Peggy & Pat's Sailing Adventures
The night of Sept28 was REALLY rolly in Bahia Salinas so at 5am we pulled anchor and left for Agua Verde, about 29 nm. We sailed and motor sailed until the wind died about 2 nm away. We were the only boat in the anchorage and we chose the south eastern area, a beautiful anchorage that is well protected from
Continue readingAgua Verde, Puerto Escondido and a land trip to San Javier Mission with Frank & Lisa
Early morning Sept25 we left Puerto Escondido and headed for Loreto, about 14 miles north, planning to anchor, dinghy in to town and pick up our friends Frank & Lisa (Peggy’s cousin and his wife) at the airport. About an hour out, we get a message that their flight had been cancelled! After much back-and-forth with the airlines, Lisa was
Continue readingFrank & Lisa come to visit! Loreto, Isla Coronados, Isla Carmen.
We flew from San Diego to Loreto yesterday and we are back on Calista in the Puerto Escondido Marina. It is still hot, but not quite as hot as it was when we left in mid August. The water in the marina is still over 90 degrees! Tomorrow we will take a short (less than 5 nm) day cruise with
We have been in San Diego for about 3 weeks, enjoying the cooler weather and catching up with friends. We did have a scare with hurricane Nora in late August. It developed as a tropical storm and upgraded to a Category 1 Hurricane (sustained winds at 75 mph or more) and forecasts had it running right up the Sea of
It was an easy 45nm trip from Santo Domingo to San Juanico. We arrived early afternoon and jumped right in for a good snorkel. It was hot so I slept on deck, watching the stars. The next morning we pulled anchor early and were out before 8am for the 35nm trip to Puerto Escondido. On the way we went through
We have decided it is just too hot here in the summer, so we are heading back to Puerto Escondido where we will put Calista in a slip and go back to San Diego for about a month. We really enjoyed Santa Rosalia and had hoped to go further north to Bahia Los Angeles, maybe see whale sharks, and even
July 31 we sailed 38nm up the coast from Santo Domingo to Santa Rosalia. On the way we had a problem with our mainsail. When furling, I think I had the boom up too high in back which made the sail roll up creep aft. We also had too much tension on the luff of the sail (still trying to
Continue readingSanta Rosalia – a French mining town in Baja?!
July 27 we sailed most of the way from Punta Pulpito to Santo Domingo (38nm) which is a wide cove at the entrance to Bahia Concepcion. We motored the final bit after the wind died. The bay does get some swell from the north but with winds mostly coming from the east and south, it had decent protection. The bay
We intended to go to Bahia Mangles but when we got there it did not look like a great anchorage for the weather we were expecting so we kept going to San Juanico, only 8 nautical miles further. We found a secluded cove that we had all to ourselves. That night we turned on the stern floodlights and hundreds of
Yesterday, July 23, we left Puerto Escondido in the morning (after a 90 minute wait at the fuel doc – they were doing the annual ‘pump calibration’) and motored to Loreto, 14 miles north. We anchored off the town in an area that has good holding (nice sand bottom for the anchor to dig in) but exposed to wind and
Continue readingPuerto Escondido to Loreto to Isla Coronados