I received the following from John on Frajola, which is of interest to anyone thinking of cruising to Ecuador.
" Ecuador is a good country to tour with interesting scenery, peoples and old cities, cheap bus travel and cost of living. Unfortunately, recent changes for clearing in and out by yacht have made it dearer than any other country, due to the high agent fees and greedy officials. Therefore most of us would not recommend it as a cruising destination."
Trevor Robertson and Annie Hill
Aboard Iron Bark
About Me
- Annie Hill
- In 1975 I made my first Atlantic passage in 'Stormalong', a 28ft James Wharram-designed, 'Tane' catamaran. Then Pete and I had an ex 6-metre racing yacht, 'Sheila', for about 4 years. But we wanted to do more, go further and have a boat that we could completely trust, so we built 'Badger' - the best boat in the world - and sailed her for 110,000 miles, up into the Arctic, down into the Antarctic, around the Atlantics North and South and into the Baltic. She had junk rig - the only rig for cruising, as far as I am concerned. Then Pete wanted something new, so we built a 38 ft junk-rigged catamaran, 'China Moon', which Pete designed. But before the project was quite finished, he and I went our separate ways. A year later Trevor Robertson came into my life and seduced me with promises of more ocean wanderings in his beautiful steel 'Iron Bark'. In this boat we spent a winter in Greenland, crossed the Pacific, visited Australia and explored New Zealand. I fell in love with NZ and decided I'd like to base myself there for a while. Trevor wanted to carry on cruising, so I bought a Raven 26 to live on, promising to join him for a couple of months every year in exciting places.
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