Sail Cutthroat

8 November 2006
 
We had a very peaceful and relaxing transit out of Turtle Bay towards Bahia Santa Maria – right next store to Magdelena Bay.  It’s a little closer to Bahia SM and not as far to get to the anchorage area so we’ll stop there.  Plan is to leave tomorrow morning for Cabo [...]

7 November 
Did I mention just how absolutely perfect the sunrise and sunsets have been these past few days? 

 Being offshore with clear skies and a full moon, both are equally remarkable.  Let’s not forget the stars…incredible! 

So far we’ve had the idyllic trip south.  The winds are very fair out of the North to Northwest at 15 knots…just what the cruising books all say.  Today was a picture book day with blue skies, and perfect winds and seas – it couldn’t have been better.  We saw a few fish – dolphins [...]

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 [...]

N 23 116.172 W 106 27.304

Arriving in Mazatlan was relatively easy and painless. The harbor entrance is small, narrow and surrounded by rocks and two small jetties at either end. There are port and starboard entrance markers on top of the jetties but the lights were out (as we expected). There must [...]