Tag: Hyer

  • Day 8: Crossing from MX to FP

    The seas and wind decreased a bit overnight, making my morning watch (5-9am) enjoyable as the sun came up.  Flying fish in all directions, trying to outfly/outswim the boobie birds who circle our boat.  Birds always seem very curious about us, sometimes landing on us (a place to rest?), other times circling around us (perhaps…

  • Day 4: Passage from MX to FP

    All of us a bit “drained” after our rolly night, enjoyed a hearty breakfast of eggs and potatoes.  Captain down to take a nap; we are trying our best to conserve his energy for more squirrely times when he is truly needed at the wheel.  He is the best active sailor of all of us. …

  • Day 2: Passage from MX to FP

    Starting the day out with minimal wind (5.3 knots) with boat speed only 2.5, down to gentle ocean swell and light chop.  All of us were a bit tired due to keeping watch and the loud bridgedeck slap keeping us awake (a “special” feature of catamarans).  Breakfast was homemade granola from Christine (thanks!) and fresh…

  • 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…

  • La Cruz de Huanacaxtle, Bandaras Bay

    Underway from Chacala, motoring at first, started to play with our asymmetrical spinnaker in light winds, jibed around the point, and had a ripping sail as the winds built to 15-19 knots into the famous and busy Banderas Bay, making a steady 7 knots downwind to our destination of La Cruz de Huanacaxtle.  We pulled…

  • Reunion in Bahia Concepcion

    After a long motor north in rolly seas, all of us a bit green except for Gma Hyer and Calder, we had a lovely final 1-hour sail into our anchorage, Bahia Santa Domingo in Bahia Concepcion.  Even my loaf of bread felt too ill to rise properly!  Bahia Concepcion is a large, narrow bay 25…

  • 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…

  • Going North despite Northers

    After the quietest night ever for New Year’s Eve (not even the sound of lapping against the hull) we woke to a brisk expected west wind and pulled anchor.  Setting the main sail and Code Zero (screecher), we sailed NORTH, which is an unexpected gift in the Sea during these winter prevailing winds.  We gladly…

  • New Year Musings as We Click off 1,000 miles

    After our Navidad rest, we were ready to start our two-month northward journey up the Sea of Cortez, an excursion before heading back south to cross the Pacific Ocean in late March.  We started with exploration of three Isla Espirtu Santo anchorages. Into El Empachado, a tiny cove, we were a bit disappointed to find…