Underway 13: Punta Pulpito to Bahia Concepcion/Baja mainland – 3/7 Motored through brief patchy fog and light & variable winds for 33 mi., E 5-10kt. Dropping to S less than 5kt., increasing in p.m. N 15-20kt. with 4’ N chop as we rounded Punta Concepcion. Anchored in 23.7’ off Playa Santispac in Bahia Concepcion at…
Underway 10: Puerto Ballandra/Isla Carmen to Punta Mangles/Baja mainland – 2/27 Engine gave no trouble on start; motored in 5-8kt light air out of Puerto Ballandra at 1015, N 20mi. past Isla Coronados to the new-to-us anchorage of Punta Mangles. Odd N swell of 1'-2' at 3 seconds was accompanied by no wind. However, by noon,…
Again with the recap. Underway 7: Puerto Escondido to Punta Colorada, SE Isla Carmen – 2/22 Couldn’t pass up a good weather forecast so left Pto. Escondido a day early for a short 15-mi. motor in light air to the SE side of Isla Carmen. Plan: explore a couple anchorages we’d not seen before. 2…
Here we go again with a recap of the posts that never posted while underway. Now, with better editing! More commentary! And pictures! Underway 4: Cazadero to Timbabichi on Baja Peninsula – 2/1 Motored 4.5 hrs. in light & variable N wind for 23 mi. Arrived 1300. Received a mayday at 1530 & by 1600 were…
Our clever plan for posting via satellite while underway, hasn't quite worked out yet. We posted, but sadly no text made it through to this here blog. We are college graduates so the problem will get resolved. Eventually. Meanwhile, here's what we've been trying to post for the past 2 months. Let us stumble back…
You sometimes find really funny things when you get off your boat and explore the shore. Because occasionally, cruisers pull together "found items," transforming them into art. Like this artifact, found amongst the ruins of the salt works at Punta Salinas on Isla San Jose in the Sea of Cortez: Schnort. m
The Mexican FM-III visa is a type of resident (long-term) visa that is one step up the food chain from the basic 180-day tourist visa everyone gets when crossing the border for the first time. Many boaters cruise Mexico for years on a succession of tourist visas, and it works fine for them. Other boaters…
So, rumor has it, if we can cruise 24/7 for more than one full year, we'll be among those people who end up cruising for a really long time. I don't know about that…there's a lot to be said for a land-based existence…but we started short-time cruising in the PacNW and BC in 1998; then…
Weather permitting, by the time you read this we'll have slipped the mooring lines after 5 weeks at Marina Costa Baja in La Paz, to head north to the islands in the Sea of Cortez. If all goes according to plan (yeah, right), we'll be out there for at least 4 weeks before our next port-with-Internet…
As some dear readers may recall, our cruising expenses for November 2008 looked pretty sweet, thanks to having anchored out the whole month. For some contrast, here's what the following month looked like when we spent the first half of December 2008 anchored out in the islands of the lower Sea of Cortez, then put in…