tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670626463691722192024-03-19T04:51:52.246-07:00Sailing Adventures of Rebecca and CrewThe continuing adventures of Cyndi and Marcus. cyndimarcushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16713901019058025971noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267062646369172219.post-30617321200626433852014-05-01T12:43:00.002-07:002014-05-01T12:44:22.252-07:00"Cars" in La Cruz<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sold our hard sailing dink to this nice family. <br />
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Friend June from Shamaness tooling around in our new to us kayaks. A nice little bit of freedom!cyndimarcushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16713901019058025971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267062646369172219.post-62849295107514484072014-02-13T11:25:00.000-08:002014-02-13T11:25:12.471-08:00Whale!We have been seeing a lot of whales on our way to Banderas Bay, where Puerto Vallarta is located. However, it is not that easy to get a photo of these amazing creatures.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chacala can be a rolly anchorage so most people anchor bow and stern. Marcus putting out the stern anchor.</td></tr>
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The special was shrimp stuffed fish wrapped with bacon and covered with cheese. I couldn't quite figure out what this was supposed to be, maybe a lobster with olive eyes and shrimp tail? When the waiter cleared my plate he said, so you liked the "raton" it was fashioned to look like a mouse.<br />
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Greenpeace came to Mazatlan for a few days. We took a tour, amazing. Built specifically for Greenpeace at a cost of over $30 Million Dollars.</div>
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<br />cyndimarcushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16713901019058025971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267062646369172219.post-86475259803319264612014-02-13T10:17:00.000-08:002014-02-13T11:28:36.392-08:00100 year old Mexican Casa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Newlyweds Dennis and June on Shamanes stayed at a friends place for a few days and invited us for dinner. A beautiful 100 year old Mexican home, a very traditional home of the upper income Mexican family. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plenty of room for multiple chefs!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Main bathroom, the oversized shower had a tile mosaic of a parrot.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"> Mazatlan is one of our favorite cities here in Mexico. There is something for every mood, traditional mexican shopping, gringo get togethers, parks, beaches, town squares, cultural events, and great bus system for getting around.<br />
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Fred and Kathy on Sonrisa took me to town with them to do a little shopping.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shopping at the carneceria or butcher shop</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Verduras-Vegetables</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All these lovely vegetables for 53 pesos, about $4 </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We finally met up with Bay Area Shamanes again.</td></tr>
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cyndimarcushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16713901019058025971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267062646369172219.post-26108071007890464732014-01-06T14:14:00.001-08:002014-01-06T14:25:06.274-08:00So long San Carlos<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
12/28/13<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just up from the beach a lovely little apartment</td></tr>
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Left San Carlos around 10am in the
company of 3 other boats heading across the sea to Puerto Escondido,
or La Paz. An uneventful 24hour motorboat ride to Puerto Escondido,
stayed 2 days, then headed back across the sea to Mazatlan, 309
miles, should take 3 days. Took off around noon and started sailing
right away, the sea was pretty lumpy/rolly, but the forecast said it
should be smoothing out right about now. I thought I had my sea legs
under me, but I was wrong. The sea did not smooth out, the boat
would sail along for a bit with a little side to side roll, then
suddenly it would veer wildly through the waves. Pretty quickly we
had the few things not stowed properly tied down, but you could hear
cans in the bilge sliding back and forth, never heard that before!!
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I got sick. Not violently ill, but
pretty much useless, sleeping on and off for 24 hours. Poor Marcus
didn't get much in the way of relief at the helm. The good news was,
we sailed for 24 hours, the bad news was I still wasn't up to being
much help the second day either. In my already dark mood, this was
just not good. If I could have gotten off the boat I would have. UG
By the 3<sup>rd</sup> day I finally felt good again and started to
enjoy the trip. I'm sure being less than a day away from land and
one of my favorite cities may have had something to do with my
improved mood.</div>
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About 6pm the last day, we realized we
were going to arrive in Mazatlan around 2am, and we sure didn't want
to negotiate the narrow channel going into the marina at that hour.
We could anchor out at Isla Venados, or we could just drift for a few
hours. The sea was flat and calm with a just a breath of wind, so we
put up the gib (small sail in the front) and just ghosted along at 1
½ knots for four hours. About 2am we fired up the motor and headed
to Mazatlan, arriving as the sun came up. We pulled into a slip, and
went below for an early morning nap.</div>
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cyndimarcushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16713901019058025971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267062646369172219.post-82615398399130631422014-01-06T14:10:00.001-08:002014-01-06T14:19:52.943-08:00Last days in San Carlos<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
12/20/13</div>
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Closing in on our departure date, we
took Chuck and Judi out to a nice Italian place to show them how much
we appreciated their hospitality. It was wonderful food, the owner
was from Italy, so you know the food was authentic. Marcus chose the
best dish, a garlic mushroom spinach pasta that was delicious!</div>
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Soon the work we needed to do while the
boat was out of the water was complete and we put her back in the
water and took a slip for a couple of days. We moved out of our
friends house and onto the boat, it was good to be home.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pretty sunrises and beautiful views from friends lovely home</td></tr>
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Since it was so close to Christmas, I
suggested we have Christmas in San Carlos. We went to a Saturday
night Church service and sang Christmas carols. On Christmas day, we
went to the church again for more music, then to a cruisers Christmas
dinner. By then we had moved the boat to a mooring out in the Bahia
which was pretty nice, and was much less expensive than a slip in a
marina. The down side was that when the wind picked up in the
afternoon, the ride back to the boat was slow, wet, and
uncomfortable. We tried to always get back to the boat by 1pm! The
cruisers Christmas dinner didn't end till around 3pm and by the time
we got back to the boat we were both pretty wet puppies!</div>
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Wherever cruisers gather, there is a
morning net on the radio. Boaters in the area tune in to the VHF
radio at a specific time, in San Carlos it is 8am on channel 78.
Emergencies, people looking for rides, people heading the the US or
Canada that can mail letters for others, local information,
happenings, weather, sea conditions, things people want to sell or
buy, kind of a craigslist on the radio.</div>
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The wet dinghy ride inspired me anew to
find a little bigger, therefore dryer, dingy. One morning, we heard
of a dinghy for sale, and went over to look at it on our way to go
hiking. The seller was working on his boat and didn't want to show
it just then, so we continued our plan to go hiking, and would look
at in on our return. When we returned, he had sold it, bummer! The
next day, just before we were leaving San Carlos, Marcus announced
on the net that he had a solar charger controller available, and we
were looking for a dinghy. A guy named Mike, on Firefly (name of the
boat) responded that he needed a solar charger controller and would
trade a dinghy he had for it. That was a good deal for us!! It did
need some gluing, which he would do, but it wouldn't be ready for
maybe a week. Lucky us, another friend agreed to bring the dinghy
down to us in Puerto Vallarta in about 2 weeks. You need to be pretty
self reliant cruising on a boat, so other cruisers are always ready
to lend a hand when one is needed. It is an awesome network of
friends, some of whom you have yet to meet!</div>
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12/16/13</div>
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From others viewpoint, this lifestyle
may appear paradise, and sometimes it is, but is not all moonlight, margaritas,
and mariachis. Ours is a simpler life, but it takes more effort to
get things done. I love it, but sometimes I get tired. We have
always know that we would not be “forever” cruisers, after a few
years, I want to settle down in a land house close to my family.
Leaving family and friends is probably the toughest part for me, with
a close second of not being settled in one place for very long.
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When Marcus hurt his back, and it
looked like we may not be able to take the boat out, I started to
think. He hates it when I do that, because you never know what kind
of ideas might start germinating, sometimes they are sheer genius (in
my humble opinion) sometimes they are ravings of a lunatic. What if
we just stay here and rent a house for the winter . . .hmmm what kind
of house/apartment can we rent here and what will it cost? This is
not a new idea, but it was gaining ground with our potential setback.
We looked at a couple of places, two of them looked right over the
bahia where all the sailboats were anchored out. AHHH it was so
wonderful! Upscale gringo community and small, but nice and about
$800 per month. This is a little expensive in Mexico, and for us,
but as in real estate everywhere, location location location.
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Now I am really thinking hard about
just renting a place and staying for the winter, but Marcus is now
recovering, so we make plans to head out. I'm feeling down, just not
up for the challenges ahead. One of the up sides of cruising is
meeting new friends, on the other hand, you may leave right after you
start getting to know them. I get moody, and neither Marcus nor I
like living with me very much. It will pass, and the sun will shine
again.</div>
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Considering the boat had been on the
hard in the Sonoran desert for 6 months she looked pretty good! For 2
weeks we sanded, scraped, painted the hull. The lines were run, the
dodger reinstalled, through-hulls checked, and systems checked. We
had brought a gallon of the bottom paint, which was had been just
enough to paint the bottom last time. We barely had enough for ½ of
the hull this time! Even though while scraping and painting it felt
like the boat had grown longer, we knew she hadn't. Our theory is
that the hull dried out during the Sonoran summer. Marcus was
heading to town, had to bite the bullet and spend big bucks for
additional paint from the very expensive chandlery when Marcus had an
idea. He asked the boatyard worker if they had some left over paint
we could purchase. Happy day! They had just the right paint at just
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San Carlos bound! After a short 2 hour
trip we pulled into a San Carlos gas station, Marcus got out of the
car and he could hardly walk. Shortly before we arrived in San Carlos
Marcus sneezed and felt a shooting pain in his lower back, He has
had back trouble for years, and hours sitting in a car it not good
for him. This was something much more severe than he had experienced
before. We drove another 10 minutes and arrived at our friend Chuck
and Judi's house. Thank goodness for Chuck and Judi! If not for
their hospitality, we would have had to rent a room because there was
no way Marcus could climb up and down the ladder into the boat while
we readied it for our trip, if we even were able to go, considering
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back, hobbling around the best he could. He took hot baths, got a
massage and treatment with an electronic neuro muscular stimulator.
He slowly improved and after a week, he had improved enough to start
work on the boat. Seriously thought we might just be spending the
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cyndimarcushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16713901019058025971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267062646369172219.post-51724076299108705952014-01-05T06:42:00.000-08:002014-01-06T13:49:37.579-08:00Regreso Aqui - Return HereI'm catching up on our trip to date, so I'll try to catch up in the next week or so!<br />
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After spending an amazing summer
exploring the US and visiting family and friends we settled in
California to wait for our new grandson to be born. Family
challenges kept us in the states until just a few days before
Thanksgiving, so we decided to enjoy that with our girls and their
families and we headed South the Friday after Thanksgiving.</div>
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We dropped our 5<sup>th</sup> wheel and
truck off at a storage facility, and headed straight for Marcus's
childhood hometown to spend a couple of nights with his best buddy
Bill and wife Gloria. After 2 fun days, we headed to Newport Beach
and spent the night hanging out with our Mexico cruising friends on a
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From there it was Tucson to spend the
night, and pick up a few last minute things. It took us much longer
in Tucson to find what we needed and I tried to convince Marcus to
spend one more night there, but he was too excited about getting back
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I admit, while in the States, I became
completely addicted to my smart phone. The ability to map, research,
email and facebook anytime I wanted was just what this internet
addict craved. Not that it was good for me, Marcus had a difficult
time convincing me to look up from the screen during our travels. I
suffered MAJOR withdrawals as soon as I was unplugged.
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We had some trouble locating a hotel,
finding ourselves at the back side of one the the recommended hotels
I had researched I saw some “ladies” lounging on street corners,
and we quickly decided to head back to a place we had seen on the
main road through town. It was getting late, and we sure didn't want
to be out after dark in an unknown city. As dusk arrived we finally
checked into a place right on the main street of town. The lobby
looked nicer than the rooms, but still it was pretty nice by Mexico
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We went out wandering to look for some
dinner. There were a few gringo type places nearby, but we tend to
like the little places, the street vendors and mom and pop places. I
saw an interesting place just back from the street past an OXXO (like
a Mexican 7-11), we met Carlos, the owner and set us up with some
yummy tostadas. The beans are always so good in Mexico, YUM. Marcus
asked for a beer, and I wanted water, Carlos said they didn't serve
beer, but he would get him some. In little places like this they
usually serve the beer in a bottle, but Marcus received his beer in a
cup. The proprietor said it was beer from the cooks. Coors lite,
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Rebecca "on the hard" waiting for next season</div>
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Planing on buying an RV and traveling around the US.</div>
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Went by earlier in the day and pre ordered our clams, Juan Carlo goes out fishing/clamming and then the family serves up "catch of the day" literally.</div>
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but I thought it would be a mass of people and not much fun. Not
nearly as many people as I thought, and it was great fun. Bands,
food, a few seminars and just generally meeting up with friends you
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One night they had
a band consisting of local kids that sang and played great oldie
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We took a hike at Aqua Verde over the hill and then back along the beach. Really beautiful rock formations.</div>
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Agua Verde is a picturesque spot
that Marcus has been looking forward to the entire trip. It was
beautiful as always, however the water was colder than I remember it
and we didn't feel up to snorkeling, ah well. We were lucky enough
to cross paths with Pam and Eric on Pie de Mar again, and we went for
a long hike. Marcus and Eric drug us along the shore on the return
trip and I was sure we were going to get caught at high tide and not
be able to get back to the boat. Should just trust Marcus, he and
Eric were right, we made it back to the beach with no problems.</div>
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The village seems
improved over last time. Still dirt streets, but it seemed the
individual houses and lots were better marked and the dirt was raked.
We also saw evidence of habitat for humanity in the numerous cinder
block homes. Only one of the 3 tiendas had evidence of
refrigeration, ice kept the few drinks available cold at the others.</div>
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There are still
cows wandering around, a couple of piglets and a heard of dairy goats
came through, apparently tended only by a dog. We purchased some
goat cheese and it was EXCELLENT. Sure wish I could get that at
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Last night at Agua
Verde there were some signifigant swells coming through the
anchorage, so we considered moving to a corner of the anchorage that
would have additional protection. We have a manual windlass instead
of electric so it is a bit of work to get the anchor up and
re-anchor. Deciding the swell would subside shortly, we elected to
stay put. What a mistake!! Rolling and pitching all night long, we
were so tired the next morning! Did I mention the first thing on the
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<b>San Gabriel to Everisto</b></div>
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Winds out of the Southwest were no fun
a this anchorage! High winds, 22-28 knots, which led to high wind
waves made for an uncomfortable night. Early the next morning the
boat was continuing to pitch or hobbyhorse, with the bow rising up
and crashing down into the waves, this while still at anchor. As
Marcus came up into the cockpit, he realized we had drug anchor and
were MUCH closer to shore than we had been, much closer than was
safe. At the same time as he was turning on the depth sounder a
neighboring boat sped over in his dinghy to see if we were ok.
Marcus told him we were preparing to leave and everything went into
warp speed as the pitching of the boat led to a slight bounce off of
the bottom, then a bigger bounce, yikes!! Time to go, started the
engine, and I motored slowly forward, trying to keep us off the
bottom, while Marcus quickly pulled up the anchor. I can tell you
that was a rude awakening!!</div>
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We were a little disquieted as this was
the first time we had drug anchor; we are pretty careful about
anchoring. The anchor is designed to dig in deeper as the boat is
pushed back by the wind. Marcus found some scarring on the anchor
chain and surmised that with the wind shifting and the boat bouncing
the anchor drug a little then a rock caused the anchor to skip over
the sand and lose it's hold.</div>
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Since we were already up and on our
way, we headed North towards Isla San Francisco (NOT in California)
taking advantage of the wind that was going our way. We had a nice
sail and as the wind weakened we put up our spinnaker for the first
time. The spinnaker is a big pretty balloon like sail made out of
very light material to be used in light winds. Ours is for a smaller
boat than ours, but still worked pretty well, coasting along at 3
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When we came close to Isla San Franciso
it was still early in the day, so we headed on to San Everisto where
we knew we would be protected form pretty much all points of wind.
We needed a good night's sleep!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our boat anchored at Everisto, lovely protected bay</td></tr>
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After a quick shopping trip to stock up
on veggies, we took the long slow ride back out of La Paz. Again
attempting to experience a few different anchorages, we chose to
anchor at San Gabriel. A windstorm called a coromuel kicked up
during the night which made for a sleep deprived night. Next morning
we awoke groggy and were very surprised to find we had drug anchor
early that morning. Marcus was checking the depthsounder and said we
were ok as we were in 15 feet of water. Within moments I felt a
little “bump” and as I was asking if that was us hitting the
bottom, we both felt a stronger bump. Oh yes we were no longer in 15
feet of water and with the hobbyhorse effect the waves had on the
boat, we were bouncing on the bottom.
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I'm pretty sure we set a record in
firing up the boat and pulling up the anchor. With that narrow
escape, we headed North on a nice breeze.</div>
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Long slow enterance to LaPaz made easy
with a cruisers guidebook that has waypoints every step of the way,
so the dogleg path is well marked, but backup is the waypoints so you
don't accidently miss one!</div>
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Stopped at the fuel dock, and made
radio contact with friends on Gone Nuts, whom we met in San Diego
seems like an age ago. We were looking for Mark and Lea on Catalpa
who left a month after we did from our home port of Isleton. Even
though they knew we were headed their way, it was still a great
surprise for them and we celebrated with dinner and Margaritas. It
is really hard to explain how cool it was to see them again, I guess
it has something to do with the actual leaving on a trip. Planning
is one thing, but the actual departure is a powerful event.
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