GOOD TIMES ON MAJESTIC DALAT IN PARIS
The Grand Poobah of the Baja Ha-Ha is having a great time onboard in Paris writing up the bios and sorting out the Meet the Fleet photos for the November 1 Baja Ha-Ha.
You know, the 750-mile cruisers' rally from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas with R&R stops at Turtle Bay and Bahia Santa Maria. So far there are 163 paid entries.
Based on the bios, there's going to be some really great and interesting folks this year. Kids, too. Lots of kids.
 The Poobah's favorite bio photo to date comes from Kevin and Katie on the Kauai-based custom homebuilt 50-ft cat Kalewa. If you don't believe cats can sail upwind quickly in light air, you haven't seen Kalewa.
If memory serves the Poobah, Kevin will be doing his fourth Ha-Ha with Kalewa, while Katie will be doing her second. What the Poobah knows for sure is the two are currently cruising in Alaska.
A few years ago Ha-Ha participants Charlie and Cathy Simon of Celebration, who were circumnavigators and Northwest Passage vets, brought the Poobah some glacier ice for his Ha-Ha sundowners. It was delicious, so K&K, can you do the same?
 The Grand Poobah, Assistant Poobah Patsy 'La Reina del Mar' Verhoeven, and Dona de Mallorca, are all jacked about the upcoming Ha-Ha. Patsy is already in San Diego with her Gulfstar 50 Talion, a vet of at least a dozen Ha-Ha's.
The Poobah and de Mallorca will be leaving La Cruz in early September aboard the Ha-Ha mothership Profligate for the Bash to San Diego to get ready for the November 1 Ha-Ha start. We hope to see you there!
(Editor's note: The accompanying photo is of K&K is onboard Kalewa, but in Hawaii, not Alaska.)
Wait, here's another photo I like. It's a photo of Liz and Steven Davis of Aloha at the end of Steve's retirement flight from the airlines. It's the first photo we've gotten from the cockpit of a commercial jet.
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