
And as I turned to her,
She was music.

She told me:
“Music is the better part of a simple atom
To bridge chaos into a symphony.”

Music gave the star its twinkle
And she gave me my first smile.
Creation stands in honor to her melody.

Music told me she is the glue of happiness
And she is the mind
Behind particles in motion.

She fell like raindrops on my ears,
On the east side of an early morning
And on the west side of my private moon.

Her aroma keeps my heart alive
Like flowers in heaven
And the orchestra of a single rose
In early autumn.
                      (Unknown)


From Ned, of Bolder Won fame.

Alacranes Reef

Alacranes Reef Trip - Robbie Gomez
Music - Tamacún by Rodrigo Y Gabriela
My friend Ned is down in Mexico, off the coast of Yucatan. They're running the Bolder Won out to Alacranes Reef for fly fishermen and scuba divers.

Alacranes Reef, also known as Scorpion Reef

The reef is a protected area, so designated in 1971 by a convention in Ramsar, Iran. (Iran? That hotbed of mad muslim bombers? Well, 1971 was before the revolution.)
    Up until now I thought the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico were synonymous. They aren't. The Yucatan Peninsula and Cuba separate the two. The Caribbean Sea is to the south and east and the Gulf of Mexico is to the north and west.
    There are several other places of interest that could be marked on this map, like the Dry Tortugas, which are about as far west of Key West as Alacranes Reef is north of the Mexican coast. Then there is Treasure Island, site of the pig farm (it's the pinky-nail sized island south by southwest of Havana with the city of Nueva Gerona).