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A month in La Cruz – boat jobs, the sailing community and a new jib sail

After a couple lazy days in Paradise Village we moved a few miles to the La Cruz anchorage. We ordered a new jib sail from Ullman Sails, our sailmaker in San Diego and that means it would be 3+ weeks before we could get moving again. But I had plenty of boat jobs and Peggy could take a trip home

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Heading north to get out of the ‘hurricane zone’

Hurricane season is June 15 – October 31 in Pacific Mexico. But hurricanes rarely get very far north into the Sea of Cortez, so that’s where we plan to spend the next several months. After dropping Rob and Taya off in Manzanillo, the next day we motored to Barra and went into the same slip in the marina that we

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Carizal to Manzanillo

The next day we pulled anchor and motored the short hop to Manzanillo. We turned the helm over to Captain Taya who guided us safely into a nice anchorage off Las Hadas which is on a small peninsula that divides the bay. Google maps calls the small peninsula ‘Condominios La Punta’ and it is full of huge vacation homes.  We

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Touring Manzanillo

We hired Hernando, a taxi driver for the day to show us the area. Manzanillo is a large commercial port with a population of 160,000. It has a big sport fishing industry and has been called the ‘Sailfish Capital of the World’. Hernando took us to an ‘iguana park’ which has many iguanas along with racoons and badgers. There is

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Barra de Navidad

We motored the 5 miles from Cuestacomate to Barra de Navidad and pulled into a slip at the Grand Isla Navidad Resort. Being the ‘task oriented’ people we are, we got right to work. First was supervising a crew in a thorough cleaning of the boat. It had been a few weeks since a good wash-down and with guests arriving

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Cuastecomate – small and surprisingly affluent!

It was an easy downwind sail (wind 8 – 10 knots, at 150 degrees apparent) from Tenacatita to Cuastecomate. From the boat, the town looked nice and very compact. We took the dinghy in and found a VERY nice little town. The beach is lined with nice restaurants, some family oriented, some more for adults, but all a little more

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