El Salvador cruising and the Submarine Submarine? Yes, wait for it. In keeping with our plan to sail from Puerto Vallarta to Panama and back this season, we made a two night passage to El Salvador. It’s a cool 250 …
Crossing the Tehuantepec
Crossing the Tehuantepec – an account by Jessica In the spirit of continuing to keep the blog better updated, I am faced with writing the section about crossing the Tehuantepec. I don’t relish reliving these moments but to paraphrase a …
Exploring near Huatulco
The trek to Acapulco was a long one, and a big reason why most cruisers stop at Zihuatanejo. But our chosen journey is lengthy and ambitious, and three more such legs lay ahead of us before we will arrive at …
The Acapulco Stopover
Zihuatanejo is the usual turning point for cruisers southbound along the western coast of mainland Mexico. I see why. From there south, the passages become longer and longer and the high crime rate in Acapulco, the next stop with any …
Fall 2019 – Summer 2020 cruising season
Fall 2019- Summer 2020 cruising season Jess and I got back to Mexico in early November to get the boat ready. It’s actually quite a lot of work. Boat covers have to be removed Sails reinstalled Sheets and guys rerun …
Summer 2019 Camping
Summer Camping in the Pacific Northwest Was the summer of ’19 We’d had enough of the heat near Puerto Vallarta at the end of the spring 2019 cruising season so we drove back to the States and went camping! A …
Zihuatanejo Mexico and back
This post is a little late but we’ve been…. busy! 😃 Summary of a Season For anyone unfortunate to have read my submission to Catalina Yachts Mainsheet magazine in which I detailed the difficulties I had adjusting to the cruising …