Shellbacks Aubrey and Judy Millard, accompanied by another Shellback, Aaron Fenton, headed up the Pacific Coast of Mexico on their recent return to Toronto, just as borders were tightening in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Aubrey describes his blog entry below, and the blog entry itself is also supplied at the end of this post: Elliot Lake, Ontario March 24, 2020 Hi Folks, This is my first log in a long time, and it is probably one of my last few logs as we are bringing Veleda back to Canada, to its new home at the North Channel Yacht Club in Spragge, on the North Channel of Lake Huron. It is only a 25 minute drive from our apartment in Elliot Lake. We hopefully have sold Antares Spring which we have had up here for the past two years. We arrived from Mexico via the US last Friday March 13, and to Elliot Lake on the 14th. We were fortunate as it was just before the heavy restrictions on travel were instituted and we had absolutely no problems in returning across the Mexico/US or the US/Canadian borders. We are in the process of self isolating ourselves for 14 days before we resume any outside activities, most of which have been curtailed due to the Corona virus epidemic. This has given me a chance to write up this log of our travels to bring Veleda back home. I have brought Veleda from Bahia Del Sol in El Salvador up to Puerto Penasco on the northern tip of the Sea of Cortez in Mexico where we will leave it until the virus scare and restrictions have eased, after which we will have it shipped from there to Chicago. We will go down to Chicago and sail Veleda up to the North Channel, hopefully in June. Judy is stressed out and has had enough of long distance international sailing and will be glad to have Veleda back here. She did not want to even sail Veleda up from El Salvador and so I did it with some crew as described in this log. The passage was fraught with engine problems as you will read, but we got Veleda safely up to Puerto Penasco and ready to ship to Chicago. This is quite a detailed log of the first half of this 2100 mile passage, the next should be out within a week, as I have nothing else to do cocooned as we are in our comfortable apartment, Judy with her quilting and me with my laptop getting caught up on my logs and enjoying movies on Netflix. All the best, Aubrey
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