MIRADOR'S ADVENTURES
Jerry King and Arlene Nicholson maintain
this site so their families, friends, and anyone else can keep up with
their adventures on Mirador, a 1995 Caliber 40 Sailboat. They sailed from
Tacoma Washington to San Diego in the autumn of 2000. In the spring of 2001
they sold their Puget Sound home to cruise full time on Mirador in Western
Mexico. They returned to Puget Sound in late 2004 and kept
Mirador at a dock on the Thea Foss waterway in downtown Tacoma. 
While sailing in Puget Sound on a rainy winter day in in early August 2010 Jerry decided it was time to take Mirador back to a sunny warm climate. Jerry and his two brothers, Jim and John, left Puget Sound on September 1 and arrived at Oceanside in Southern California on September 15. Mirador then reached her new semi-permanent home in San Diego Bay on September 18, 2010. You can read all about the trip and see lot's of video and still photos at #Tacoma San Diego 2010 or just scroll down the page.
Mirador is currently ( Spring 2012) at D dock in Sunroad Marina (Sunroad
Marina Homepage) on Harbor
Click here to see Mirador in San Diego Harbor - a Google Earth image
SHORT TERM PLANS
We are still trying
to decide if we want to leave Mirador in San Diego until the Fall 2012 Mexican
cruising season or maybe take her to La Paz and the Sea of Cortez for the summer
of 2012
Arlene will spend several months on Mirador during 2012 and will decide about retirement sometime in the next year or so. Jerry will spend more time on Mirador in Mexico (San Diego??) but will commute to Tacoma as long as Arlene continues to work for the Tacoma Municipal Water utility. Jerry is spending about half his time on Mirador in San Diego. He works on the boat a little bit and does a lot of bicycle riding.
The picture below is Mirador in Echo Bay on Succia Island in the north part of the San Juan Islands - about 85 miles NW of Seattle and just south of the Canadian border . Jerry's brother Jim is standing on the bow. Jim will be helping Jerry sail to San Diego.
CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS & PHOTOS OF MIRADOR
Read about our ownership & brief history of our travels with Mirador A HISTORY OF MIRADOR
How is Mirador different than any other Caliber 40?
SOUTHBOUND TO SAN DIEGO - September 2010
Click here to see Miradors Tacoma to San Diego Playlist - this will take you to YouTube where we have 16 HiDef videos showing our 2010 trip to San Diego
TACOMA TO SAN DIEGO - THEORY AND PLANNING Plans for Heading South
A WALK AROUND MIRADOR IN CRUISING TRIM YouTube Video - Walk Around Mirador
HEAD WINDS EVERY WHERE How to get out of Puget Sound?
FLARES AND NEW CREW Day One to Kingston
NON-STOP TO MONTEREY?? Escape from Puget Sound
NON-STOP TO MONTEREY?? Gale Alley Shows it's Stuff
WAITING FOR A WEATHER WINDOW Waiting in Newport
WHEN CAN WE HEAD SOUTH? Still Waiting in Newport
STILL TRYING FOR MONTEREY Will We Ever Get There?
ONE MORE TRIP TO MONTEREY Is There a Slip for Mirador at Monterey?
SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL TO OCEANSIDE Warm Water and Warm Wind - Finally!
ON TO MIRADOR'S NEW HOME ON TO A NEW HOME
PUGET SOUND SAILING STORIES
PREPARING MIRADOR FOR A TRIP TO SAN DIEGO How Much Work Can it BE?
STRANGE NEW GIG HARBOR STRUCTURES August 2010
MY WINTER
CRUISE BEGINS IN AUGUST September 1, 2008
TACOMA TALL SHIPS FESTIVAL July 4, 2008
MIRADOR SUFFERS IN THE SNOW! Dock Street Snow
MEXICAN LOGS FOR
2004
CLICK ON ANY DATE or
BLUE TEXT TO SEE OUR THOUGHTS
FROM THAT PERIOD
MV WELL
DESERVED June_4_2004
MIRADOR -
ABANDONED IN PUERTO ESCONDIDO June_1_2004
CAT'S MEOW
- SAFE AT HOME IN PUERTO ESCONDIDO May_25_2004
MV CAT'S
MEOW - AGROUND AND FLOODED May_22_2004
FOOD &
WATER May_15_2004
LORETOFEST
2004 May_12_2004
THE LA PAZ
MALECON April_27_2004
THE EASY
WAY NORTH April_16_2004
HEADED
SOUTH FOR LA PAZ April_9_2004
PLANNED
TO GO SOUTH - ACTUALLY HEADED NORTH March_27_2004
IN
THE WATER - SHINY AND NEW March_13_2004
A
WHOLE NEW ANCHORING SYSTEM February_16_2004
BACK TO LA PAZ AND A BEAUTIFUL NEW BOAT February_8_2004
FOUR MOST FREQUENT QUESTIONS ABOUT HURRICANE MARTY
Click on any of the red links to go to that page
READ A LOT OF OPINIONS ABOUT SEA OF CORTEZ ANCHORAGES Sea of Cortez
Anchorages
HURRICANE MARTY & REPAIRS TO MIRADOR Hurricane Marty
READ THE LOGS FOR 2003 YEAR 2003 LOGS
READ THE LOGS FOR NOV 2001 THRU CHRISTMAS 2002 YEAR 2002 LOGS
READ THE LOGS OF PREVIOUS VOYAGES July 1999 thru November 2001
? HOW DID WE GET TO THIS PLACE IN LIFE? Background
? BOAT INFORMATION Caliber 40 Specifications
? WHAT ARE WE DOING FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS? The Plan
? PHOTO GALLERIES
More Pictures of Jerry and Arlene
Contact Information
The following e-mail addresses should have an ampersand (@) in them where we have written (at sign) There is NO SPACE either before or after the @. We have been getting a lot of junk mail generated by programs that scan WEB sites looking for @ symbols in the middle of addresses. We hope that our using the (at sign) convention will stop this problem.
Electronic mail address - jeraldl (at sign) comcast.net
The following E-Mail address will send messages to
us on Mirador via our HAM/SSB Radio. These messages must adhere to a very
specific format. The connection between the shore based station that is
connected to the Internet and our boat radio is VERY SLOW - 1200 baud when it
is going full speed. If you wish to send us messages on the HAM or SSB radio
link please keep them short and simple.
DO USE:
- only plain text (no HTML or any other HyperText - use your FORMAT/STYLE menu
item to specify plain text)
- one page or shorter (AIRMAIL will cutoff any messages longer than about 2000
characters)
DO NOT
-send images/graphics/pictures
-include any original message in a reply
HAM E-mail address: KI9NG (at sign) WINLINK.ORG (this address CAN NOT be used for
commercial or business correspondence)
We normally check for messages everyday on our HAM link when we are away from Tacoma on the boat.
DO NOT SEND ANY EMAIL TO OUR HAM ADDRESS UNLESS YOU ARE SURE WE ARE OFF CRUISING
WE DO NOT CHECK OUR HAM EMAIL WHEN WE ARE NOT CRUISING ON MIRADOR!!
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