November 22, 2025
It was a slight beat to Loreto with wind from the west but it wasn’t bad and a few hours later we dropped anchor next to a fellow Seawind 1160 Cayu who clearly were not having the best day ever. Their screecher was in shreds and they couldn’t get their main sail all the way down. We offered help but…
November 22, 2025
We headed back north to Juncalito. With the anchor set, Jack and Teresa rushed to beat the sunset for a snorkel. I began cleaning up for Jean’s arrival tomorrow and then jump into making dinner. On their return, they shared that it was again a hugely successful snorkel with cool caves and lots of fish. I was very happy that…
November 21, 2025
It was a motor back down to Agua Verde, the wind has just been non-existent lately – no complaints given it could be blowing 30 knots from the north. Anchor set, I had work to do so everyone else piled into the dinghy to snorkel the pinnacle. On their return I heard stories of giant eels and an octopus so…
November 18, 2025
Wind on our nose and no fish biting our lines was the theme for the trip to Candeleros Chico. On the way I pulled up the weather and was disappointed to see wind gust up to 25 knots overnight from the west. Figuring the anchorage would be a no go, we still pulled in to take a look and quickly…
November 17, 2025
Ah the easy life, we enjoyed daily margarita’s at the new restaurant on the beach. Which also gave us a chance to meet a few of the other cruisers in the bay plus a couple who just bought a fixer upper boat in La Paz but were land traveling at the moment. Throw in a snorkel on the pinnacle rock…
November 10, 2025
Another early day to beat the daily winds that funnel through Cerralvo Channel. A small trawler followed behind us out of the anchorage and an hour later blew on past. We tried our hand at sailing, which failed. After accepted our fate, it was a motorsail up to Balandra. Jack, had visited a few years ago and loved this spot.…
November 9, 2025
5:15pm the anchor was secure and we were on our way to Muertos – a sixty mile hop. To avoid the daily winds and associated waves we decided on a night passage and with the winds declining we had an easy passage with just a bit of wave action first few hours. At 1:30am we were off to bed with…
November 8, 2025
With a 4:30pm departure we left in calm conditions and other than large fishing boats returning and rolling us around it was a mellow ease into the passage. The chicken we picked up was devoured and shortly thereafter Vicki and Jack headed down to rest. I enjoyed the nice conditions (the reason we are doing a night passage is to…
November 6, 2025
First, I am not a fan of Cabo. Too loud. Too many jetskis. Too rolly. But it is a great place rest up, provision, get fuel, and wait for a weather window to enter the Sea of Cortez. We checked all of those boxes, starting with lunch followed by getting fuel. Fuel transferred into the main tanks, Jack and I…
November 4, 2025
Enroute to Mag bay, I had the 3am – 6am watch and for the first time struggled to keep my eyes open the last hour. So I stood in the doorway with the cooler breeze and listened to podcasts. Jack got up about 6:30am and after switching engines, I handed things over to him so I could grab another hour…
October 30, 2025
Up at 5:30am for a 6:00am departure to Bahia Asuncion. Smooth departure in the dark using our tracks from coming in, plus Jack and Vicki on the bow looking out for floats that we avoided yesterday. Reaching open water the wind allow the screecher to be unfurled and we moved along at a good clip while fighting a knot plus…
October 29, 2025
One last latte, the purchase of a 5-gallon jug of water (emergency supply), and the return of the marina key – and we were off! About 8:00am we untied the dock lines and made out way out past the huge Carnival cruise ship. Fairly quickly the clouds filled in, the winds were light so we motored around the south point…