By Lowell | June 8, 2012 | Category Baja 2012
Wednesday June 6, Day 9 Departing Puerto Refugio winds show some promise for another day with the wind behind us. Weather is cool and our morning starts with an anchorage visit from a pad of dolphins as we’re exiting. They’re probably chasing a school of fish working the shallow waters with team work. By mid […]
Read MoreBy Lowell | June 7, 2012 | Category Baja 2012
Monday June 4, Day 7 The fog bank east of us, as we motor out of Cala San Francisquito 8ish, slowly rolls over us making a nice cool morning. The day starts with flat seas and 1.5 kt tide running in our favor this time. It seems the magic time of day for us […]
Read MoreBy Lowell | June 4, 2012 | Category Baja 2012
Saturday June 2, day 5 In to the Mystic. Morning dew is very heavy as we haul anchor and motor out of the Mulege channel. Turning north towards Punta Chavato we soon see why. There’s a fog bank a few miles north creating probably nearly 100% humidity. We have good way-points in the GPS so […]
Read MoreBy Lowell | June 2, 2012 | Category Baja 2012
Friday June 1, day 4 sailing north Awesome, Awesome Awesome, the wind promised by the ham net arrived by 10 AM as we motored north out of San Sebastian heading for Mulege, 35 miles north. Yesterday’s wind was on our nose which would have been a big pain to make Mulege. Today we […]
Read MoreBy Lowell | June 1, 2012 | Category Baja 2012
Wed May 30th, Day 2 of our 11 day cruise north. The sail didn’t come out of the bag during our passage to San Juanico, quite a contrast to our spinnaker ride during the rally. Arriving 5ish we stopped by the pinnacles that stand tall on the southern point of San Juanico to cool […]
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