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Good Day, My name is A.J. Altonen of Ashtabula,Ohio. I am a avid sailor, but unfortunately it is only as crew/helmsman on my good friends Tartan 38. I just can not afford to purchase my own yet, but am working hard. I have three beautiful daughters under the age of 5. I love to read your site and others about cruising. I have plans in my head to cruise, some day. I take it that you may also hold a ham ticket. My call is KC8EPA. I frequently listen to the maritime moble net at 14.300mgz. I look forward to reading more about your adventures. Take care and God Bless, 73's A.J. Altonen  

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Nice Info.site! Very nice boat also! 73 Philip,on4qr your Winlink sysop for Belgium.

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...wonderful reading your accounts, especially Italy, where we travel frequently. Where are you now? What are your plans? George Blumberg, Oxford, UK & Naples, Italy. g.blumberg@oxin.co.uk  

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Love it! Alan & Chris Skittles  

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hi they are great. carl&bonnie from ohio from dancingwater 25mcgregor gave a safe trip god bless. e-mail sailman@wmconnect.com

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Peg & Tom, I am awed by the beauty of your home page, What a great idea and so perfect for all of us who are living vicariously through your experiences. Many thanks. I have invited many of your friends Tom, all friends of Bill W's to come to my 25th birthday on Sunday, April 14th at St Thomas Church. We have put together a dinner party the night before because all of our children will come to town (amazing) and a bunch of the grandchildren. Wish you two could be here too. If you can check our web page at pjrail.com My Best, Patti H.

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It's a great site. Lots of helpful links for the cruising sailor

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Hi to you both, I found your website while looking at the Valiant owner's page. I congratulate you on your wonderful travelogue. I just finished the 2001 entry and thoroughly enjoyed it. I especially like the many pictures you included, particularly those of the harbors and ruins you saw. I look forward to 2002! My wife and I retired in Nov, 2001 and have recently purchased a 1980 Valiant 37, "Skate." We're her third owner(s) and look forward to sailing to the horizons and enjoying the cruising lifestyle. I wish you continued good sailing and look forward to meeting you both someday, if our paths cross. Thanks for the good read! Bob McCorkle/Dee McCorkle

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hi guys! Caught your act in Malta ??? last year, keep up the wx reports on the net !!! Hope to see you in the Med next fall..."Shayna" is on the hard at Agua Dulce, we are Stateside but expect to join our canal boat "Tulip" in the N.L. in July Larry and Dorothy, N6VDZ

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Tom and Peg, Glad to see you are at it again. I look forward to your reports. I read them at work and it gives me a sense of escape. I love to sail and probably will never make a transatlantic crossing, so if you dont mind I will ride along with you. Al Altonen-KC8EPA

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Great Site! David W. Wilson "Shockwave"

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Great Stuff! Sailing with Tim Maynard gives us a bit of extra incentive to track Tom's travels (lucky Guy). Bob Spencer "Play Time" Brockport YC

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My wife and I love your site. We are planning a world circumnavigation with out two children. Ours will start in 2005. Your information is very helpful in planning our trip. Maybe our paths will cross.

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Dear Tom and Peg, What a marvelous Website!! We found your info about Marmaris particularly helpful. Will e-mail you when we get back to Different Drum in Kos. Turkey next stop. Take care. Regards, Gordon and Isobel Fyfe.

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Lived next to the Brights in Savannah, Ga when Craig was small boy. Boy did he marry into an adventurous family. My Air Force B-47 & T-39 pilot days took me over much of your sailing waters, crossing Atlantic, Spain, Portugal, Italy,Greece, and Turkey. Your version sounds more fun. Your web page is OUTSTANDING!!!H.P. Fletcher

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A very interesting and informative site. I read all your trip reports and must say that Peg is a talented writer. I also copied most of your beautiful photos because I am collecting also visual information for my future circumnavigation. Best regards, Jordan Totev, s/v "Cormorant", port Sozopol, Bulgaria e-mail jtotev@yahoo.com

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Hi to Tom and Peg from Bob and Dianne Flemming on Critical Mass currently in Jacksonville Fl until the holidays. We were ouf touch with you for awhile due to one of us going overboard at dock with BOTH pocketmail and cellfone. I finally smartened up and contacted Tim for your website,etc. Your website is great! Hoowooda thot! More later I am at alibrary. Bob

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Thank you, Tom and Peg, for the excellent stories and pictures of your journey. I am not a cruiser, but I have owned a small sailboat and I love everything about sailing. I have followed you both for a couple of years now, so I feel like I almost know you. Please keep going forever. Sam and Marcia Fullerton

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Wonderfully interesting website. Keep it up. Excellent work. Chris and Maggie S/Y Lady Cassandra of Durham

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Patty and Jim, Great to have a web site. Bernie and Flo Pitts

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Hello Peg and Tom from Jim and Diane on ALERT, last seen in Malta, 2001. We sailed to Martinique from the Cape Verdes in January 2002 and are now back home in Maine. Re-rigging to full junk for sailing New England and Nova Scotia coasts this summer. Hope this catches up with you and finds you well. Fair Winds! <onalert@pocketmail.com>

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Have been enjoying your site very much - keeping me motivated whilst waiting for our departure from the UK in April to the Med. We are retiring early to "get a life"!

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Hi. My name is Graham. I live in Perth Western Australia. I'm thinking of going Turkey August/September. Your site has been very helpful. Thanks

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Great Website, I like a lot your comments and nice pictures I've also appreciated the Ham section very complete and useful. As some others comments, It would be nice to share to us your great experience in a do & don'ts. Jean-Pierre from Argonaute III preparing a voyage in the southern ocean for this summer. Fair wind nd following seas. jpdenjean@wanadoo.fr

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Your website is easy to read and maneuver through. My name is Louise Huckaby and my sailing partner is Chris McCurry. We own the s/v "Landover" a Valient 32 and are preparing her for our world circum- navigation leaving San Francisco in the Summer of 2004 heading south to Mexico, Central America, Galapagos then west to the Marquesis and all of the South Pacific; continuing to New Zealand, Australia, Africa (around the horn and up into Europe; back to the US and Caribbean, then through the Panama Canal home. We both live in Fair Oaks California (that's near Sacramento, California). This is a very rough description of our plans, as we will probably be modifying them as we go. We plan to "stay gone" as long as we are enjoying the cruising life (4 years to ? ? ? ? whenever). Thank you for sharing your cruising life with all of us. We'll keep in touch.

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Great web site and we were particularly interested in the Atlantic Spain and Portugal cruise as we are are taking our Countess 33 Ketch from Wales to Gibraltar this year - lots of useful info for us. Fair winds for 2003. Garry & Maureen Jones ABRAXAS

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Love it and wonder how we would do a web site for I Wanda! We are not very computer literate. Understand Jimmy Cornell has web sites for cruisers... Thanks for sending all your passage notes via e-mail! We read them again and again! Mary & Christian Verlaque, s/v I Wanda

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Hello, I appreciate the way you are enjoying and sailing the world. We are planning a circumnavigation trip by the end of this year. Its people like you who inspire us. All the best srinivas

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Love your site! We are preparting to start cruising from Florida after hurricane season this year. Sold the house last year, children all gone--SO excited! We will continue to check you out--bon voyage!! Tony & Sandy Bullard aboard s/v Columbine

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Great pictures, I enjoyed your web page. You may want to check me out at www.geocities.com/svsouthernmagic Capt neil

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Great site, I realy enjoy reading about your trip. Jim Bartlett Orlando, Florida U.S.A.

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Interesting website and well done. Two super people, Peg and Tom, are generous to "take us along" on their cruise! Emily and Tommy Brown, "Divine Miss EM"

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Just a note to tell you we love your homepage. Keep up the good work. Hope to cross paths next summer. Jack and Crissie Staats s/v Iona Cartagena, Spain

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I am aboard Southern Magic and plan to sail around the world leaving from south west Florida in less than a year. I am looking for crew, see my web page www.geocities.com/svsouthernmagic Capt Neil

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Very fine web site. Greetings from an italian sailor. Frankie ik8teo@amsat.org

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Hi Peg & Tom: Last night George Schenck gave me your website address. I'm going to enjoy reading the "archives" - great reporting and photography. I have wonderful memories of our cruising in then-Yugoslavia in summer 1979. I pulled our Log to compare comments about Hvar, Trogir, Split, etc. There were very few international cruising yachts in those days. The currency was the dinar. The plum preserves were world famous! Keep well and safe...Maureen Anderson dinars.

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Its Sunday night and I have had a good sail on Lake Travis, Tx and spent the better part of 3 hours in the most enjoyable venture--the reading of your "logs". There is no doubt you are wonderful people--enjoying what you are doing and have done. Your writings are wonderful and will make for a good dream tonight. Bless you and yours and may all your sea's be right. Glenn West, Lago Vista, Texas (glennwest@assetins.com) 9/14/03

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Thanks so much for taking the time to share your travels. Especially liked the sharp pictures.Bob N in Maine. Formerly on Capricon II, a Bristol 26(before we lost our agility)

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Very nice site, I like to read about your travels and to see the pictures, keep up the good work. Regards, Adriano  

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My wife and I thoroughly enjoy reading about your circumnavigation. We're both glad to see you have started the second leg of your journey and wish you a safe passage.

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Hi... I just "stumbled" upon your web page. It's great, but I think you could include some more details that others can find helpful -hints and so on. I live in Athens and if you are planning to sail to Greece feel free to e-mail for any info you may need.

Warmest regards Yannis (presently Zodiac owner but planning a substantial purchase in the near future)  

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A fascinating journey. Hope to do same in future. Find information useful, as a lot of learning is needed to upgrade from current Trailer- sailor , a Comet 20. Henry Engelman - Melbourne, Australia.  

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We're planning something like what you're doing in a few years so we're watching your adventures with interest. We'll probably do something similar with the www and with ham radio to keep our friends up to date on our progress. Right now, we're still learning to sail. 

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Hi guys: beautiful pictures- Malta ones very clear. hope all is well. we went to duck, NC -outer banks and loved it, saw a few wild horses on the beach at corolla. happy sailing. jen otto-brenner  

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I DO LIKE THIS WEB SITE. I APPRECIATE THE DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS. Encouragements aux symphatiques auteurs. alain b. 

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Enjoy reading about your travels and visiting your excellent web site. Heading out on a circumnavigation in mid-2002. Hope to see you somewhere on the journey.  

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Nice web-page. Great to see folks "Out there, Doing It". V40, always one of my favorite Blue Water boats. Looks like fun. Fair Winds Ken in Orlando, Florida, USA  

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