Heading Home
Wednesday, February 18th – The anchorage at La Cruz is expansive and filled with more boats at anchor than we have ever seen. After anchoring, we spend the afternoon rec [...]
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Stuck!
Tuesday, February 17th – Bahia de Chamela is the first really good anchorage one reaches after leaving Puerto Vallarta, rounding Cabo Corrientes and heading south along the Me [...]
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Gold Coast Cruising
It’s a small world, or so it can be at times. Sitting on deck while anchored in Bahia de Manzanillo, a dingy motors over to our boat. Greg Baillie from Lion’s Paw could not pa [...]
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AVANTE Hard Aground!
It was mentioned when we were rounding the headlands off Punta Mita that the navigation charts for Mexican waters leave a lot to be desired. Both The Captain and The First Mat [...]
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Broaden Your Horizons
We all remember sayings and admirable quotes that we heard and eventually learned in childhood. In fact, many of these quotes were so ingrained in us that we turned around and [...]
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Manzanillo — A Most Romantic Spot
Thursday, February 5th – We leave Ipala for the last stretch to Manzanillo. Jazzed by his big catch of yesterday and undeterred by its poor taste, The Fisherman Captain wants [...]
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Bigeye Tuna?
Our 4 days in Puerto Vallarta, or more specifically in Paradise Village Marina in Nuevo Vallarta, are not all spent fine-tuning The Formula. For one thing, we are running out [...]
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A Formula For Cruising – negotiated
The Captain may call himself a businessman, but he was first trained as an engineer. Engineers deal in facts, real time definitions and concrete formulas. Suggestions have no [...]