I’m still here! It’s just that I’ve been too busy to catch up on blog posts, but I haven’t abandoned it! More to come later. Once the new auxiliary fuel tank was finished, I loaded up the Land Yacht to take new gear to the boat. And of course, to return an equal volume of […]
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Summer Seems To Have Ended
Hanging out at Base Camp Still waiting for the new auxiliary fuel tank to be finished so I can load up the land yacht and head for Puerto Peñasco, where s/v Wild has been in dry storage to wait-out hurricane season. This blog is starting in the middle, more or less, so I’ll try to […]
2025 Leg 3: Interlude in and near La Paz
I had a few missions to accomplish in La Paz. Stocking up on fuel and provisions was only the first step. The transmission on s/v Wild had been acting up and I wanted to get a mechanic to look at it. The hydraulic backstay adjuster had also leaked fluid during summer storage and probably needed […]
2025 Leg 2: Puerto Escondido to La Paz
Continuing our recap, s/v Wild headed south on December 17 (still 2024). It was a bit slow sailing until we got out past “The Candlesticks” islands (in the distance in the pic above) but then we picked up a bit of off-shore breeze and scooted on down about 25 nautical miles to Agua Verde. This […]
2025 Leg 1: San Carlos to Puerto Escondido
Well, we didn’t immediately leave San Carlos. There were shakedown cruises to be taken, gear to be calibrated, provisions to procure, cargo to stow. And it turned out that the dinghy and its motor came out of summer storage a little the worse for it. Parts had to be sent away for. So we swung […]
2025 Leg 0: Oregon to Sonora, Overland
The Season actually started in October 2024, with s/v Wild on the hard at Marina Seca San Carlos, in Sonora, Mexico, where it had been stored for hurricane season, and me in Oregon. There was quite a lot of new gear for Wild this year, most notably a new suit of sails! So I decided […]