Tag: sailing with kids

  • The Night Before Departure

    Out at anchor, to-do lists checked off (mostly), last minute food prepped and stowed, the dinghy tied up tight to our stern, the weather checked…one cannot help but be contemplative about the upcoming voyage.  We plan to pull the anchor by 8am and be on our way.  The passage from Mexico to French Polynesia is…

  • A Week in the Life

    And…we are still at the La Cruz marina…preparations, preparations, preparations, and a bit of play.  Here is one full week of daily journal entries to give you a feel of our La Cruz dock life. It got a bit long! March 6, 2024 La Cruz has an active cruising kids group led by a passionate…

  • Isla Isabel: A Gem in a Rockpile

    We timed our 310 nm crossing of the Sea of Cortez to arrive at the remote Isla Isabel during daylight and during a calm period, as it is a fair-weather anchorage only.  To call it an anchorage is an over-statement.  Not only is there poor holding, there is minimal actual holding and instead a pile…

  • 310-miles from Baja to Pacific Mexico

    6:45am, underway from Cardoncito (Isla Partida) to Isla Isabel with NW winds steady 15, gusts higher, and steep close together 5-7 foot seas.  We decided to go north around the tip of Isla Partida and then make a straight shot southeast across the Sea of Cortez to Isla Isabel.  In retrospect, this was the wrong…

  • Farewell (for now) Sea of Cortez

    Tomorrow, we leave the Sea of Cortez, heading toward mainland Pacific Mexico on our biggest passage thus far at over 300 miles, a two-night crossing.  We have travelled a total of 1,530 nautical miles as of today. Heading south in the Sea with buddy boat Kaaluna, we had a very productive trip to our anchorage…

  • Turning Our Bow South

    We now turn our bow south for the next leg of this journey, our next major provisioning stop on mainland Mexico in a couple weeks.  We also start more intense preparation for our upcoming passage across the South Pacific.  Our time here in the Sea of Cortez is coming to a close, as I marvel…

  • 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…