Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Ensenada to La Paz, April 10, 2013

 It's been 4 days, waiting for the winds and swells to die down so we can head south. Our good friend Kenny came down from San Diego to make the passage with us, and has been giving good advice and helpful tips along the way. Our major projects taken care of, we feel like we're ready to go!
 Our friends from B dock at Cruiseport came down to cast us off, and at 11:15, we motored out of Ensenada. Around 1:15 the winds came up, and with a 6 ft. following sea, we we're sailing beautifully.
 As we got into deeper water, the depthsounder began to malfunction....... we've seen it before, but this time it really stopped working. Going through the menus to try and reset something, and, magic; it's working again. The wind and swells are increasing to 6-10 ft. and probably 20-25 knots, so we put a reef in the main, and partially furled the genoa, and we still reached 10.5 knots! The wind lasted through the night, it was cold, and we all stood our watches, shortly after 0830 we could make out the coastline for our first anchorage; Bahia San Quintin.

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