Peggy & Pat's Sailing Adventures
Just before leaving La Paz, our friends Doug & Anna on Karuna, told us about Mezteno, one of their favorite places. It is 22 miles from La Paz, on the northwestern part of Isla Espiritu Santu, just south of Caleta Partida. We left La Paz about noon to catch the outflowing tide and hoping for more wind in the afternoon.
Continue readingA New Favorite Place – Thankyou Doug & Anna!
We finally got our insurance updated and we are heading north tomorrow. Here is what happened:We have insurance that is good in the US from Point Conception (So Cal, US) to the Mexican border, and the “Pacific waters of Mexico,” down to Acupulco. But during ‘Hurricane Season’ (June 15 to October 15) we need to be north of 27 degrees
We left Los Muertos about 8am after a rolly night. No wind at all for the first few hours so we motored up the San Lorenzo Channel in very calm seas. Turning west to go through the channel between Isla Espiritu Santo and the La Paz peninsula, there was enough wind to motor sail with the jib adding a knot
We left the El Cid marina about 7am Sunday and headed west, across the Sea of Cortez. We motored with little wind until mid day when we had enough to put up the jib but still needed the motor. By mid afternoon we put up the main and there was enough wind that we put in one reef and killed
Continue readingCrossing the Sea Of Cortez – Mazatlan to Los Muertos
Getting out of La Cruz was a bit more difficult than we anticipated. When we pulled the anchor, we found that the chain and bridle were encrusted with barnacles and covered with a mossy sea weed. Luckily, about a month ago, we bought a power washer from Home Depot here in Mazatlan. That removed the mossy stuff and some of
Continue readingEnjoying the El Cid Resort Marina in Mazatlan
Tomorrow we leave La Cruz and beautiful Banderas Bay, heading north. Hurricane season is fast approaching and we need to be at 26 degrees north latitude before June 15 per our insurance. We will do an overnight, about 28 hours and 170 nautical miles, to Mazatlan. There we will rest a day and then cross the sea of Cortez, about
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
Continue readingA month in La Cruz – boat jobs, the sailing community and a new jib sail
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
Continue readingHeading north to get out of the ‘hurricane zone’
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
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