Ms. Toni is a 40 ft. Jim Brown. The owner had some serious health issues and the boat was left for a few years basically unattended here in the San Carlos at the Los Tomates anchorage in San Carlos Bay. We got the boat put into the Marina just before Hurricane Newton devastated the area… Continue Reading
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Kathryn & Rodrigo get three perfect cloudy breezy rainy days for basic keel boat!
You never know what summer time will bring when teaching a sailing course. You are of course guaranteed warm water and this year we got two beautiful cloudy days and had the opportunity to sail through some refreshingly rain showers. That doesn’t happen all that often. Kathryn from the Alamos mine up in northern Sonora… Continue Reading
Dialing in a Halman 20 in San Carlos
I had the vast pleasure of sailing a Halman 20 the other day here in San Carlos. The boat came with a house purchase and I helped the new owner get the boat a bit sorted out. Halman Manufacturing Company built boats from 1978 to 1997 based out of Ontario Canada. The boats are serious… Continue Reading
Bob and Flo from the plains of Calgary did 7 windy days in a row
Bob and Florence had incredible weather for their 7 day sailing course. February tends to be the windiest and coldest month of the year here in San Carlos but this year was a bit different. Due to the monster el nino we are having this year the water temperature is still hovering around around 70… Continue Reading
Day 3 of 7 day course with Fernando, Emily & Fernando
Some shots from our third day out sailing with Fernando and his two kids. They are progressing rapidly plus we found the local dolphins in their usual spot! Continue Reading
Fred & Alissa Basic Keel Boat, three sweet days!
So Fred came down from chilly Northern California and Alissa is finishing up her Masters in Linguistics in Southern California and we had a really nice three day basic keel boat sailing course!! And I got off my lazy butt and actually have the pictures to prove it! Continue Reading
Custom Installed Winch on Glenns Irwin 34
So a buddy/sailing student of mine recently purchased a Irwin 34 and was looking to have a winch installed so after some on line research we came up with this custom install for him!! It came out super dubber nice and the chain now runs directly into the chain locker and you never have to… Continue Reading
Gerald and Family all the way from Louisiana to San Carlos for Basic Keel boat 101
Gerald drove all the way to San Carlos from Shreveport LA. to take 101 basic Keel boat. By the end of the three days his kids were a well oiled machine and ready to kick dad off the boat and sail it themselves!! Continue Reading
Rodrigo & Mike 7 days plenty of wind
Day one was light wind, today was day 5 and we had gusts of 30 knots and some seriously nice seas. Continue Reading
Baja Crossing; Punta Pulpito to Punta Chivato then back to San Carlos with Ivan & Garvin
Had a great time sailing with the brothers Ivan and Garvin on a wild and wooly crossing to the Baja. We left San Carlos Monday afternoon and reached Punta Pulpito around 15 hours later. The crossing saw 25 knot winds with 6 to 8 foot seas. From Pulpito we worked our way north to the… Continue Reading