This is a two-parter as this wasn’t quite the causal jaunt across the Gulf of California that I had planned. The following two maps show the route – note that the wind comes from the NW generally, so it would… Continue reading
So I’m a little behind which is why you are getting two posts in two days – I am sending this just before I set off to cross the gulf again (going the other way this time) with Liz (Goodbye… Continue reading
Adjusting from BC in the autumn weather (cool, rainy, cloudy) to end of summer mainland Mexico (sunny, humid, 30c+) was kind of a shock. My first day I was too hot and sweaty to really do anything, except sit around… Continue reading
As anyone who has been reading for a while knows, the boat came with a pretty crappy pre-fab dodger that I installed soon after I found it in a locker, and then removed just before Swiftsure 2017 in an ill-conceived… Continue reading
So after I made the decision to head back to Canada for the summer, I had to figure out where to put the boat. I ended up deciding on Mazatlan, the place just North of Banderas Bay where I met… Continue reading
Last week, I woke up to find my dinghy had vanished in the middle of the night, leaving behind a neatly cut line. Listening on the radio it seems like the big catamaran next to me had woken up in… Continue reading
I’m still in Banderas Bay, reading a lot, getting probably too much sun and swimming a bunch, but what’s next? Well originally, I would have been heading off to French Polynesia around about now. This…. *drumroll* isn’t going to happen… Continue reading
After leaving Chacala Bay, it was a 40nm sail down to La Cruz, in Banderas Bay. We picked up my friend Mal and spent the next while hanging around the bay, sailing to Punta Mita (an anchorage 10 miles away… Continue reading