Guaymas. A mere 20 miles, more or less, southeast from San Carlos. Hot, in May. Before arriving there about a month ago we had gunkholed about 10 miles north of San Carlos at Playa Chollado (nice snorkeling when the seas are calm)(which, after 24 hours, they weren't); moved a half mile north to Bandito Cove (great…
At least, that’s what their little mining cart says, over there on the right: Santa Rosalia sits on the east coast of the Baja California peninsula, about halfway up (or down, depending on your direction of travel) the Sea of Cortez. It was a small town made bigger in the late 19th/early 20th century by…
With apologies to E.G. Brady, it’s not just Mazatlan; all of Mexico is loud. Brady wrote that since the invention of the amplifier, every local farmacy, taxi, wedding and 15th-birthday party blasts music into the street at a volume high enough to make your eardrums bleed. The public events in Santa Rosalia in late April…
Loreto is a good place for cruisers to do provisioning and get what repairs they may. There are any number of hardware stores and small groceries there, as well as a good pet food store, a couple of car rental outfits, gas stations and a propane supplier a bit out of town toward the airport.…
So. There we were in 57 feet of water in Bahia Agua Verde, with a busted anchor windlass. GB believed after some serious testing* that the problem lay in the electric windlass motor. Which, fortunately, was heavy but portable when next we were at a port with some repair opportunities. GB manfully raised the 66-lb.…
Puerto Escondido sits on the eastern lower third of the Baja peninsula, about 22 kilometers south of Loreto and about 175 miles north of La Paz, at 25 deg.48.4’N and 111 deg.18.1’ W. The port is a beautiful oval indentation in the coast, surrounded by high mountain peaks and lots of natural beauty, completely protected…
So when we arrived in La Paz on March 5 we arranged to stay at Marina Costa Baja, located a few miles to the north of La Paz proper. The livin’ here is pretty sweet – for the price of 2006 moorage in Shilshole Marina in Seattle, you get free (and excellent) Internet service, free…
In February, we chose to travel no further south than Banderas Bay and the greater Puerto Vallarta area – mainly because we’d intended to return north to explore the Sea of Cortez as spring began and we didn’t want to have to tax our poor selves overmuch beating back to weather for hundreds of miles. …
Moving 21 miles south from Bahia de Matanchen we stopped briefly at the rolly anchorage of Chacala. This one definitely requires bow and stern anchors to reduce the boat’s motion by keeping the boat bow-to the incoming swell. When we anchored there, there did not appear to be significant current – we and other folks…
Our voyage from Mazatlan took us from Isla Isabela, 90 miles south, and then turned southeast following the curvature of mainland Mexico. The weather was generally calm and even traveling downwind we were only able to sail about 2-1/2 hours before the wind dropped below 7 knots and the Fox’s sails could not stay filled. …