Watercraft Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/watercraft Tue, 06 Nov 2018 18:16:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Queenstown Skyline Gondola and Luge http://toursmaps.com/queenstown-skyline-gondola-and-luge.html http://toursmaps.com/queenstown-skyline-gondola-and-luge.html#respond Sun, 18 Nov 2018 06:54:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=266491 The Skyline Gondola not only takes you up to one of the most beautiful views in New Zealand, but there are also a variety of activities waiting for you at the top. This is the steepest gondola in the Southern Hemisphere. Oh my gosh, you can see the paragliders and look at the whole lake, wow. We are very high up and I am getting a little bit warm. If you were coming to Queenstown, you have to do the gondola. That was awesome! Oh my gosh! Look you can see all of Queenstown, so epic. From up here you

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/queenstown-skyline-gondola-and-luge.html/feed 0 5 Best Places to Visit in Mexico http://toursmaps.com/5-best-places-to-visit-in-mexico.html http://toursmaps.com/5-best-places-to-visit-in-mexico.html#respond Wed, 14 Nov 2018 19:57:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=264582 Sea Wings Swell’s genoa luffs noisily, struggling to catch the light following breeze. “Today is the day, Snaggs,” I say to Shannon. “It’s time to attempt to set the spinnaker pole.” Between swells and new crew, we continued to hop south through the polluted ports and charming bays of mainland Mexico. We’re halfway down the coast of Mainland Mexico now, sailing toward the famous surf break at Zicatela, Puerto Escondido. “You mean that big pole on the side of the mast?” “Yep,” I nod. Marty the rigger had talked me through the process before I left, but I hadn’t found

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/5-best-places-to-visit-in-mexico.html/feed 0 Our Sailing Destinations http://toursmaps.com/our-sailing-destinations.html http://toursmaps.com/our-sailing-destinations.html#respond Fri, 09 Nov 2018 19:12:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=265019 Thankfully, Taputu, who helped me guide Swell into the haul-out cradle, has taken to me in a fatherly way. In my deepest moments of frustration I go to him. Mostly using sign language, he figures out how to help. Some mornings he even tosses a chocolate croissant up into my cockpit. As the midday heat burns, the noise stops for one short hour while the workers gather to eat in the shade of a dry-docked boat. Taputu insists I join them daily. I sit with my French-English dictionary, noteblog and pen, picking words out of their conversations and vegetables out

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