Sail the sea with The Merry Lee

Hola Amigos,

We are still catching up on Blogs. The vast part of yesterday was spent renting a car, driving to Cabo San Lucas, going to the wrong Avenue September 16th to find a tiny washer for our leaking toilet. We guess we will never complain about UPS charges again. We are thinking about going to Bahia Los Frailes about 28 miles north. It has the only hard coral reef in the Sea of Cortez. From there we probably will stop at Ensenada de los Mueertos which is another 46 miles north. Now to complete our Hipolito to Cabo Blog.

Except for some notable examples, four letter words don't give you much information. You can make a trip to the store for some milk or you can make a trip to the moon. Same word but a whole lot of miles difference. A journey implies a longer trip of several days but it probably will involve some stops. A Pilgrimage obviously has religious connotations. An expedition conjures up a lot of logistics.
"To make a passage" brings up visions of crossing a significant body of water. A passage maker is capable of crossing oceans. "Solo circumnavigator" has lots of letters and lets you know exactly what that person is doing.
Passage making also implies overnighters. You can't stop at a Motel 6 during a passage. It is just not done. If you have overnighters, then you have night watch. There are as many night watch schedules as there are boats. That is a slight exaggeration but that is what hyperbole is all about. When we have 3 on board we do three 4 hour watches. When we have only 2 then we try 2-2-4-4 or 2-4-4-2.
It may be difficult to believe but a night watch can be the highlight of your day. You are up in the cockpit ( using your life jacket/harness to tether yourself to the boat) all alone. It is just you and this incredible night time canopy of stars. You get to watch the Big Dipper rise and then identify the North Star. You try to guess which bright light is a planet. Shooting stars are the best because we know how to identify those.

Happy Night Trails to you until we Blog again,

The Merry Lee