Peggy & Pat's Sailing Adventures
After a couple days on anchor, we moved into the La Cruz marina. It is nice to be able to walk to shore, use on-shore showers, etc. And we are meeting many other boaters in the marina. Weather is great – lows in the mid 60s, highs in the high 70s with an afternoon breeze. Water temp is 74 to
We pulled anchor in beautiful Chacala just before 8am. There was little wind so we motored away, heading for Banderas Bay. On the way we saw dozens of humpback whales. All was going great until about 2pm when we were already in Banderas Bay, about 3 miles from our anchorage. Then we hit something hard. Peggy and I were both at
We were told that the Jungle Tour in San Blas was a “must do” activity. So we did. And they were right. We went with Kim & Jamie from Amazing Grace III and Eric & Kimberly from Gladiator. We found the tour location easily and started up river with Jose, our guide. His english is good and he had a
Leaving Isla Isabela we had very little wind in the morning so we started out motoring, but by mid-day we had 8 to 12 knots of following wind so we raised the asym spinnaker. The seas were very smooth and we had several hours of great downwind sailing. We saw at least a dozen humpback whales and a couple put
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After a beautiful overnight sail from Mazatlan, we dropped anchor at Isla Isabel just after sunrise Feb6. There was only one other boat in the anchorage at that time (our friends, Eric & Kimberly on Gladiator), which is good, because it is a small anchorage. After breakfast, we inflated our new kayaks and headed for the beach. Fishermen have working
Friday morning we will be leaving Mazatlan and heading to Isla Santa Isabela. It looks like about a 20 to 22 hour trip with some decent wind for sailing Friday afternoon and maybe into the evening. The wind will probably die down in the evening so we expect to motor most of the night. We should arrive at Isabela after
We flew back from San Diego to Mazatlan this morning. We were pleased with how easy it was to bring the kayaks in as checked baggage. We are currently in the El Cid Resort / Marina, which is really nice. Swimming pools, jacuzzis, restaurants and bars. It is also a good safe place to leave your boat. In a few
We are back in SD for Covid shots. Peggy got her second and I got my first (there are some advantages to hitting the 65 yr milestone!). We fly back to Mazatlan Feb1. We will be bringing two inflatable *kayaks in checked baggage. Lets hope that goes well.
We left Los Friales a bit after sunrise January 10. We had an easy overnight sail and arrived in Mazatlan the next morning. By 9:30 am we were anchored safely near Club Nautico and by 11am I was asleep after a long but very nice night-watch. By the time I woke up in mid-afternoon, Peggy had already washed down the
Today everything worked well. We started out with full sails and the winds came up so we reefed (made the main-sail smaller). It came up more so we did a second reef in the main-sail and reefed the jib. Then the winds calmed down and were behind us so we put up the asymetrical spinnaker. This was our first test