To Mike & Liz Scott on their Cal40 Argonaut; to Tom & Dawn Baker on their Farr 44 Warm Rain, and to all those other adventurers who made the Puddle Jump from Mexico across the Pacific to the Marquesas and points beyond — congratulations on having made a safe landfall. Enjoy the South Pacific, y’all!…
GB fishes. From the mother ship, The Fox. From the dinghy, Grey Fox. Underway. At anchor. Even when all I want to do is get from The Fox to the nearest stinkin’ beach for a short walk, he’s all about, "Do you mind if I dip a hook?" "…" [clenched teeth] "Why, no, my sweet,…
The anchorages in the Sea of Cortez vary greatly from one another. Some have excellent reefs for fishing and snorkeling, others have terrific seashell beaches, and you never seem to see the same rock formations twice. We’ve seen precious few onshore crittes – turkey vultures, osprey, insects and small lizards, mostly – but we never…
I’ve recently mentioned snorkeling in Baja. This is not as easy for me as it might be for other folks. See, when I was very young and first learning to swim in a tiny neighborhood pool, older kids would play this game where 3 of them would pile on top of a younger kid and…
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…
If you’ve done a lot of sailing in the Pacific Northwest like we have, you will discover upon leaving La Paz and traveling the Sea of Cortez, that the anchorages feel similar to those in the San Juan/Gulf Islands and the Strait of Georgia up to Desolation Sound. In other words, if you’ve traveled up…
For someone who does not sew, I sure sew a lot. I am the freakin’ Queen o’ Sunbrella. So, in contrast to practically every other long-distance cruiser, GB opposed having Jerry cans with a bit of extra diesel fuel on board the Fox, because it offended his sensibilities of having a relatively clear deck unmarred…
OH HAI I IS ON UR MAST CHANGIN UR ANCHOR LITE kthxbye