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Cabo San Lucus – More Than a Headache
Dingy rides are awesome. Dingy rides are slow when overloading the dingy. Arriving in Cabo San Lucus was reliving in that Panache had conquered the Baja Ha Ha without motoring one foot, but...
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Slow Roll to La Paz – Part One: Los Frailes
After over stretching my budgets in Cabo, it was finally time to pick up the hook, fill the tanks, and harbor hop to La Paz. The sail to La Paz was only 142 miles, but to avoid sailing at night and...
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Slow Roll to La Paz – Part Two: Ensanida de Los Muertos
Tearing through Ceralvo Channel. Rising from the v-berth brought a tired yet strengthened feeling in my bones - this was the aftereffects of hiking the day before. After a tall cup of Starbucks poured...
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Escape from La Paz – An Island Adventure
If you sit long enough anywhere, moss will start to grow. Moss is not necessarily a bad thing, but this phenomenon was happening, green clumps of moss were growing, and the whole thing started to make...
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JAWS in La Paz
Whale sharks are probably one of the coolest things with fins, and honestly, one of my main I kicked around the Sea of Cortez for so long. In some cases whale sharks span more than 30 feet, but...
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Storming to Mazatlan
Making the crossing from La Paz to mainland Mexico isn't exactly demanding, IF you wait for a good weather. Thats a big if. Crossing the street can be demanding with enough wind and rain. The coming...
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When I say Boobies, I Mean the Bird.
Mazatlan. I was tired, Panache was anchored next to a sewage treatment facility, and the one restaurant I ate at didn't impress me. Maybe I was judging Mazatlan a little too early, but it was over....
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Bumming Banderas Bay
Banderas Bay, La Cruz Huanacaxtle, was my home for a little over a month. Well, technically Panache was still my home, but La Cruz was my home port for a month. Panache stayed anchored out in the...
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To Chiapas, and Beyond!
****This is an old post, but a necessary one. Sorry for the late update**** Chiapas represented two things for Panache; the last stop in Mexico before crossing into El Salvador (I decided to skip...
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Sailing the “Happy Coast” with Dad
If you were to make a graph, where age is the x-axis and parent/child animosity is the y-axis, you would get the most perfect bell curve a TI-86 calculator could produce. Everyone’s bell curve is a...
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