BajaBash 2021: 1000 miles of uphill sailing off the coast of Mexico
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- In this episode, I join as crew to help deliver a Santa Cruz 52 sailboat from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to San Diego California.
We motor sail over 1000 nautical miles against wind, waves, and current over the course of 9 days.
We begin our adventure at Puerto Vallarta with planned stops at Cabo San Lucas and Bahia Tortugas to top up on diesel and provisions. We added a stop to anchor at Bahia Santa Maria to wait for a better weather window.
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Love Puerto Vallarta except for the airport as the plane has to do a dive bomb to land. Anyway the brick laid streets downtown are beautiful and some of the little bars for locals a few miles out of town are a fun in a trippy kind of way. I went 5 mile out of town and stumbled upon a little dodgy place where I could hear the Local band playing 300 feet from the place and decided to give it a go. As I walked in the door the place went silent and I could hear the whisper of a few locals saying , “ hey gringo” and a few moments later the band started back thank God. I stayed for a bit longer then left with a unique experience but kinda spooky. 😎✌️
The best adventures are off the beaten path. Sounds like you had a cool experience.
Sailed to La Paz on 29 foot sailboat from San Fransisco in 1978. How things have changed. Cabo was just a little bay with few amenities and turtle bay was nothing but tin huts. We had to land our dingy on the shore. When leaving my Father in Law misjudged the waves and swamped our dingy getting our cookies and bread wet
I think I would have enjoyed Cabo more back in the day. I still found Turtle Bay to be quaint and rustic, but I'm sure it is quite different since the 70s.
Had a drink for New Year’s Eve with your shipmate Kirby tonight. Great video as always
Nice. Looking forward to sailing with Kirby again. Happy 2022!
Great job, glad to see you back
Thanks. Always glad to get back out on the water.
Love it. Great video. Thanks for sharing.
I'm hoping for many more adventures now that I've retired in the manner to which I have become accustomed!
Awesome video! Looks like another great adventure. That was a lot of fish. Looks like you guys weren't gonna be starving.
Thanks! We caught more fish than I was expecting. It helped having ceviche for dinner a couple of evenings while the propane wasn't working.
@@keeldragger That’s freakin awesome. I hope the refitting is doing well. Looking forward to seeing you on the new adventures.
@@battleborn9047 I'm about to order a new engine & v-drive. ETA is April :-(. I'll be doing local stuff in the Valiant for a few months.
Notice the apparel change.....it's getting colder and more miserable. That's why you don't want to come north.
It cooled off quite a bit from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico to San Diego, California. Worst part was the cold rain towards the end of the delivery. Of course, this was in early December.
Awesome!! What a great trip!! Almost makes me want to buy a sail boat!! NOT! Congrats, all that you are missing is rounding the horns!! Keep the videos coming!
Sailboats are pretty efficient at motoring!
@@keeldragger This video is like the Ironman videos. They make it look so cool in 45 min, as you sit in your chair, but when you are out there, no music, and 140.6 miles to go, well then reality hits you! Hahaha!! Great video none the less. How soon before you depart to sail the world?
Truth. Some of those dog watches were a bit brutal. ETA for repower is april-may time frame. Local adventures will continue in the meantime.
LOVED IT. WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN ALONG.
Glad you enjoyed it! It would have been a lot of fun catching those fish with you and Dad!
That was cool. Do they not fuel from the pier in Turtle Bay any longer?
I believe they do, but you are med mooring. Much easier to drop a single hook and fuel via panga.
@@keeldragger I ran Yachts yrs ago and have made that trip from SD to Cabo and back to SD a few times. We would drop the hook and back up to the pier and throw lines to the guys on the dock. They would swing a fuel hose to us and we would fill up. Piece of cake.