Welcome to Vagari’s 7th winter of sailing. We have put 8,000 miles under Vagari’s keel during those cruises but this year like last year won’t be a high mileage year. We just don’t have the lust for the long cruises that we did when we started cruising but we still enjoy living on board and sailing near our homeport. Welcome aboard! We hope you enjoy our blog. Your comments, questions and suggestions are appreciated and encouraged.

Friday, April 13, 2007

From La Paz Friday the 13th

We plan to leave La Paz Monday and spend a month returning to San Carlos. We will start with three other sailboats. The weather looks good for next week but long-range forecasts have not been very reliable in Mexico.

The the picture posted today will be the last for a while but I will do updates via email.

Lunch Underway Rhea is a very good cook even when we are sailing.

Monday, April 09, 2007

Note The Date Of The Survey On The Current Charts

We Had Easter Dinner on Saturday Night

Hola From La Paz - The Capital of the Mexican State of Baja California (South)

We have been moving every day since Loreto so not much time to post to the blog. No problems but Easter Sunday was a very long day with the wind, waves and current all against us. Another long day today (Monday) but the weather was beautiful however the wind was on the nose (meaning coming from right in front of us) but light so we couldn’t sail today either.

We are in a new marina well out of town but it was the only slip available. They told us to tie up in front of a really nice boat. But once they found out that we didn’t have a helicopter and an auto on board and our boat was 41’ long not our tender they assigned us another slip. To bad, because I bet our neighbors would have been really interesting people.

I will try and post the balance of the first set of pictures and a few more from the last few days soon.

Monrise At Sunset The Night Before We Crossed To The Baja

Sunrise On The Crossing Before The Fog Hit

Underway On The Crossing Before The Fog Hit

Looks Like a Shrine - This Was About 15 Feet In Front Of The Cross That Looked Like A Grave Marker

A Grave We Found On A Hike

Saturday, April 07, 2007

Hello From Gato & Toro Cove (Cat & Bull)

We are about 50 mils SE of Loreto where I posted some photos. Sorry about all the sunrises and sunsets.

Winds up to 25 KTS on the nose were forecast today s we made a short run early and were anchored before noon. In the afternoon the land heats up and increases the wind speed. We sailed a good part of today and yesterday.

It looks like we will do the same tomorrow. That should put us one long day from La Paz and our fiends on the s/v Linda

More from La Paz

Thursday, April 05, 2007

From Loreto

I’m going to try and post a few photos today. We ha a great time in San Juanico Cove. Went on two hikes with a cruiser friend. Had dinner on each other’s boat. Went to a bonfire on beach the second night. The Saddlebrooke Hiking Club would love that cove. Lots of hiking trails all with spectacular views. And none of the trails are really difficult.

Motored 25 miles down the Baja to Loreto today. Flat calm seas no wind over 5 kts. Purchased a few vegetables in Loreto and had a nice lunch.

The rest of the photos later.