Going South

November 5

We left our anchorage in Turtle Bay for an overnighter to Bahia Santa Maria, a sheltered anchorage on the way to Cabo San Lucas.  Traveling at slower speeds to conserve fuel allowed us to do some more fishing.

Bigeye Tuna! (I think) Can you say Sashimi?

David and a few of his buddies.
Photo by Ian

November 6

We dropped out anchor in Bahia Santa Maria at 1115 after a 235 NM run, right in the middle of the Baja HaHa fleet.  It is an annual cruise of sailboats, as many as 140, from San Diego to Cabo San  Lucas.  We had thought that we would be ahead of them but information somehow got skewed so we were the weird boat without long poles with rags attached to them.
No worries. We would leave them in our wake in the morning.
Of course, since we have no long poles with rags, we need fuel.  We emptied our auxiliary fuel bladders into our tanks, cleaned the boat a bit and had a celebratory rum tasting before dinner and relaxing for the night.

Chef David works with fresh Tuna.

Crew takes a break.

Another beautiful sunset.

Before turning in I did some calculations and navigation and informed the crew we had enough fuel to do our normal 18 knot cruising speed to Cabo instead of another overnighter. Everyone was in favor of an early arrival so we set the alarm for 0300 and got underway at 0330.



November 7

Red sky in the morning is not necessarily an indicator of bad weather

David rounding the point towards Cabo.

Iconic Cabo rock.

We pulled into Marina Cabo San Lucas fuel dock at 1430, got a slip assignment and can't wait to leave.  A little touristy and loud for us. 

Till next time.......