Sailing on Starshine
| Vessel Name: | Starshine |
| Vessel Make/Model: | Outbound 44 |
| Hailing Port: | San Francisco, CA |
| Crew: | Pat and Melodie Williams |
| About: | We have been "working the plan" since 2004 when Pat began taking sailing lessons. That lead to a few sailing vacations on sailboats. Melodie took some classes too. We purchased our boat in 2011. |
27 February 2019 | Alameda California
26 February 2019 | Mazatlan to San Francisco
26 February 2019 | Mazatlan Sinaloa Mexico
01 May 2018 | El Cid - Mazatlan
09 April 2018 | Marina Mazatlan
07 March 2018 | La Cruz de Huanacaxtle
23 January 2018 | La Cruz de Huanacaxtle
04 December 2017 | La Cruz de Huanacaxtle
24 October 2017 | Oakland, CA
04 September 2017 | South Lake Tahoe CA
04 September 2017 | Culver OR
04 September 2017 | Culver OR
04 September 2017 | Redmond Oregon
17 July 2017 | Polson Montana
31 May 2017 | Our new Camper in Ira Texas
04 May 2017 | Nuevo Vallarta, Riviera Nayarit Mexico
04 April 2017 | La Cruz Anchorage
12 March 2017 | Chamela Bay
12 March 2017 | Tenicatita Bay
18 February 2017 | La Cruz de Huanacaxtle
Recent Blog Posts
27 February 2019 | Alameda California
Goodbye Starshine
Melodie and I have accepted an offer on Starshine. We close escrow on March 8, 2019.
26 February 2019 | Mazatlan to San Francisco
The Baja Bash
Preparing for the Baja Bash (the trip north from Mexico to California). They call it “The Bash” because the prevailing winds and waves are from the northwest. So you are basically going uphill (if that makes any sense).
26 February 2019 | Mazatlan Sinaloa Mexico
Summer 2018
As many of you who have followed our blog over the last four years you’ll note that I have not given it any attention since last spring. So let me fill in the blanks.
Tenicatita Bay
26 January 2015 | Tenicatita Bay
Pat
We left Chamela on Saturday 1-24-15 to make our way to Tenicatita Bay, about 28 NM. There are two places to stop on the way, Paraiso and Careyes. They are both small anchorages. We heard 3 other boats had already anchored in Paraiso before we got there. We heard one boat give up trying to get their anchor set in Paraiso. We chose to continue on to Tenicatita Bay.
I tried my hand at fishing again, hoping to catch a nice Dorado. Our friends on Agave Azul said they catch about 5 Skipjack tuna for every Dorado they land. I decided to try these numbers. Using a “Mexican Flag” lure (looks like a squid with red/green/white feathers) I caught 5 Skipjacks and released them. I switched to a cedar plug (plain wood that looks like a cigar). I caught three more Skipjacks before we arrived in Tenicatita. So much for playing the numbers. It’s not that you can’t eat Skipjack, it’s just not as good as Dorado.
We arrived in Tenicatita about 1530 hours and found quite a few boats in the anchorage. Melodie and I visited Tenicatita by land back in 2007. Melodie and I had won a silent charity auction from Redwood Day School. Our niece Page was a student there back then. We spent a week in a vacation home in the small town of La Manzanilla, which is on the south end of Tenicatita Bay.
Our friends on Diamond Girl arrived shortly after us. They asked us if we’d had any bug problems. We said no, but we’d only arrived 2 hours before them. We missed the hit about bugs, so when the sun went down we were attached by a swarm of mosquitos. It had us scrambling for our bug screens. The first thing on the “to do” list Sunday was to install the metal insect screens on our port lights. We also dug out the more permanent hatch screens for the large hatches and the companionway.
The photo is a selfie of us here in Tenicatita. People had commented we weren’t posting enough photos of us, only landscapes.
We’ll be in Tenicatita for a week or so before moving to Barra De Navidad. The Super Bowl may play into our scheduling.
I tried my hand at fishing again, hoping to catch a nice Dorado. Our friends on Agave Azul said they catch about 5 Skipjack tuna for every Dorado they land. I decided to try these numbers. Using a “Mexican Flag” lure (looks like a squid with red/green/white feathers) I caught 5 Skipjacks and released them. I switched to a cedar plug (plain wood that looks like a cigar). I caught three more Skipjacks before we arrived in Tenicatita. So much for playing the numbers. It’s not that you can’t eat Skipjack, it’s just not as good as Dorado.
We arrived in Tenicatita about 1530 hours and found quite a few boats in the anchorage. Melodie and I visited Tenicatita by land back in 2007. Melodie and I had won a silent charity auction from Redwood Day School. Our niece Page was a student there back then. We spent a week in a vacation home in the small town of La Manzanilla, which is on the south end of Tenicatita Bay.
Our friends on Diamond Girl arrived shortly after us. They asked us if we’d had any bug problems. We said no, but we’d only arrived 2 hours before them. We missed the hit about bugs, so when the sun went down we were attached by a swarm of mosquitos. It had us scrambling for our bug screens. The first thing on the “to do” list Sunday was to install the metal insect screens on our port lights. We also dug out the more permanent hatch screens for the large hatches and the companionway.
The photo is a selfie of us here in Tenicatita. People had commented we weren’t posting enough photos of us, only landscapes.
We’ll be in Tenicatita for a week or so before moving to Barra De Navidad. The Super Bowl may play into our scheduling.
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