Every cruising port has an informal cruisers’ net on some VHF frequency or another where general cruising and port information is exchanged. La Paz boasts a second cruisers’ net – this one, on VHF 21 about a half hour before the more standard cruisers’ net starts on VHF 22 at 0800 Monday thru Saturday. Both…
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. …
OK; it’s either "sappy," or "cheesy," or possibly "trite," "corny," or "unimaginative." But here’s another post where I describe sights we’ve seen that are so tacky with the telling, you’d think you were reading a cruising magazine or something. This is the kind of stuff boating fantasies are made of. We begin with a classic…
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…
As I was saying previously…The Fox is so new and well-built that very little has yet gone kerflooey. The 6-item list below comprises stuff that is not especially essential to sailing but makes life aboard more comfy — if all works according to spec. However, here’s the preliminary disclaimer, again, to forestall any unpleasantness because…
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…
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. …
In 2006, during our last rainy Seattle winter, I often read about San Blas in Latitude 38. Several articles discussed, in both a positive and negative way, the activities of some fellow down there assisting cruisers. At that time, San Blas might as well been on the back side of the moon, for all I…
Yep. It was inevitable. The booby post. This is where we experiment to see how much our blog traffic increases with all those adolescent saps Googling for pr0n in mom’s basement, when we mention the word "boobies." Here we go. Isla Isabela has a fairly large population of at least two species of booby –…