<\/font> <\/p>\n Doug proudly displays his introductory Baja drink.<\/p>\n You gota love the Puerto Escondido marina. They had Gato Loco\u2019s bottom cleaned and moved her to the dock from the mooring field. No time at all we had our provisions and bags stowed and hatches open to let her cool down while we go to the restaurant for dinner.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The crews heading north. Jeffrey and Doug and the Miss Grace crew Laurence, Mat and skipper Mark.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Readying to depart on Wednesday the bat rays were active near us in the marina. In the photo right you see a lady photographing a ray that has jumped 6\u2019 in the air just in front of her. I did fly the drone over them and hopefully got some action shots.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wednesday after catching all the weather news we made way 10:30 heading 44 miles north to an anchorage north of Pulpito. Winds were light but from the southwest forcing us to motor sail, occasionally giving us a good push arriving 2 hours before sunset. We were 3 boats with Miss Grace and a Canadian boat Shala following us since this was their first time in the Sea of Cortez. The sea swell grew to 4\u2019 as we neared the anchorage and luckily did not reach the anchorage well protected from the SE seas.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sunset from our anchorage Bahia San Nicolos with Miss Grace at a distance<\/p>\n Fantastic dinner over night with some leftovers for tomorrow.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Back to Thursday <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Overnight winds off Baja kept things cool but a bit noisy. The anchorage is calm as we depart 8ish for our 65 mile day to Santa Rosalia. Wind forecast is for 20kts out of the SE by early afternoon. This could be fun!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jeffrey and Doug proudly pose for the morning brunch serving.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n As predicted winds are up 11ish. The rollers have grown to 8\u2019 at times with Pacific like spacing. Autohelm can\u2019t handle steering with the big seas so we\u2019re hand steering. Doug soon takes the helm is loving the experience so much I can\u2019t get the wheel back from him. He ends up hand steering nearly all the way to Santa Rosalia. As you can see in the photos below the seas are large enough to hide Miss Grace behind us.<\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n Awesome, Awesome day of sailing. By far the best day this season. We\u2019re in to Santa Rosalia 2 hours earlier than the 6kt average prediction as we were hitting 10+ kts surfing down the big rollers. <\/p>\n![\"IMG_20180612_164413510_HDR\"](\"https:\/\/www.gatolocosailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_20180612_164413510_HDR.jpg\" "\\"IMG_20180612_164413510_HDR\\"")
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