Vanessa
11/19/2011, Santa Maria, MX (?)

Hi all,
I receiced a pleasant but unexpected call late this morning. My Dad and Leiann called via the HAM radio (they talked to a volunteer HAM radio operator and the volunteer called me to relay his messages). They are doing well, once again Leiann had issues with being sea sick. I thought that they had planned to get antinausea medicine in Turtle Bay, but perhaps they weren't able to find any....? I believe the operator stated that they had arrived in Santa Maria (please forgive me if this isn't correct, I need more Mexico geography lessons ;) ). They were able to find a nurse there who had an antinausea remedy for her to try. They send their love to everyone back home!! More to come later....

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Leiann/Sun, Rain, Sun, Rain
11/13/2011, Turtle Bay

Hola Amigos! Thanks Vanessa for updating our blog so others can keep up with us. I can barely keep up with us. We left Ensenada and from that point on I had no problems being sea sick. In fact if anyone out there needs to learn how to throw up I believe after 6 days of it I am an expert, and as some of you know I really don't believe in experts. I did however manage to do my watches on the night shift despite being ill. For those of you that don't know what a watch is the crew take turns sailing/motoring to the next destination. Depending on how many crew decides how many hours. My longest was about three hours because Dave was concerned about me throwing up over the side of the boat and being lost at sea! Not in his lifetime, he is stuck with me.......so finally we arrived in Turtle Bay along with our new found friends and spent the first day in beautiful sunny weather hanging on the beach at Rojellios Place. That's where we are now. Everyone brings snacks and we just hang out, go to the market, check out the small fishing village and try to speak Spanish to the locals. Life in this little village is so very different than our other life and it teaches you to slllooowwww down. Not a bad thing for any of us to learn. Take for instance the 1st day we tried to get money on our visa, no ATM, so we had to get it from the mercado or market. No big but we were told to come back manana (tomorrow for you gringos). Then we found Christy (and Neil) and they have immersed themselves into the community in a short two weeks. She said (by radio) to meet her at the market at 10:30 the next morning....we did and waited for an hour and we never saw her. The problem? We had changed time zones and we were on our own time clock! Finally after two more trips to the market we managed to get actual money in our hand. The next two days we stayed on the boat due to some inclement weather and today we are back at our spot on the beach hanging with the cruisers and doing what we want, when we want. Fish tacos later! Tamales tomorrow! Adios!

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Vanessa/ wind = 17 knots, swell height = 2
11/09/2011

:( I haven't been able to tune into the Seafarer's net to hear exactly how my Dad and Leiann are fairing. When they called on Nov. 7th they were leaving Ensenada and Leiann was establishing her sea legs (slightly motion sick). My Dad wanted me to say a hello to all friends and family tuned in, and for me to wish Jess a congratulations for him, since she is expecting her first baby at the end of December. I am new to reading the information provided on the Roll Call page of the Seafarer's Net, but to me it looks as if they are experiencing a decent amount of wind. I will provide an update tonight or tomorrow morning after they have checked in through the HAM radio.

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Dave
11/07/2011, same

Leaving Ensenada headed to Turtle Bay. Will post an update when we arrive and we will be out of contact for a few days until then. Leiann is sad to leave Ensenada but looking forward to more new places and more new people. Yesterday we met cruisers leaving for Turtle Bay and we are all heading out this morning. Stay tuned for further updates. Love to all!

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clear and fairly warm/Dave
11/03/2011, Mex

Hi to all. We had planned on leaving on Saturday but now am waiting for a cold front to move thru (high wind and sea's) predicted (we don't need anymore of those). So maybe head off to San Quentin Monday (no internet or cell there). We have been having a good time wandering around town (out side the tourist zone). I will post some new pix's in our album. Pictures not in the tourist brochure. Bye for know Dave and Leiann

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Getting warmer/ Dave
10/30/2011, Mexico!

High everybody. We have finally made it to Mexico! We had a pretty boring trip down from San diego. However this was probably good for Leiann's first off shore trip. We didn't even put a sail up as near zero wind the whole way. Leiann did her first "night watch" 2-4 am all by herself in the cockpit in the dark! Leiann is afraid of the dark so no light matter for her. She did great. Although she did use the sea sick pills even with little swell. Maybe next leg she will get a little more acclimated. We tried to leave at night from San Diego (11pm) so we would make it in before dark to a new port with questionable navigation lights. Well after motoring for 20hours we came in in the dark. We motor at 4knots with no adverse current. But we had north bound current nearly all the way so averaged 3knots. That's 3.6 MPH for you land lubbers. If your'e in a hurry wrong boat. We aren't so burning only a pint a hour is worth it. We ran into a lot of kelp coming in as we could not see it. But our trusty little 9 hp Yanmar chopped it up. We did have to back up a couple of times to clear kelp off the keel, as we would get down to 1.5 knots with the extra drag. We got tied up by 8 pm and had a nice walk around the grounds of the Hotel Coral. It's a classy joint, we feel a little under (boated) dressed, here. The next day we layed around the pool and sun bathed, swam, hot tubed, eat your hart out you Washingtonians! After that we we into town (on the hotel shuttle for free) plus a little tip. We walked all around town and had a nice day. Today we didn't even make it to town. We laid in bed and drank coffee reading our books til 11am, then went to the hot tubs as it was pretty cool today. Now we are headed back to the boat. Leiann is going to make some chicken salsa rice toco's. Latter from the little boat the could Chrysalis II

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