Category Archives: North Pacific

As Bernice goes on her 9-12 watch the boys look at getting the engines started. We are still 57 miles from Cabo San Lucas (44 miles to nearest landfall) and even if we succeed it’s likely we’ll only just make … Continue reading →

We’ve finally tacked and are heading back to land, which means the moon (and the sun later) is rising over the starboard side of the boat. Just after midday we are able to turn the engines off and continue to … Continue reading →

The rest of the night is pretty uneventful, the engine even seemed to behave itself for Huw. The fishing line of course went out at first light, which is now later as we travel north, at 0730 and by 1000 … Continue reading →

So with no consideration for how much hanging around we´re doing, unnecessary hanging around at that, we hang around some more, but agree only till we know the situation with the card… then we make a plan, which may be … Continue reading →

Towards the end of yesterday Richard decided the best thing for us to do looking at the weather now – its flat calm out there for 5-700nm to the west and north – is to motor on up to “Cabo … Continue reading →

We anticipated today would be a tough day, made more demanding by the fact that we also have the task of putting the boat back together again. We agree to an early start and are well under way by 0800, … Continue reading →

So we weren´t woken in the night as Beatriz did her stuff, we wake of our own accord around 0830 and even Richard isn’t up yet. Puzzled we check the hurricane weather site and find we should be in the … Continue reading →

A little apprehensive we start the day, wondering what the next few days will bring and hoping we have decided wisely to stay here in the lagoon to weather out the storm. First job is to more the boat, Richard … Continue reading →

As Bernice comes on watch at 0600 we are about 12nm from our way point so we are likely to arrive in the bay of Manzanillo sometime after 8am, it seems to take forever that last wee bit, with the … Continue reading →

A very hot reasonably flat day. Mismo – what wind there is, is on our nose, no surprise there then. Huw gets on with sorting out photo’s for the blog and other than engine checks and cat naps there’s nothing … Continue reading →