Peggy & Pat's Sailing Adventures
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
On April 15 Rob & Taya (Peggy’s brother and his wife) came for a visit. We had not seen them since Christmas and it was great to catch up with family. They flew into the international airport that is shared by Barra and Manzanillo, about 40 minutes from both. We met them at the airport and after getting them settled
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
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
Continue readingCuastecomate – small and surprisingly affluent!
In the morning we took a dinghy ride through a mangrove swamp. The ride was a couple miles long and at times was so narrow that we were grabbing branches on both sides to make sure they did not puncture the inflated pontoons on the sides of our dinghy. We saw a couple very small (18 inch) crocs but were
We were told there was great snorkeling in Tenacatita Bay in an area called “The Aquarium” and we were not disappointed. Yesterday and today we spent hours in that area and saw enormous numbers of fish and one of the largest expanses of healthy coral that I have ever seen. First, this is what it looked like directly under Calista: