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Marina Cortez

March 12, 2013Leave a Comment

Settled in to our new digs today: washed the boat, played at the other marina’s playground, hit the OXXO for iced coffee, and screwed around on deck. That’s it.

We gathered ourselves up this morning and finished motoring the last ten miles or so down to La Paz. We’re trying to get some things checked off the boat list once and for all and have a long list of mostly minor things that we’re going to buckle down and … Read More

Shoot

March 10, 20136 Comments

I took the kids out for a dinghy ride around the bay this afternoon. We hadn’t been toddling along for more than five minutes before Ouest announced with some urgency, “I have to poop.” I raced back to the boat, threw her up on deck, and she stomped downstairs to … Read More

Dipping the Bowsprit

March 09, 2013Leave a Comment

I don’t know what happens some nights. We spent the day in water so calm we could clearly see the bottom at twenty-five feet. I went to bed at ten and only a slight breeze rippled the water. And by 11:30 the bowsprit was dipping into the waves as we … Read More

Fish Tacos?

March 08, 20132 Comments

Today was one of our beach days. Nothing was done all day other than playing on the beach and in the water. In the water takes on a whole new meaning in this strange bay. From our boat it is a hundred yards or so to water that is just … Read More

Puerto Balandra

March 07, 20134 Comments

This morning we took off early, but still behind three other boats, headed north. Weather was predicted to be nothing. And since the channel we’d be going through is known to be an occasional boat buster with strong currents, funneling winds, and steep seas, we were as eager as the … Read More

Bay of Dreams

March 06, 20136 Comments

A day in Bahia de los Muertos (Bay of the Dead), or as the real-estate developers like to call it instead, the Bay of Dreams. Lame, right?

Crossing the Sea of Cortez

March 05, 201313 Comments

An uneventful night, which for us is always a good thing. Calm seas, no wind, and the kids slept all night. The only boat problem was the navigation lights crapping out on us after about three hours of use. I’m going to have to rewire all of those from start … Read More

Motor On

March 04, 20136 Comments

Back on the water today. We slipped the lines early this morning and left at low tide to sneak out through the narrow breakwater and back out to open ocean. There has been about two weeks of unusually windy, cool weather so when a few days of calms—or at least … Read More

Sunday

March 03, 20137 Comments

This is what happens to the freezer when we plug into shore power for a few weeks. That’s the freezer—the fridge looks the same. We thawed them both out yesterday so they’ll hopefully work better when we get underway again. Our freezer is so ridiculously large and deep that we’ve … Read More

Random Complaining

March 02, 20136 Comments

I really dislike cleaning this boat. There are just way too many nooks and crannies. This morning I spent an hour washing it and when Ali got back with the kids she stepped aboard, looked around, and asked, “Did you clean the boat?” –Sigh– Okay, so I missed half of … Read More

Mazatlan Gold Coast

February 28, 20131 Comment

After lunner today along the Gold Coast tourist section of town we took a walk inland through the neighborhoods. There is some money back there. There were a number of homes that took up entire city blocks as well as plenty of shabby little places tucked in and around corners. … Read More