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Our friend Mary asked us what a typical day looked like on board during cruising season and she said we should make a video. Well, we shot the footage, but it turns out I don’t know much about editing video, … Continue reading →
2023 is our second year where we find ourselves wanting to prepare the boat to be tucked away in a marina over the summer months when the weather makes hopping from anchorage to anchorage uncomfortable (if the heat doesn’t stop … Continue reading →
This year we decided to have a longer off season than we did last year. Last year our season came to an end in late June as we were trying to get out of the heat in the Sea of … Continue reading →
I haven’t been able to find a marina map for La Cruz. We found this on a big billboard on the entrance to marina, which isn’t that helpful. Maybe it’s online somewhere but hopefully this will help some people that … Continue reading →
I thought it might be good to make a post about Mazatlán as it is our favorite larger Pacific Mexico city. The main four we’ve been to are Ensenada, Mazatlán, Puerto Vallarta and La Paz. We also really liked Ensenada, … Continue reading →
In late November we took a 14 hour overnight busride from Mazatlán to Manzanillo and then an afternoon cab ride to Barra de Navidad to spend 5 nights at the Isla Navidad resort where the Panama Posse kickoff meetings were … Continue reading →
Right now I have a backlog of at least three blog posts. In fact, I have started to draft or envision three particular topics and just haven’t gotten around to it. One is the long-promised post on food. It’s a … Continue reading →
We spent one more month cruising the Sea of Cortez in 2022. We had hoped to have more time to enjoy it without the brutal heat we encountered in June but some difficult to diagnose boat problems kept us in … Continue reading →
This is a technical post, so if you’re not interested please feel free to skip it. With Starlink being so easy and powerful, it’s been very easy to quickly rely on Starlink’s high speed internet access for our journeys. But … Continue reading →
We took longer than we’d hoped getting our boat ready for the new season after putting her away in Marina San Carlos, Sonora for the months of July-October. We’d hoped to be moving again by mid-October but our project list … Continue reading →