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Down Tortuga Way

8 January 2013

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Down Tortuga Way

Coming down the coast of Baja, our internet connection was mostly cruddy, which pretty much ruled out blog updates. Even with the Telcel dongle, we found ourselves generally without a reliable connection. In Turtle Bay, it took days and days to pay for our fuel, because the town’s cell signal was kaput and the fuel […]

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On Leaving Ensenada

7 December 2012

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On Leaving Ensenada

A good steady wind combs the grey cotton wool clouds into a smooth wispy mass that knits itself together pretty well, only showing thin in a few spots, with stars shining through. It’s coming on 9 at night and the fat November moon keeps climbing higher in the sky, dragging her mantle of stars and […]

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Chester The Molester

4 December 2012

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While we were hanging out in Ensenada, we became friendly with a neighbor who, honestly—gave off kind of weird vibes from the moment we met him. A couple of other families with kids also got a strange feeling about him and independent of each other, we all came to the conclusion that he was likely […]

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We Are Not Alone…

3 December 2012

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We arrived in Turtle Bay a few days ago. Much to our surprise there was a strong Morro Bay contingent already present. Jim McWilliams and Ellie on Timoneer, Manny and Lola on Desire (?) and the old Virg’s Fishing boat Shirlee Too were all here at anchor! Seriously, out of about a dozen boats, a […]

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Wandering Through CEARTE, Ensenada’s Center for the Arts

26 October 2012

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Wandering Through CEARTE, Ensenada’s Center for the Arts

It’s easy, when picking your way down the coast toward Mexico, to live life, if not in vacation mode, then at least with a sense of urgency. You are somewhere for only a short while, and it seems only right and natural to make the most of every port you pass through. You look for […]

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Post-Frontal Ensenada Sunset

24 October 2012

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Post-Frontal Ensenada Sunset

I don’t know when it happened. Some time in the last couple of months I’ve become…sunset jaded. I didn’t even realize it had happened until Steve yelled down for us to come and check out the sunset and a little part of my mind went, “Nah…I’d rather continue hunting down this stupid rss feed problem, […]

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Return of Shark the Dog Hunter

23 October 2012

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Return of Shark the Dog Hunter

A couple of days after the bulk of his crew jumped ship, Captain Dog managed to hire on some new deckhands. I’m wondering how he finds these people, because most of this new crew look just as green as the last. Some kind of temp service that specializes in matching workers to jobs that they […]

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Wherein a Captain Tries to Strangle One of His Crew

22 October 2012

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Wherein a Captain Tries to Strangle One of His Crew

He kind of deserved it. There are a couple of shark-diving boats that operate out of Cruiseport Village marina, here in Ensenada. For three months of the year, they are paid extraordinarily good money to haul insane vacationers out to popular shark haunts where they can frolic in the water amongst cute and cuddly maneaters. […]

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How Do You Know When You’re Ready to Go Cruising?

21 October 2012

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I had a lot of keys. House, deadbolt, garage, camper, racecar, shop door, shop deadbolt, shop other door, shop other deadbolt, shop 3rd door, suitcases, shop storage, shop bathroom, big tool box, side tool box, roll around tool box, race tool box, truck, Subaru, Porsche, Porsche, Porsche, wheel locks, boatyard bathroom, boatyard shower, and the […]

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The Mexican Navy Happened Today

19 October 2012

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While Hurricane Paul peters out along the coast of Baja, doing nothing much except pouting big grey clouds across the sky, folks in the marina are bustling about–some of us are heading south in a few weeks, others are hunkering down for what passes as winter in Ensenada, and a few just plain bustle all […]

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