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AGUA VERDE 3/20 Anchor up at 11:00AM heading to Agua Verde 15 miles. Puerto Gato y Toro was beautiful! Very glad for the experience. No wind HOT 89º in the galley. 13:50 still no wind. Almost to the dangerous Marcial rocks. Got a fish on trolling but it snapped the line! (dad, the smaller rod […]

3/18 Slept like a rock. New boat on anchor this morning “strider”. Dozen dolphins feeding along the steep shoreline. Dead calm glass. 9:00 Claire pulled up the anchor again! 10:00 sailing towards Bahia el Gato (puerto gato) light SSE wind. Gliding at 4 kts! Calm out. Got up to 5 kts wing and wing for […]

3/14 Claire pulled the anchor up for her very first time at 7:20AM! Glass calm. Purple orange sunrise with reflections mirrored on the water. Light wind sail 21 miles to Isla San Francisco. 11:40AM 5 miles to go. Dropped sails calm. 14:15 Anchor up and leaving Isla San Francisco. We pulled in quick. Had a […]

Espiritu Santos 3/12 calm night. “Sara M” gone this morning. Alan pushed his 54’ vessel out of the bay with his dinghy! Solo sailors are a different breed. We are getting ready to leave for one of the islands, depends on how nice it is out there. Anchor up at 10:30AM. Not much wind. Motor […]

3/6   6:30AM had block ice delivered to the boat. Local fishermen that we met at the Palapa in Pichilingue offered to drop off 2 big blocks of ice on their way out in the morning. Probably 30lbs! We washed all the sand off the boat, pulled the anchor up at 15:00 and headed 4 miles to […]

La Paz and Playa Pichilingue Cove 2/21 We thought we’d stay productive so we hung protective nets on the galley shelf, top of the closet shelf, and on the port side of the v-berth. No netting wasn’t that big of a deal with all our down-wind sailing, until we started beating back up the Sea […]

LA PAZ pt.2 Well we are still in La Paz everyone! I wish i could say that we are still here because its the greatest place we’ve stop so far. We are waiting for packages. Claire’s father Rob was nice enough to send a family package to us in Cabo. We must have gotten lucky. […]

1/28 Heading to La Paz. We left Muertos at 3:30AM with SSW wind on our stern. Full moon. We had a great sail up the Cerralvo channel. Changed to west wind. Beam reach. We hit 6.5 and 7 kts. for a few hours. We got to the Lorenzo channel and it was gorgeous out. We had […]

Bahia de los Muertos 1/23 We left Cabo Frailes at 4am. I woke up every hour before we left, calm wind, bright moon, clear sky. As soon as we leave, clouds and pitch pitch black. We motored out into the darkness with only 2 stern lights of other boats to follow way off in the […]

Cabo Frailes Well my logbook starts back up at 1/16 so its missing 6 days without writing after we pulled into the bay. Our first day would have been 1/11 and the wind was still blustery from our exciting sail up. And from each day on it just got stronger and stronger. There were 9 […]