Category: 2019 – 2020 Season 1

We woke up about 7:30 or so. It is Easter! The Lord is risen!

The weather is calm and clear, no waves, no wind, just gorgeous! We texted with a few friends and family, had breakfast and listened to a sermon. This one is the easter message from North Coast church from 2018. Pastor Chris Brown, titled A Holiday for Flowers and Fools.

It was a fairly quiet day, mostly spent reading and playing with the GO Pro, enjoying the calm. I Investigated the way the battery monitor works, and the inverter, learning that the inverter is a 2000 watt, not 2500 watts I thought that it was. I am not sure where I got the larger number, I went back and looked at the add for the boat, it only says it has an inverter, does not mention the size. Of course in looking through the add, I noted that it also says that the boat came with “ KVH TracVision G4 18″ SAT TV w/gyro trac & DirecTV HD receiver” these are not on the boat, and have not been since we got the boat. I am sure that there would be a cost for using Satellite TV. I don’t know if it is something we would want on the boat or not.

We had Christina and Michele from S/V Inia over for dinner. They have a 55-58 foot ketch and have been sailing for about 20 years. They sailed originally from France and have been to French Polynesia, the Caribbean and British Columbia etc. They speak French and very good English, and Spanish as well. I was the only one that limited conversation, as I only speak English, and some would say not very well. We had steak for dinner, then played Qwirkle. Afterwards, they headed back. We had tried to start early enough that they could go back while it was still light, but that a did not work out. In the meantime, another boat came in. We have no idea what kind as it was too dark to see anything but their anchor light.

After they left, we started the generator to get hot water for showers and to wash dishes, and Renee’ wanted to watch Ben-Hur. (Auto correct sure did not like that name, it took 4 tries to get it to stay as written.

We do have room for guests, if anyone is interested in visiting and spending a week or so with us, drop us a line and we will coordinate. What you have to do/have is you need a sport and will need to be able to get to where we are when you are going to be down. When we know what time frame you are thinking about we can let you know where we expect to be so that you can make your travel arrangements.

If you want to know where we are, click this link:

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No pictures today

We woke up late this morning, almost 8 am. It was pretty windy and overcast, also a bit cool. We had breakfast and did our devotions.

The rest of the morning was spent reading, and texting friends and family. I also spent some time writing out my thoughts on our boat’s systems. Including upgrades and modifications that I have thought about.

After lunch, we talked about it and then I used the dinghy to go over and invite our neighbors for dinner tomorrow night. They are coming over and we will have company for the first time in ages!

The weather has been kind of yucky, overcast, windy and cool all day. We texted with our friends in Iowa, Southern California and relatives in Northern California. The friends in Southern California told us that they have had 6 inches of rain since last Sunday (6 days). While that may not seem like a lot for someone in the midwest or northwest, in Southern California (where it NEVER rains) it is a bunch! So, we have nothing to complain about.

Late afternoon, Renee’ did some hand washing, did some cooking, and I played with the GO Pro. It is a pretty cool little device. The one I have was lost by someone else, I tried to figure out who by contacting the company GO Pro, they said I should hold on to it (I am guessing that means don’t sell it) and it has been a couple of years now, so I seriously doubt anyone is going to claim it at this point. I bought a kit of stuff for it and a couple of batteries and a charger for the camera. When I got it, there was a battery (that was dead) but no memory card in it. In the kit of stuff, there is a waterproof case, and a variety of holders, straps and suction cups and clips and floats and stuff. I guess we will have to start using it.

We do have room for guests, if anyone is interested in visiting and spending a week or so with us, drop us a line and we will coordinate. What you have to do/have is you need a sport and will need to be able to get to where we are when you are going to be down. When we know what time frame you are thinking about we can let you know where we expect to be so that you can make your travel arrangements.

If you want to know where we are, click this link:

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We woke up early this morning, about 6 am. Very calm weather and a great sunrise.

We read for a bit, and then had breakfast and did our devotions.

Following which we discussed what to do next. Options we discussed:

1. Whether or not to go straight to San Felipe or Puerto Peñasco
   1. Reasons to do this, if we are not going to see anybody anyway, we could at least have internet and access to stores etc.
2. Whether to do it directly (no) or go with one or two days at each port instead (yes)

After lunch, we took a spin in the dinghy, mainly to get Renee’ some time driving the dinghy so she knows the basics at least on how to use it. We also swung by the new boat at anchor S/V Inia, with Christina and Michael, they are French, and the boat is a Ketch 55 -58 feet long.

Later, Renee’ sent an email too Salvador in PUERTO PEñASCO asking about how things are going, and if there are openings still for us. He responded with the information and his phone number. Renee’ called and asked about the phone number for the Fonatur Marina. She then called there and got the information. Basically it comes down to there is a quarantine period once we enter PUERTO PEñASCO, there are slips available at Fonatur, the price is 6 pesos per foot (at about 24 pesos to the dollar, that means our price will be about $12 a day US, there may be a break on a weekly rate. We will probably head up that way with a plan to get there with a couple of weeks to spare for the haul out date of May 11, that way our quarantine will be done before we get hauled out.

We do have room for guests, if anyone is interested in visiting and spending a week or so with us, drop us a line and we will coordinate. What you have to do/have is you need a sport and will need to be able to get to where we are when you are going to be down. When we know what time frame you are thinking about we can let you know where we expect to be so that you can make your travel arrangements.

If you want to know where we are, click this link:

https://forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/display/Make_Me_Laugh_Again

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We woke up at about 7 am, and got up slowly. The anchorage was very calm. Eventually we got coffee, then had breakfast on deck, and noticed our neighbors pulling their anchor up. We used Jesus Calling for our devotions this morning.

We did not see exactly when they left, but by 9 am or so are neighbors were gone. We saw two pangas come in and hang out for a bit, it looked like one of them was near shore working on clams. By about 10, we got the kayak down and went ashore. We went along the edge of the water and checked out the rocks. Once we got to the low point between this bay and the bigger one, we pulled the kayak out of the water and put on our boots. We hiked up and around the point to the palapa we saw on the point. This is the only structure in this bay. There appears to be a wrecked boat on the south side, but now that everyone has left, it is just us again. We will see if we get anymore company in the next day or two. The water appears to be a bit too dirty to swim in. Probably because there is no circulation, it is just a back water. The only change of the water is due to the tide, which last night was pretty big, at least 8 feet, based on Navionics tide program.

We had lunch at the palapa, and enjoyed the peace and quiet for a bit. Then hiked back along the waters edge to the kayak and then back to the boat by 1 pm. We figured out that several of the zippers on the backpack are stuck (probably from the salt air). Renee’ sprayed them with WD-40 and got them working again, but they need zipper lube, so I will do that next.

We do have room for guests, if anyone is interested in visiting and spending a week or so with us, drop us a line and we will coordinate. What you have to do/have is you need a sport and will need to be able to get to where we are when you are going to be down. When we know what time frame you are thinking about we can let you know where we expect to be so that you can make your travel arrangements.

If you want to know where we are, click this link:

https://forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/display/Make_Me_Laugh_Again

 

 

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We woke up at about 6AM. The anchorage had developed significant swells. The boat was rocking probably 45 degrees. Renee’ had left the stove locked in place (It swivels with the racking of the boat to maintain a level surface to cook on), and as a result, the pans that were left on it fell off with a crash. So much for sleeping in just a bit. She got up and made coffee and picked up the pots and pans. I got up shortly after that, and we were underway by a 7 am.

We wound up motoring all day, at one point the wind got up to about 20 knots (that lasted about 20 minutes) then back to less than 10 knots. All the wind today was within about 15 degrees of straight ahead. Which means we would have had to do some serious tacking to be able to use it, and we were in a channel, so with the wind being light and it being on the nose, we just motored. We ran the water maker and topped off the tank. Then we dumped the holding tank. It took longer to run the water maker than we expected 3.5 hours. That is two days use and one load of laundry.

The only thing really interesting that we saw today was a place where it was very calm coming out of Bahia San Francisquito and then it looked like waves breaking on the flat water. The expected depth there, based on our charts (both the chart plotter and Navionics on the iPad) was about 200 feet.

We arrived in Puerto Don Juan at about 3 pm. This is a “hurricane hole” it is surrounded by land, with only one small window to the north that looks out on Bahia Los Angeles. There is land across the bottom of this window, but it is not very tall. The entrance makes a turn as it comes in, so effectively there is land all the way around. A downside to this (as reported in the books) in the summer time, there is no breeze here and it gets very hot.

There is another boat here, we can see that there are two guys on board and as we were coming in one of them was rowing a dinghy across this little bay.

We do have room for guests, if anyone is interested in visiting and spending a week or so with us, drop us a line and we will coordinate. What you have to do/have is you need a sport and will need to be able to get to where we are when you are going to be down. When we know what time frame you are thinking about we can let you know where we expect to be so that you can make your travel arrangements.

If you want to know where we are, click this link:

https://forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/display/Make_Me_Laugh_Again