Sail Cutthroat

Latitude N 18.10 W 116.11 John followed me on watch early this morning, at 0900Z.  Now, that would have been 4 AM Puerto Vallarta time, but now we’re really in the Pacific Time Zone, so that would be 2 AM in California…whatever – it was early, cold and dark!  I pulled out the genoa a [...]

Latitude N 18.10 W 112.58 After yesterday’s computer fiasco, I hooked up Roger’s backup laptop and sent the update as well as the position report. If you happened to check that feature out yesterday, you would have noticed we were in San Diego. Not sure how that happened, but apparently it sent the computer’s old [...]

Lat/Lon N18 41′ W110 13′ 13 April 2007 Good thing our plan was to go south down to the 18 degree of latitude rather than just trying to sail west. The winds have not been favorable to that point of sail and when they are we are making our westward movement as often as the [...]

Position – N19.53 W107.24 “So what time is it and who’s on watch?” “Can you adjust your watch?” Those are the questions we are dealing with now that we have departed Puerto Vallarta. We were all ready to go – we kept doing little things, like taking pictures, running spinnaker lines we won’t use for [...]

Well we’re down to our last week in Mexico. Can’t believe this time is coming to an end and we are about to set sail over the Pacific Ocean for some 3000 miles – pretty cool if you ask me! Our winter in Puerto Vallarta will be looked upon as one of the most relaxing [...]