to back storms with winds to 50-knots struck the Tuzi Gazi Marina where R Sea Cat is currently berthed, Mike and Deanna can guess the reason for the nickname. Cruising can be hard on couples, but Steve Felton and Nikki Bailey — 'Nikki and Wikki' — of the Tacoma-based Hylas 44 Penn Station have done great for the last year. Latitude readers might recall that they became a couple when then friend Nikki helped Steve deliver his boat from Tacoma to San Diego for the start of the 2015 Baja Ha-Ha. In a scene right out of a chick flick, they were about to go their seperate ways in San Diego when they both realized they loved each other. Having enjoyed many adventures across the Pacific, the young couple are now "at our new home in Auckland, New Zealand". Well done! T-Mobile device service works pretty well along Baja. The Wanderer and de Mallorca both have a low cost, noncontract T -Mobile plans that provide unlimited phone, data and text in Mexico and Canada, just like they were in the United States. The data is 2G, but it
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Steve and Nikki up in the Sea of Cortez after doing the 2015 Ha-Ha. They are calling Auckland their "new home".
wasn't horribly slow in Turtle Bay, Santa Maria or Cabo San Lucas. And after leaving Cabo, we had data as much as 14 miles offshore. Some people report their phones have chirped — and messages
have been received — as much as 40 miles offshore. "I was very disappointed when I read the October issue Changes from the crew of the San Diego-based Sundeer 56 Tamarisk, as I feel the last thing that lifestyle cruisers need is to have reputable magazines such as Latitude 38 showcasing macho types with illegally obtained weapons on cruising boats." So writes Peter Nicolle of Malaysia. "Not only were the weapons unnecessary, considering that there hasn't been a pirate versus yacht incident in the northwest Indian Ocean for years, and that yachts are now regularly transiting the Red Sea without incident. But it also gives officials in Third World countries reason to believe that cruising yachts are carrying guns. We cruisers already have enough problems with the belief that we are carrying drugs, illegal migrants, and prostitutes. Please think before you publish this kind of article." We'll let each reader decide for themself if the Tamarisk crew was being macho or being prudent. If officials are causing cruisers problems because they
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