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 [...]

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 be a [...]

First stop is Ensenada, Mexico.  Now you might ask why are we only going on such a short leg of 60 miles when we have almost 1200 to go???  Answer – we need to check into the county of Mexico to process through customs and get visas for our extended stay and Ensenada is the [...]

Ahoy matey’s from the s/v (sailing vessel) Cutthroat:We are still in San Diego but making final preparations for our first extended voyage. Actually, we plan on leaving Thursday, Nov 2d headed for Puerto Vallarta and the Paradise Village Resort Marina. We plan to spend about 2 weeks getting there – basically hopping from town to [...]

What could be more beautiful than a warm summer evening in lovely San Diego with the sun setting over the Pacific…