The Story of guy and gal!

Beautiful saturday morning.  Away we go for a 43 miles journey today.  We will talk with  you as soon as we can. Lue and Claes and Joey

Yesterday on American thanksgiving day we were very thankful that we arrived at the Cape!  It signified our first complete leg of the journey!! yes   over two thousand miles and we are thrilled! The town itself was not the highlight but needless to say we went ashore with our sailing buddies...........remember there were five vessels travelling together on this last leg...........four Canadians and our good pals Nautilus from the USA.  With wobbly sea legs we walked the main downtown core of a very commercial touristy San Lucas.  Sure has changed since the last time we were here..............about 8 years we think.  We had a margarita right off and then found a great pizza place...............called  Wickeds", owned by Johnny from Vancouver.  On our way back to the dingy, we found a market and bought a few things.  The trips back and forth in the dingy took about 15 minutes each way and was quiet an experience as the waters are very busy wit...

which is 152 miles north of Cabos San Lucas.  This is a small little fishing village that was ravaged by a hurricane a few years ago and has not recovered yet.  There is a school with about twenty kids,a nice new church and very minimal provisions in the the little grocery store, which is basically part of someone's house.  It is all pretty sparse, with many buildings in disrepair  all of which are very small  and powered by a generator that is shut off at 10 pm.  There is a cantina that appears to serve the working fisherman regular meals as well as provides cervezes and food for us gringos.  Everyone is very friendly and very willing to chat in broken and minimal English with us not doing much better with our Spanish. One certainly can appreciate our beautiful Canadian neighbourhoods and amenities.............we only need to be as happy as they are with so little. Claes and I had a chore day and got a few things accomplished.  Tomorrow we wi...

A few days have passed since I last wrote and it is Sunday again. How does that happen? So quickly too! We finished our 27 hour sail and arrived in Santa Marie Friday morning around 11:00, tidied up and had a wee rest after which we hoisted the dingy into the water and headed for the beach. As you can see from the pictures there was quiet a lot of surf and the breakers went from one end of the beach to the other. As we approached them we talked out plan, counting the amount of waves and waiting for the right moment to run for it so to speak. We were a little anxious but once we were running up the beach, with the dingy in tow, our selves wet we could hardly contain the laughing. After a little time to catch our breaths we headed up the beach. And what a beautiful beach it was! Just so gorgeous, with soft clean sand with not a soul in sight! Claes enjoyed beaching combing and found a few treasures when we came across a lost set of nets………….for once I had a knife in my pa...

What's it really like out here? What do we do all day? Besides have all the fun???? Well, to begin with no two days are alike; there are many "chores" that need doing to run the vessel and some of these are dependent on what the plan for the day is. By that I mean are we anchoring, are we at dock or are we sailing and then if we are, for how long. For example —a short day trip of 50 nautical miles, if we have wind and we average 5 knot minimum an hour we can have a great day sailing and with the help of our Hydrovane Self Steering Wind Vane , as it steers the boat and keeps us on track, we can have a nap, read a book, type do whatever we want hands free from the wheel. I just love it. We have actually given it a name……"Doug" in memory of our great navigator and friend Doug Goodwind who started out the adventure with us out of Port Angeles………remember? Check out the photo gallery on the left hand side of the page and you can see him in one of the early al...

Today we will fill you in what it is like to do a long run. This means running all day all night and into the next day to arrive at our destination. If we average 5 knots of wind it will take us 27 hours to cover that distance. We did not get up very early as you will recall that the bay was shock full of lobster traps and we opted to not fight with them. Sure would be nice to pull one of them up on our way through but then we would likely be calling you to bail the Captain out of the clinker!!! They frown upon that here as well as back home—snatching someone elses catch that is. We are not allowed to fish for shell fish of any kind so we are anxious to find someone to trade for a feed. We pulled up anchor and were on the way by 8 am. We have had a nice little NW wind that has produced a steady 4-5 knots wind. Claes has all the sails up today………..that is, three of them which makes us a Ketch. We have DOUG working today and it is a beautiful gorgeous sunny day. November 20...