Tag: adventure

  • Day 1 of Passage from MX to FP

    7:30am, anchor up and underway.  Happy Easter morning!  Coffee (small) and steel cut oats for breakfast.  Scopolamine patches put on last night to prevent seasickness, dry mouth already starting ,but they work great for our family.  Friends on Amizade up and waving to us as we got underway.  Starting out in Bandaras Bay, calm and…

  • One Week Until Departure

    And the results of the Trashboat Regatta…Calder Hyer in 2nd place, a trophy now on our dash! Projects are getting checked off the list daily.  Chris replaced the line organizer turn blocks at the base of the mast.  These important parts direct all the lines from the cockpit to the mast and had become corroded…

  • Chacala, a Swell Anchorage

    After successfully pulling our anchor at Isla Isabel, we set off for the town of Chacala, 55 nm away on mainland Mexico.  Our start was a bit slow, dodging a fishing line (typically marked by jugs ranging from 1 L to 5 gallon plastic soda bottles), then having issues raising the screecher that kept getting…

  • A Child’s Mind

    Woke up quite early to anxiety-provoking wind gusts, earlier than predicted, and decided to haul anchor and get underway to Puerto Escondido, winds having shifted pushing us onto the other shore of Honeymoon Cove on Isla Danzante.  Our anchoring routine is getting old, as we’ve had a broken windlass remote, sketchily holding the hot power…