Category: 2025-04 (April)

Published 05/06/2025
Up at 3:30, underway by 4 am. Breakfast and bible reading underway. Virtually no wind all the way across, highest was about 7 knots. Very quiet trip. We only saw a couple of fishing boats and one sailboat in the first 65 miles. We will see what we see as we finish the 75 miles. Well we didn’t see another boat until we were about 5 miles from the end of our journey.
We wanted to anchor in Martini Cove, but it’s very small and there was a couple of boats there already. Oh well, we headed back a few miles to where we ended up (see the pictures). While I was working on getting the anchor ready, my hat got caught in the wind and flipped into the water. We were able to get one more man overboard drill in! We were successful and the hat is drying out now.
We anchored in Lalo Cove a couple of miles from the marina.
It was a very quiet day.

Published 05/06/2025
Up at 6:30 or so. Breakfast, bible reading a trip to the store and preparing to get underway tomorrow.
Renee’ told the office we were done with shore power and I got us unplugged, that way we can pay our bill today. Shore power off, bilge rinsed, hose and cords put away. Garbage off the boat. Pulled pork on the stove for dinner and future meals. We got showers before turning off the power, so we would have hot water to wash the dishes. We have to have AC power (either shore power or run the generator) or run the engine to heat the hot water tank. Our friends that have been here for the last week mostly have left for points north or south, but another boat friend arrived this afternoon, SV Soulmate with Lisa and Patrick. We will have a beer with them at the micro brewery and afterwards come back to the boat and turn in early. Tomorrow we get underway by 4 am, as it is abut 75 miles across. Roughly 12 hours, and we like to have a little extra time in case of issues.
We will not have much wind, so it will be a motor trip, and no moon light as it comes up after the sun and we get there before sunset. The marina is very well lit up at night, so getting out should not be a problem.

Published 05/06/2025
Up at 6 am, breakfast, then Reneé contacted the laundry lady and found out that we either get it done today or don’t as she is closed tomorrow. So, we got our stuff organized and she went to the place to get Tamales. They are usually sold out by 10 when she has been there before. I waked the laundry up to the parking lot at 9. We are waiting for water delivery today as well. I cleaned the strainers today, they did not really need it, but it doesn’t take much time to do it.
I went through the list of things to do before leaving the boat and upon return. This list is pretty long, I have it as a checklist on my notes. This way when I complete something it gets checked off and moves to the bottom of the list.
We had 600 liters of drinking water delivered to the boat (about 158,5 gallons). We use about 12 gallons per day, we last filled up on 5/14, so 14 days at 12 gallons should have been 168 gallons. We did not overfill the tank, but should be good for another two weeks at least. We have 14 days left until we move off the boat (the last week will be in the San Carlos Marina and should have water to be able to run the water maker with dock water and top off the tank anyway, so we are in really good shape for water.

Published 05/06/2025
Up at 6:30, Reneé got the cinnamon rolls in the oven and I got a shower. Joe and Vanessa (maybe Julie from nest door) are coming over to watch the service from Savannah.
Later today, I think we will pull the boat out and bring it back in bow first. We have a delivery of 600 liters of water scheduled for tomorrow. Our water fill is on the starboard side, and it will be easier if that is the side to the dock.
At the end of the day, we did not move the boat, we did not go to Padre Santo, and instead watched a movie. Too much wind, it’s Sunday and Padre Santo was closed. We went to the fish taco stand and had lunch. A nice quiet day.

Published 05/06/2025
UP at 6 am, breakfast and bible reading. Then do a little organizing on the boat, and catching up on the blog. After lunch we took a “little walk” we went to the cemetery, it is less than a mile away, but it is 500 feet higher in elevation. This is about a 9.5% grade. Lots of stairs and steep roads. Then back to the boat.
We met up with a bunch of the other cruisers at Padre Santo for happy hour, with a plan to walk into town for the Hot Dog Festival. This is the 4th annual. They make a huge deal out of cutting a ribbon a speech by the mayor of Santa Rosalía and Mulege where she went to each of the hot dog carts and presented a certificate and talked about what they were selling. Of course there was a person in a life size hot dog costume, the mayor (a lady) wore a very red long dress and there was a bunch of hot dog carts. They sell hotdogs wrapped in bacon and with either pulled pork or aracherea in a fantastic local made bun. Then it is off to the stage in front of the government house to watch all the performances, kids dancing and singing and dogs in costumes like hot dogs and it goes on.
We got back to the boat about 8:45 and headed off to bed.