John Foster has posted the Latitude 38 updates in the horrific 338 Boat Embargo in Mexico to the Guadaloupe Race theft.

GEORGIA is in La Paz, BCS, sailing in the Sea of Cortez now. We're planning to head to the Mainland next month for warmer weather.

We are worried enough about the situation that, at Tiger Beetle's suggestion, we burned the number 2 into Georgia's stern. (As a home-built boat of which there are are only 2 known and no tags already affixed, this seemed the best resolution.)

Production yachts generally carry the HIN imprint.

I wondered what the heck? when the great staff at Baja Naval insisted that we have our new Volvo engine serial number and the hull number on our documentation papers with us when we checked into Mexico.

In retrospect, I'm darn lucky they were so persnickety about all this. After all, left to my own devices, I changed Georgia's Hailing Port from Alameda to San Francisco just a few years ago. Innocently, of course.

It seems that La Paz had yet to be visited by AGACE.

Lucie Mewes