Sail Cutthroat

We had a nice morning in port – good breakfast, made some more changes to the website – added pictures, and ran the jack lines and sheets for the genyker.  The weather forecast is calling for light winds from the NW at 10 kn.  That will put the wind behind us totally which can be uncomfortable and with only 10 kn, I can see the engine running in today’s future.  Getting out of this way too small slip has caused me some concern – it’s always dicey and one of the most frightening parts of the sailing experience.  While we hadn’t planned on leaving until after lunch around 2 PM, the winds were starting to build in the harbor and there were suddenly people to assist in throwing the bow over as we pulled out so we left post haste at 1130 hrs. So off we went with an absolutely flawless exit from our “oh too small” slip.  

 

 

From the very first time I sailed to Ensenada (a couple of years ago) I wanted to go south beyond Bahia Todos Santos (a couple of little islands marking the southwest side of the bay and representing the world beyond the SoCal coastline.  It is also the outer limits of our normal yacht insurance policy – so naturally I wanted to go there.   Well it was certainly no big deal – just another left turn past a big rock, but it does represent crossing into new territory which is what this cruising thing is all about.  Seas were rather large (8-10 ft most of the afternoon and early evening.  Not everyone was feeling well so we didn’t eat lunch.  Rog and I had some soup that Carol made before we left port earlier.  The afternoon turned into a dark early evening and the winds and seas died down.  The full moon came out and lit our path until after midnight.  We are approaching Sacramento Reef (nothing to do with Sacramento) where we want to stay well away from.  For those of you who are interested our latitude and longitude is 29.47.776 N and 116.03.959W.  Needless to say I still haven’t gotten the Google Earth thing working – a task for Puerto Vallarta (unless Robert on s/v Lawur can help me out sooner).  FYI – our marina neighbors, Robert and Nikki Schmidt left San Diego last November and are now on their final leg to New Zealand with their two small boys, Sebastian and Benjamin, and Matey the cat.  We have been fortunate to learn much from their experience and they continue to provide great tips to us Pacific novices.  Thanks guys – and be safe out there!  They have a great website that details their adventures www.lawur.com  for those of you interested.Well we’re in for another beautiful day with what appears to hold much of the same weather, wind and seas as yesterday.  I’ve got all this food prepared and hopefully we’ll do a better job of enjoying some of it.  So far, cheese sticks, apples, soup and ginger snaps seem to be the popular items.  At this rate – we might even lose some weight on the way to PV (nahhhh!)