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
A few months ago I blogged about the great a little sailing adventure I had delivering a very clean Catalina 30 from Vallarta to San Carlos. The name of the boat was Esprit. Ken was off loading Esprit after his purchase of a 34 Gemini named LunaSea. Ken was unfamiliar with how to dock LunaSea… Continue Reading
Robero Rivera came back to San Carlos for a short but non the less sweet day sail last Saturday. Of course he brought his very nice camera with him so these super pictures from that day I can not take credit for. Continue Reading
I was just recently, two and a half weeks ago, asked to do a boat delivery from Puerto Vallarta to San Carlos. September is pretty slow here and the timing was right so myself and one of my ex sailing students, Ron Brown, hopped on the bus to Paradise Village in Vallarta to sail Esprit;… Continue Reading
Kevin came back down to get some sailing and snorkeling and we had a very nice light wind southerly day with excellent snorkeling at Martini Cove or aka the Aquarium. The school bus size group of Sardines are still there and I bagged a few shots for the blog!! Continue Reading
Chris sailed/raced for years in dinghy’s and small sail boats and is thinking about getting a boat to sail in San Carlos so he can escape those cold winters up in Gunnison Colorado. He had enough experience to test out of Basic Keel Boat and move on to Basic Coastal. We had one light day… Continue Reading
Roberto is well on his way to having a boat in Puerto Vallarta. He came back in April and took another class with us and completed his Basic Coastal Cruising course. We had three nice days of gorgeous northwesterly wind, not to windy not to calm. He is now looking for a boat to sail… Continue Reading
Ben from Mesa and Brad from Rio Rico came down for a two day course on Ben’s recent purchase of an 1966 Island 30 that he found on craigslist. It was kind of weird weather with some over cast clouds but we did have some decent wind and were able to get the boat moving.… Continue Reading
Catherin and Cheryl came down from Tucson Arizona and had seven perfect days. Day 1 was windy and they both got a bit sea sick, Day’s 2 through 5 were perfect sailing days with any where from 5 to 10 knots of wind. Day 6 the start of the over night Bareboat charter certification saw… Continue Reading
I got this message from Milly who took the course in April of 2013. So what has Milly been up to in the last year, well she started by Sailing the English Channel in a Konsort 29, in typically snotty weather. Wind to 45 knots at times. After that 48 hour passage she messed around… Continue Reading