SDiego/Mexico

[TJim]

Well, here we go again.  Took 3 days off here in Santa Barbara to regroup my body and mind.  Also fired the crew and sent him back to momma.  So I'll be looking for crew around the first of the month from SDiego to Maz.  This time, they gotta be over 40 with some sailing experience, and the ability to enjoy the peace and quite
while enjoying the music and the wind in the rigging.  Laid back but ready for action if necessary, male or female.  Hitting the fuel dock at 7am and then heading out cove hoping to SDiego where I hope to fly home for Thanks Giving and some
time with grandkids and family.  Adios...TJim

[Captain Smollett]

Thanks for the update.  Here's wishing you fair winds as you work your way S.

[AdriftAtSea]

TJim-

Sounds like a good break... keep us posted. :)

[Sloopy]

Hi,
Guess we're both planning the same thing. I'm planning on leaving San Diego in next several weeks for points south ending up in Puerto Vallarta. My boat, a Cape Dory 25', has been completely refurbished and ready to go. I know she can make it as she was sailed from Seattle to Alaska then to San Diego where I bought her in 2002. Since then, we've completely refitted her. I'm retired (although keeping my hand in real estate every so often) and have been planning this trip for several years. Usually I have her in a slip in Chula Vista but she's home now getting a few last items installed. Plans are to re-launch her and take a few shakedown days in San Diego Bay and then head for Ensenada, San Quintin, Turtle Bay, Mag Bay, Cabo San Lucas, possibly La Paz but eventually over to Mazatlan, then to San Blas, Punta de Mita, Nuevo Vallarta, La Cruz and finally Puerto Vallarta. Quite a voyage for me as although I've been sailing since '89 (when I got hooked on it) have not had that many offshore voyages (Santa Catalina on a 28' Lancer, coastal with a Hunter 30' and a Hunter 376, also the Coronado Islands with my Cape Dory 25'). The housing dip really messed up plans but it's time (now or never, as they say) to continue on. Eventually, we hope to build our new home in PV and lease our present home here in So. Cal. Keep us posted on your progress. Would be great to buddy boat south with you but have no idea where you are right now.
Fair winds.....
Sloopy

[Delezynski]

Sloopy,

On your way to PV, DON'T pass up the Sea of Cortez! It's a GREAT place to cruise!

Greg

[Soundbounder]

I am jealous!!!
Make the most of it.
Be safe, and enjoy.
Merry Christmas.

[c-hag]

i would soooo love to be there but i am stranded in st thomas awaiting assistance to get out of here to go home to san diego-----if you kno wof anyone who is able to assist, please have them call me at my fone---619-865-7409......i donot know where or how i will be able to get out of this mess --i was promised a month of vacation with pick up and return---am now dumped with no way of gettin ganywhere for the moment......karen

[hearsejr]

 hay Karen, I tried to ask some friends if they could swing your way but the are way too far away.  please keep your chin up.


Bill

[TJim]

Well guys, I guess it's time for an up-date.... Left SDiego on the 13th and sailed to Esenada for check in... spent two days there and sailed to San Quinton.  layed over a day and then went on in to Bahia Tortuga.  In Tortuga there were a couple Ketches (40-50') hung up with mechanical/electrical problems so my first mate got a little work getting them ready to go again.  Anyway we like the place and spent a couple weeks there.  And ran into a small world thing.  One of the ketch skippers had heard me say something about Puerto Rico and it turned out that he and his sister had gone to school with my kids down there.  His sister had worked with my daughter putting on 17 performances of Jesus Christ Super Star all over the island. Got her hooked up with a phone call to my daughter and they treaded emails..... From there we went on down to Cabo where I spent 4 days and a grand..... I actually kn ew better than to make that stop but I caved in to crew...... I now have the boat in La Paz and just came home to SLC yesterday... gonna spend some time doing taxes and with my lawyer on a law suit and then I'll be going back 2 weeks from yesterday.  The fishing was great but the eating couldn 't keep up.  For the most part it was a wet ride in my Triton.  Most of that has been solved but still got a couple things to take care of....  It's amazing how a dry boat can become a wet boat with a bit of time in fairly heavy weather.... Just a little bit you'd never even realize you had day sailing in the bay can keep you walking on a wet saloon floor..... Some of these leaks are really hard to find, specially the ones between the hull and the liner.    Another thing, my Triton just seems to get smaller and smaller, the more time I spend on her.  It seems like I'm always the smallest boat in the anchorage.... Jim