GB & I left Mazatlan on the morning of November 2, 2008, crossed the southern Sea of Cortez to the Baja peninsula, and spent six glorious weeks at anchor. We arrived at Marina Costa Baja in La Paz on December 15. The next few posts catch up to our doings during the breakneck pace we…
So, today is Day 11 of the sailboat delivery that GB and Cap'n George are making. I last heard from them 3 days ago and all was well (Cap'n George has a cell phone so when the boat is in range of a cell tower we can reach one another via our laptop and Skype…
It’s about 450 miles on a southeasterly track along the Mexican mainland from Guaymas to Mazatlan. We’d planned to stop at Topolobampo for 5 days after traveling the first 230 miles, to check out at least three anchorages there, plus explore Topo’s Ohuira Bay where it was rumored friendly dolphins roamed amongst coves and islets. …
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. …
Some time ago I posted a stream-of-consciousness list of some of the things that have worked well for us on the Fox after a full year of cruising. Now’s time to discuss what has not worked. Fortunately, there has not been much that has broken or not worked according to expectations. I feel that’s partly…
We left Cabo San Lucas on November 16, shortly after the power boat wakes made staying anchored impossible. Destination: Cabo de los Frailes, about 45 miles distant – we alternately sailed and motored up around the toe of the Baja Peninsula and into the southern Sea of Cortez, traveling north again for the first time…
November 14, 2007. As dawn grew into morning, we passed the usual boat-rally stop of Bahia de Magdalena. By now we wanted to put some distance under the keel so we headed directly for Cabo San Lucas, the southernmost point of Baja California, in the Tropic of Cancer and some 315 miles from Punta Pequena.…
Instead of jumping out of Turtle Bay (on the Pacific side of Baja about halfway down that 750-mile-long peninsula) and spending a two night offshore trip to get to Bahia Santa Maria a couple hundred miles further south via a more direct route; and because the reinforced northwesterlies continued to build, we explored the coast…
We rounded Cape Scott on Vancouver Island BC on July 6, 2007. About 40 miles later, in the first fjord at anchor, some cruiser asked me if I was going on the Baja HaHa. So it proceeded down the coast – about the fourth time this happened I realized that the HaHa was an event…
We give thanks for getting the hell here…….. Rounding Cape Mendocino After the UPS medication delivery fiasco we were stuck in Eureka. The weather deteriorated significantly, with high seas warnings to 30 feet and wind in in the 30 knot range. We watched the weather each day looking for a break – on Wednesday we…