March 2, 2020
Back aboard I wasted no time getting Strikhedonia ready for the passage to Banderas bay. I had Jean and our friends coming in about a week and finding a good weather window meant getting to Perula as quickly as possible. After checking out of the marina, getting a good night’s sleep, at the crack of dawn it was time to…
February 22, 2020
My business partner had a vacation scheduled and needed me to head back to Minnesota while he was gone. So a few days before, I returned to the Barra lagoon and the day before I moved to the marina. I was lucky enough to find another cruiser heading home the a week so we could share a driver both to…
February 19, 2020
Last year some friends (Mike (SV Shanti) and Damon (SV Gia)) worked for days in hot, humid conditions with biting and stinging insects to clear a trail from “dog” beach in the Tenacatita anchorage over to a private beach on the opposite side of the peninsula. My schedule didn’t allow me check out their work last season so it was…
February 18, 2020
A reset was needed from the non-stop party atmosphere in Barra and with Tenacatita just a short hop away I peeled out for a few days. Every day I’d get in a beach walk all the way past the resort. And every time there seemed to be something that made me chuckle or shake my head. In addition, I took…
February 16, 2020
Damn the living is easy in Barra. Rather than babble on, I’ll just let the pictures tell the tale of our time in Barra. Sadly, Jean flew home on the 15th leaving me to single-hand back up to Vallarta.
February 8, 2020
Back in Perula, Ralph and Helen had talked to a couple on a monohull named Cadenza, the owners Jay and Terri had been over for dinner and mentioned they had some friends who were looking at buying a catamaran. They had been impressed with the layout on Moon Drifter, and knowing that we planned to sell Strikhedonia Ralph mentioned that…
February 6, 2020
With supplies getting low on Sky Pond and plan was hatched to join them on a trip to La Manzanilla for provision. In the morning there was a pretty good surge, so the revised plan was to take Strikhedonia over in the morning and use the kayaks to get to shore rather than risk flipping a dinghy. We made the…
February 5, 2020
Sadly, it was time to move south and say goodbye to Moon Drifter. Another easy passage brought us into a crowded anchorage but a warm welcome from our friends Carl and Roxy in their 1160 Sky Pond. We quickly fell into the rhythm of life in Tenacatita; beach walks, bocce ball, drinks at the palapa. Oh and a new thing,…
February 1, 2020
Back aboard Strikhedonia and it was a rush to get provisioned and off the dock. Thankfully with all the work done before heading home for Christmas it was quick and easy. As is our usual we headed out to Punta de Mita in the afternoon and then woke up at 11:00pm to start the trip down to Pérula. It was…
December 31, 2019
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December 21, 2019
After motoring to Paradise Village from Yelapa, we pulled into a nice slip with plenty of boat projects to get done as well as visiting with our friends who live in Vallarta. Of course trips to the pool and eating out every night soften the affects of daily boat work. Sadly, or maybe not given the work, it was quickly…
December 15, 2019
September 29th two waves of storms from TS Narda brought flash flooding to the cute town of Yelapa. The devastation was incredible but even more incredible is the resilience of this town. We visited just two months later and the town had been cleaned up to the point that you wouldn’t realize anything happened here. The waterfall in town push…