Susan, Sequoia, and Todd go sailing

I’ve taken the daily videos of our passage from Honolulu Hawaii to San Francisco in July 2010 and compiled it into a 14 minute clip. Susan wrote about our crossing from Hawaii to California here. Here’s the video:

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I’ve taken the daily videos of our sail from Frailes Mexico (in Baja) to Hilo Hawaii in May 2010 and compiled it into a 12 minute clip. Susan wrote about our crossing from Mexico to Hawaii here. Here’s the video:

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Susan and I agreed early on that it would be good to apply sarcasm and humor to our blog to make for more entertaining reading. Every sailor knows a yarn isn’t a yarn if you don’t take some liberties with the truth. Little did I realize the humor would largely be at my expense, but as First Mate Mischief Maker keeps the ship’s log, I should have seen it coming a minute of latitude away! So I decided to pick up my marlin-spike and do what any formerly hard-working executive turned Capn would do: I delegated to Susan the task of writing a witty rebuttal in my defense that would restore my good name and that I would then ultimately take credit for.
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Susan, Sequoia, Eric, and I are leaving now to head out to the uninhabited islands north of La Paz to do some exploring. We’re planning to be back in La Paz in 10 days on December 15th at which point Sequoia will be flying back to San Francisco (on the 18th) to visit her dad for two and a half weeks. At that point we should have internet and some limited phone access and look forward to catching up with everyone when we’re back! After these great days in La Paz Capn and Co-Capn Our Pockets are Lighter are ready to spend some time where they don’t take Visa or Mastercard.

Another quick note to let everyone know we arrived in La Paz this morning. For the first time in weeks we have great internet access again so we have some catching up to do in posting the various legs of the trip.

In short from Asuncion we stopped in Bahia Santa Maria for 3-5 days (none of us are sure how long we were there) which is just outside of Magdalena Bay and totally isolated with no town nearby. We swam, we read, we hung out with other boats passing through, explored the lagoon by dinghy, had a bonfire on the beach, etc… From there we sailed non-stop south rounding the cape and bypassing Cabo San Lucas going north to Frailes. We left Frailes yesterday morning riding north on a rare southerly and then hung out outside of the channel to La Paz until sunrise so we could see our way in. Since Ensenada we’ve been doing a lot less motoring putting many enjoyable hours on our asymmetrical spinnaker. More to come over the next few days on those legs of the trip!

I just wanted to write a quick post that we´re anchored in Asuncion and having a great time. The internet connectivity is too slow to really post any photos so we´ll do another post later about our trip down the coast so far. In short we´ve had good weather, light winds, and fair seas so it´s been a great trip but with quite a bit of motoring.

From here we´re moving on to Santa Maria and Bahia Magdalena so it´s possible we won´t have internet access for the next week to two weeks depending on how long we stay there. Hope everyone is well and look forward to reconnecting with folks once we have better connectivity!

I wanted to be able to include a satellite map to show our location when we write about where we are on the boat. So I’ve installed the Google Maps plugin for WordPress to make that easier. Here’s the satellite photo of our boat in her slip at Emery Cove Yacht Harbor. If you click the plus buttom to zoom in the bottom of the pin is on the outline of our hull.

Sugata at Emery Cove