Tag: SV Terikah

  • Day 11: Pacific Crossing from Mexico to French Polynesia (half way!)

    We continue on the same course from the last few days, quite cloudy all around, will need to start the generator to charge our batteries without the sun.  We are still experiencing some wind (15-20 knots) and have our Code Zero up, as we approach the ITCZ. This morning I lost rock-paper-scissors and had to…

  • 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…

  • Northerlies for Navidad

    Into the Sea, we were greeted by the expanse of white sand beach and turquoise waters that is Playa Bonanza.  In sheer bliss, we paddle boarded to shore, dug our toes into the sand, delighted in new shells, swam; then realizing we had brought neither water (nor beer) to shore; paddled back to the boat,…

  • Winter Solstice Musings & Mirages

    San Jose del Cabo had the perfect marina to regroup for two nights – fuel up, scrub the salty boat, fill the fridge, do the laundry.  It was quite the fancy marina, as we tucked between mega yachts feeling small and dirty, fancy art sculptures along the marina sidewalks.  I wanted to do my own…

  • Mangroves & Poetry Passages

    Bahia Magdalena (known to yatistas as Mag Bay) is a massive, sheltered bay of mangroves, sand dunes, and fishing villages, 25 by 13 miles in size.  We anchored for four nights off the village of Puerto Magdalena and could have stayed another week to explore the mangrove systems and beaches.  The town has about 50…

  • Bahia Asuncion & Bahia Santa Maria

    Bahia Asuncion is 50 nm south of Turtle Bay.  After a wonderful downwind sail with our asymmetric spinnaker flying, we anchored off this active fishing village for a few nights.  The beach made for excellent walking, shell collecting, and surf swimming.  The town is rustic, but had one main paved road with “handicap accessible” sidewalks…

  • Conversations with the Moon: Ensenada to Bahia Tortugas

    Mexican exit paperwork seems to take even longer when standing at the dock, lines ready to throw, as sunset rapidly approaches on the night of a greatly anticipated departure.  We had checked out of Ensenada in the morning, as boats have to check in and out of each major Port of Entry, but the papers…