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…
So, we successfully maneuvered our way from Texas and Arizona back to Mazatlan in late July, loaded down with a whole bunch of boat gear and related goodies. GB went straight to work installing our new Sailomat self-steering wind vane on the stern; and our new ICOM 802 SSB radio everywhere else throughout the boat. …
I deviate somewhat from my typical chronological posting pattern* to address the issue of how I eat when The Propane Chef is not on site. (At present he is crew on a 40-foot boat he and a professional delivery captain are taking back up Baja to the Los Angeles area. More on that, later.) The Propane Chef…
Sis took us for a bit of tourism to see the world’s largest and heaviest bronze equestrian statue, located at El Paso’s airport. The statue, entitled “The Equestrian” but actually depicting the Spanish explorer Juan de Oñate y Salazar, is breathtaking in both its size and its detail, but has been the subject of much…
The time in July we spent in Phoenix visiting my brother and sister in law was great. J&M have a very nice house – spacious guest rooms well separated from the action of the master suite; vertical walls; air conditioning; copious use of ceiling fans; two vehicles in the garage full o' gas - you get…
– or, tips for bringing equipment and parts from the US to your boat in Mexico. Tip #1: Individual results may vary. Tip #2: Plan well in advance. In our case, when we entered Mexico in October, 2007, and paid the modest fee for a bilingual employee of Hotel Coral Marina in Ensenada to help us with…
It’s been a couple decades now, hasn’t it? m
So last month we spent 3 weeks in Phoenix, Arizona and El Paso, Texas, for a long-overdue visit with the family and to do assorted bits of business plus procure lots and lots (and lots) of boat parts, supplies, and various other items we’d coveted for a while. If you believe you can sell all…
They’re all perfect. Your average univalve seashell, like Mexico’s Eastern Pacific fighting conches, augers, turbans, murex, spindles, moon shells and cones pictured here, forms a geometrically-proportioned, logarithmic spiral. Just like spiral galaxies, typhoons, and even cauliflowers are formed: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html m
There are lots of small sport fishing power boats zipping around the Sea of Cortez, taking what few fish remain in these waters. Mind you, some of our best boating friends are power boaters, but we prefer staying out of the way of the smaller, high speed sport craft. So we sort of cringed when…