By Lowell | April 10, 2004 | Category Early Days
Gato Loco – The Bahia De Los Angeles Cruise Gato Loco on the way to Bahia Los Angeles April 4-10, 2004 It’s been a tough cruise J Bill was up ‘til 2:00 am and then turned over the sails to Carlton who sailed to sunrise. The communications officer got to sleep all night since she […]
Read MoreBy Lowell | January 17, 2004 | Category Early Days
4 miles off Sandy Beach resorts and Puerto Penasco – January 17th 2004 A pod of finback whales have been feeding off Penasco over the past week. When we arrived in Cholla for the MLK weekend Brian & Heather of PuraVida gave us a full report. This prompted us to make plans first thing Sat. […]
Read MoreBy Lowell | December 31, 2003 | Category Early Days
Happy New Year to All from the crew of Gato Loco.. Gato Loco is on the move for New Years. She has been setting in La Paz since Nov 13th when Bill, Carlton and Jake had an intense sail from Cabo San Lucas to La Paz . Bill will give us that story someday… Our […]
Read MoreBy Lowell | October 17, 2003 | Category Early Days
The greatest thing Gato Loco provides is a constant urge to venture to uncharted waters. I think we all already feel the urge… I’m sure you will hear about the next adventure soon. Baja is not really conquered as we have just scratched the surface. We plan to get to know her better in the […]
Read MoreBy Lowell | July 15, 2003 | Category Early Days
Gato Loco – The Mulege Cruise July 2 – 13, 2003… . Gato Loco is moving to a safer port for the fall hurricane season. Destination is San Carlos on the mainland side of the Sea of Cortez. San Carlos is 7 hours straight south of Phoenix in the Mexican state of Sonora. This destination […]
Read MoreBy Lowell | April 14, 2003 | Category Early Days
Gato Loco is on the move again. Lowell and Frankie are taking close friends Walt and Kathy and Murril and Al to La Paz for a week of Baja adventure. We plan on spending time sailing the islands near La Paz. We will also spend time sight seeing in the the area. We are flying […]
Read MoreBy Lowell | February 13, 2003 | Category Early Days
Looking from Cruise Port Marina towards down town Ensenada (4th of July) Captain Frankie.. Eric at the helm… Dave’s parade wave.. KataTonic 40’ cat from South Africa. Owners were from Long Beach area. Shelly relaxing as we cruise We had a great time visiting Ensenada during the summer and fall 2002 sailing Gato Loco. […]
Read MoreBy Lowell | February 1, 2003 | Category Early Days
And Chief HTML hacker.. I hope you enjoy our site. I’ve been taking digital pictures for years and created some small web projects. The Gato Loco experience seemed to be a great opportunity to take my photo hobby to a new level and try to organize them in an interesting, informative and […]
Read MoreBy Lowell | January 30, 2003 | Category Early Days
Jan 30 2003 Nancy and I had a great time in La Paz (the peace), weather was absolutely perfect 80 degrees day/60 degrees night. Wind came up strong every day from exactly 360 degrees north up to 20 knots. Best to motor sail north in morning before wind starts blowing and head south about […]
Read MoreBy Lowell | May 29, 2002 | Category Early Days
Gato Loco arrives in Long Beach May 30th Big Fun!!! Gato Loco arrived May 30. Rick flew to Long Beach to meet Kurt (our Seawind dealer) to help unload her from the container ship. The ship took 2 weeks to travel from Sydney to San Francisco then to Long Beach. They had to remove […]
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