S/V Trim: SailBlogs

Round the Cabo at San Lucas

Ken/Sunny/Water 82 Degrees F — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:11:57 -0600

The Crew of Trim is living and eating as good as it gets. Yesterday morning we decided to go snorkeling and spear fishing in Bahia Santa Maria. The fishing conditions just outside the bay along the rocks was a dream to behold by a diver. Fish of every color and size ...millions of them. In a 30 minute period I hit several Pompano's for tacos while Dave and Lee brought up 8 lobster! (Continued...)

Calm after the storm

Ken/Beautiful and Sunny Water 75 degrees F — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:57:03 -0500

The second leg consisted of 35 hours of spectacular sailing conditions with 15 knots on our aft quarter nearly the entire trip and lots of fish action. The crew had the boat prepared for an early departure from Turtle Bay on Saturday morning and our repairs to the boom seemed to be working quite well for us. Right from the very start, the sailing was some of the best I've ever experienced making 8.5 knots towards Bahia Santa Maria some 240 miles down range. (Continued...)

Baja Mexico Remote Posts

Ken — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:36:09 -0500

The first leg of the HaHa was extreme to say the least. 193 vessels left San Diego heading south with the knowledge that a big wind event was coming down from the north bringing with it 16-18 ft seas and gusts over 30 knots. Well, we got it and more. The sea state built to over 15 ft by Thursday and the wind to over 30 knots sustained. the challenge was the period of the seas and the overall confused condition. Most of the fleet didn't make it to Turtle bay till last night. We made it Thursday afternoon with a broken boom that resulted from an accidental jib coming down the face of a 20ft swell. The main came across and blew the goose neck to pieces. We were able to keep the main flying, however we were not able to reef if needed which was hugely stressful through the long dark night with giant waves overtaking us and cause bursts of wind to 40 knots that would knock us nearly on our side as the wave passed under us. (Continued...)