November 18, 2025
Wind on our nose and no fish biting our lines was the theme for the trip to Candeleros Chico. On the way I pulled up the weather and was disappointed to see wind gust up to 25 knots overnight from the west. Figuring the anchorage would be a no go, we still pulled in to take a look and quickly…
November 17, 2025
Ah the easy life, we enjoyed daily margarita’s at the new restaurant on the beach. Which also gave us a chance to meet a few of the other cruisers in the bay plus a couple who just bought a fixer upper boat in La Paz but were land traveling at the moment. Throw in a snorkel on the pinnacle rock…
November 14, 2025
We pulled into the anchorage to find a group of campers on the beach where I like to anchor. No worries we moved down the beach a bit to give them some space. It wasn’t long before we jumped in the dinghy to snorkel around the southern point where I had spearfished with Victor a few years ago. The spot…
November 12, 2025
We were on our way to Isla San Francisco and as seems to always be the case, light winds on the nose meant we would be motoring. The anchor dropped a few hours later in amongst a crowd of charter boats and a few large power boats. This is such a beautiful spot, it is no surprise that it was…
November 10, 2025
Another early day to beat the daily winds that funnel through Cerralvo Channel. A small trawler followed behind us out of the anchorage and an hour later blew on past. We tried our hand at sailing, which failed. After accepted our fate, it was a motorsail up to Balandra. Jack, had visited a few years ago and loved this spot.…
November 9, 2025
5:15pm the anchor was secure and we were on our way to Muertos – a sixty mile hop. To avoid the daily winds and associated waves we decided on a night passage and with the winds declining we had an easy passage with just a bit of wave action first few hours. At 1:30am we were off to bed with…
November 8, 2025
With a 4:30pm departure we left in calm conditions and other than large fishing boats returning and rolling us around it was a mellow ease into the passage. The chicken we picked up was devoured and shortly thereafter Vicki and Jack headed down to rest. I enjoyed the nice conditions (the reason we are doing a night passage is to…
November 6, 2025
First, I am not a fan of Cabo. Too loud. Too many jetskis. Too rolly. But it is a great place rest up, provision, get fuel, and wait for a weather window to enter the Sea of Cortez. We checked all of those boxes, starting with lunch followed by getting fuel. Fuel transferred into the main tanks, Jack and I…
November 4, 2025
Enroute to Mag bay, I had the 3am – 6am watch and for the first time struggled to keep my eyes open the last hour. So I stood in the doorway with the cooler breeze and listened to podcasts. Jack got up about 6:30am and after switching engines, I handed things over to him so I could grab another hour…
October 30, 2025
Up at 5:30am for a 6:00am departure to Bahia Asuncion. Smooth departure in the dark using our tracks from coming in, plus Jack and Vicki on the bow looking out for floats that we avoided yesterday. Reaching open water the wind allow the screecher to be unfurled and we moved along at a good clip while fighting a knot plus…
October 29, 2025
One last latte, the purchase of a 5-gallon jug of water (emergency supply), and the return of the marina key – and we were off! About 8:00am we untied the dock lines and made out way out past the huge Carnival cruise ship. Fairly quickly the clouds filled in, the winds were light so we motored around the south point…
October 27, 2025
Our time in Ensenada was hectic to say the least! Following a somewhat lazy morning, we jumped in an Uber around 10am for Home Depot. First stop was to buy a Starlink Mini. That acquired, it was on to lunch while Vicki hit the Walmart next door for a fleece top and flip flip – I failed to mention it…