November 1, 2019
We woke to a mill pond, overnight it was perfectly smooth with no wind. What a change from the previous few days. The plan, if the seas had settled, had been to head for Refugio (a 50 nm passage). Looking out with the binoculars it still looked quite rough so rather than make a decision we broke down the emergency…
October 29, 2019
With Migel’s help pulling on dock lines we squeezed between a few boats on our zigzag course to the center of the alleyway. Then a one eighty spin got us pointed towards the mouth of the harbor. Everything was looking good as we slowly motored along watching the depth, as it can be tricky getting to open water. However, with…
May 28, 2019
The time had come, we had a window to cross to Puerto Penasco. Our plan was for a 3:00pm departure which left us with time to squeeze in yet another hike! This time with Radu and Katja from SV Imagine. They had recovered from their sleepless night two days ago and were up for some exploring. So off we went…
May 23, 2019
Finally a day where we can get moving again. Don Juan was a good protector but after four nights, water too cold to snorkel, and dreams of northern anchorages we were ready to move on. The plan had been to wait until 9:00am but the wind dropped off to less than 10 knots earlier than forecast so at 7:00am we…
May 19, 2019
In the morning there was a chill in the air and no one was anxious to get moving but by 7:30 there was movement aboard. After a weather check was completed we came to the realization that we would likely see wind the next five days. Duh. But today looked pretty mellow so we upped anchor and made our way…
May 12, 2019
The title of this post was a quote from Denny Green (former Minnesota Vikings coach) – the guy had a way with words. Some passages kick your ass. The leg to San Francisquito from Santa Rosalia was such a passage. I diligently checked the Predict Wind models and looked at Windty.com – all three said about the same thing, light…
May 9, 2019
Moving on, we upped anchor as the sun rose and made our way on a up to Santa Domingo. Mostly motoring with some patches of motor-sailing until the final five miles into Bahia Concepcion when the screecher got a workout. The wind piped up as we were making our wide turn into the bay had the wind peaked at around…
April 23, 2019
Wind be damned we planned to attempt a snorkel with the sea lions on Los Islotes. Moving north we had some wind push us along as we moved up the east side of Isla Partida and Espirutu. We would get strong gusts when passing the vallies then have it die to nothing once past with the strongest gust being 35…
April 16, 2019
A few days of mad dashing to prepare Strikhedonia and another day wandering around Mazatlan with Shalise. The final crew arrival day was spent provisioning leading to a pre-sunrise departure for the Baja. The forecast was for mostly mellow weather with 1.5 meter swells from the southwest every 12 seconds. Winds five to ten knots from the northwest until the…
March 16, 2019
The sail from Chacala up to Matanchen was pretty low key, leading to naps and relaxing with the except of a quick whale visit. But no complaints as it was an easy passage north. This was to be a quick stopover so after getting the anchor set we jumped in the dinghy to head for the crocodile tour and to…
March 7, 2019
This has been a strange winter, weatherwise. The Sea of Cortez has been hit with cold and constant wind all winter. Down in Barra we have been buffered for the most part but it has made finding a weather window to get around Cabo Corrientes (and into Banderas Bay) more challenging than normal. My friend Jeff was flying into Puerto…
February 21, 2019
By friend Bill some how managed to talk his wife into letting him play hookie from school (he is a high school physics teacher) and come down for a visit. It was going to be an action packed trip as I wanted to give him the full Barra area experience. What better way to start than to watch the sunset…