LandfallVoyages

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 […]

We had a quick trip down to Cabo from Bahia Magdalena. Quite a shock leaving a tiny fishing village of about 150 people and then pulling in here. It’s like Disneyland but the main characters aren’t Mickey and Minnie, they’re beer and tequila! We’ll get caught up with some good posts soon, we haven’t had […]

After self-inflicted food poisioning caused a delay and a self inflicted minor concussion caused a second delay, we’re finally departing for Magdalena Bay. At that point we’ll be about 80% of the way down the Baja coast and only an overnighter away from Cabo. Excited and scared and well prepared.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

I guessed it would take 51 hours to Turtle Bay, it took 52 to travel the 308 miles. I lost 6 big fish, caught one 15# Dorado. The last big fish broke the tip of my pole, then broke the remaining eyelets off, broke the pole in the middle and finally broke the line. The […]

FINALLY we’re leaving Ensenada. Looks like 51 hours to Turtle bay and we’ll rest and wait out a big swell there for three days. Nest will be 48 hours to Magdalena bay, rest a day and then a day and a half to Cabo San Lucas. 2 days rest there and then 50 hours to […]

The internet here at Cruiseport has been mostly down, so we got a Telcel USB dongle. Of course that’s imperfect. The speed is great but we paid for 3 gigabytes and it says we need to recharge it already, even though their software says that we’ve only used 1.4 gigabytes. Fixing that will require a […]

We’re making our big push to get ready to sail south. Lots of work to be done, you saw part of the list a few days ago. Everything needs to be right, we’ll have 300 mile stretches with no place to pull into if things go wrong. We’ve wanted a watermaker all along but they’re […]