Archive | November, 2012

11/18 – 11/24 hey everybody. we’re safe. we’re making new sailing friends everyday. we’ve been through hell and back as well. we left ensenada sunday 11/18 at 4am. we followed chewys info on our charts. the swell started picking up so we pulled the dinghy we were towing on board. then the wind picked up […]

11/13-17Started off with good intentions… Left Shelter Island at the break of dawn and had a wake up call from an aircraft carrier. “blue hull sailboat what are your intentions?” “heading south to Ensenada” “keep 500 yards away from our vessel or the coast guard will shoot you.” “roger that. over and out.” Finally got […]

11/10-12 We left Glorietta anchorage after a few days of bad winds and rain and headed over to the anchorage at shelter island. We finalized our international insurance and provisioned up. the last of the foul weather has passed and we plan on leaving here before sunrise, headed for Ensenada Mexico to clear the boat […]

Sorry no wifi so no photos. 11/7 -10 we woke up in a guest slip on shelter island. Met a few other cruisers that are waiting to cross the border. All that fog we came in on turned into nasty wind with spurts of rain. We moved over to glorietta bay right behind the famous […]

hey everyone we just finished setting up our SPOT CONNECT (

11/5and6we left oceanside with hotel del coranado on our minds. we plotted our course and departed oceanside at 7:30AM. motor sailed for a couple hours with no wind. dad caught a seagull while trolling. wind picked up real nice and we turned the motor off. 4 grey? whales were feeding right off the side of […]

11/3and4 we finally have wifi. we’re going to try and keep the updates separated from one port to the next. this is our departure from our home port of dana point harbor and arriving in oceanside harbor where my dad’s childhood friend mike bardin and his family reside. we stopped in for a day. these […]

the usual we explained to Piña that we are leaving and she decided she loves cruising guides new genuine owl light from bebi electronics in fiji. LED 2+ nautical miles masthead light. extremely bad-ass. took dad on the dinghy to fish at the sand bar add professional rigger to the resume. new stainless steel head […]