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York River Yacht Haven Marina, Gloucester Point, Virginia Header photo by Julie Mollica, thanks! Our last blog, Bashing It! describing our Baja cruise north to San Diego to sell Epoch was posted from San Diego, CA 238 days ago, on February 8, more than half a year has passed. What a year it has been! …
Header photo by Theresa, thanks! Bash, a verb (strike hard) or a noun (a bash on the head or birthday bash). Or the term I kept hearing about, the Baja Bash. My study of the Baja Bash revealed that it is a West Coast phenomenon, usually left to paid delivery captains or unfortunate cruisers who …
Saturday, June 1, 2019 was the day we began our Alaska bound trip! One of our dream trips, bucket list item, a promise made long, long ago. It is now December and the trip is only wonderful memories, but I thought I’d share some of our adventures, photos and the fun people we met along …
Epoch docked in Puerto Los Cabos Our cruise from Magdalena Bay to San Jose del Cabo, Puerto Los Cabos was another overnight cruise down the last part of the Baja. We traveled with four of our Taco Runners, Igloo, Audrea May, Red Rover, Partida and Pairadice, a Selene MV we met in Magdalena Bay. Our …
Ensenada at the head of Bahia de Todos Santos is a Port of Entry into Mexican waters and is about 65 n.m. from San Diego. Marina Coral greeted the Taco Runners with a banner and provided convenient International Arrival or Entrada Internacional at a small location near the marina. They presented a streamlined clearance process …
Turtle Bay residents helping with our dinghy. Turtle Bay is the halfway point on the Baja between Ensenada and Cabo San Lucas. The bay is huge and can safety anchor a couple hundred boats in 20 to 30 feet. We Taco Runners are sharing the bay with the Baja Ha Ha rally flotilla, a group …
Continue reading Turtle Bay is halfway! A lesson in ‘Industrious!’
Marina del Rey; heading out to meet Al in Venice BeachAlison, Kevin, me and Scott Traveling the coast of California has been awesome. The cruise to Marina Del Rey was a “short” day cruise from Channel Island where we stayed close to shore. We were traveling with Red Rover N55, Alison and Kevin Jeffries and …
Continue reading That would have made a great video! POOM, POOM, POOM!!
Epoch N4717 You live on a BOAT? Can you walk around on the boat? How do you cook? Is sleeping on the boat a challenge? How do you find your way? Are you cold? Is it like a cruise ship? Like on the ocean? Some of our family and friends have been to the boat, …
Continue reading My [Mom, daughter, sister, Nan] lives on a boat. What??
250 n.m. south of Turtle bay is Magdalena Bay. We anchored in Man of War Cove for a few days rest and to wait out a predicted tropical weather depression, later named Raymond. Magdalena Bay is huge, 25 miles NW to SE and 13 miles E-W. The bay is rimmed by 2 elongated islands, Isla …
Isla Cedros Here we are on the Pacific Ocean 28oN, 55oW anchored on the east side of Isla Cedros, a big volcanic rock of an island (21 miles long) in Mexico. We are traveling as the Nordhavn Taco Runners with Alison and Kevin on Red Rover N55, Lisa and Alec on Audrey Mae N57, Jeff …
The Adventures of Little Fish 