Southern waters

Added 2016-12-16 16:45:31 +0000 UTC

After staying in Ensenada for a month, we were eager to leave. Pushing off the dock is both stressful and exciting. This trip was going to be a long one, the kindle had new books to read and our phones were filled with podcasts (see below for list of books and podcasts).

After looking at the weather, we could see something brewing up north of us. The coastline around Point Conception and downward was dark shades of orange and red. This meant that great big swells were coming. It didn't take long for them to reach us, Pino surfed up and down 10ft swells like a champ. The motion from inside the cabin was too uncomfortable, we opted to make minimalist one-pot meals to spend as little time as possible down there.

The swells and wind died down after 2 days. We went to anchor in Bahia Tortugas to wait, the wind forecast for the next day was better.

The rest of the voyage was plenty windy, the seams in our mainsail came apart and we had to fix it underway. We learned then that our sail repair gear was inadequate. Devine was straddling the boom like a bull-rider, mending our maimed main with needle and thread in hand for 3 hours. We were able to raise our frankenstein mainsail again after rounding Cabo San Lucas. Going back up the inside of the coast was most unpleasant, we motored against wind and current for two days.

Pino sailed around 900 nm to get to La Paz.

Really crazy to think we made it here, we shot some fantastic footage and can't wait to share it with you.

Best,
Rekka & Devine

Kindle books:

Box wine sailors by Amy McCullough
Seraffyn's oriental voyage by Lin Pardey
The self-sufficient sailor by Lin and Larry Pardey
Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom

Podcasts:

Love & Radio
Lexicon Valley
Alan Watts talks