The photo above shows S/V Ubiquity sandwiched between leviathans at the Puerto Los Cabos Marina, San Jose del Cabo. The leviathans include not only the much larger sailboats surrounding her, but also the huge motor yachts in the distance.

The supersize-me American society has inflated the size of cruising sailboats, often about thirty feet in the 1970's, to sizes that make Ubiquity's thirty-four foot length seem undersized. The large motor yachts in the Puerto Los Cabos Marina testify further to the American taste for aggrandizement.

But does Ubiquity's size make her inadequate? No. Like "The Little Engine that Could" (one of my favorite children's books as a child), S/V Ubiquity has proved her capability, despite her diminutive size.

Also, her smaller size makes Ubiquity easier for her somewhat aged crew (69 year old captain, 70 year old crew) to handle as a sailboat, thus encouraging sailing rather than motoring.

On the Ensenada to Cabo passage Ubiquity motored in light air leaving Ensenada, to make the Bahia Santa Maria anchorage, and to make San Jose del Cabo. When winds became too light to sail in passage, the crew of Ubiquity hove to and went to sleep, awaiting a sailing wind. Ubiquity arrived in San Jose del Cabo with her fuel gauge at three-quarters full, without stopping to refuel at Turtle Bay, and without cluttering her sidedecks with fuel containers (Cluttered sidedecks are not your friend at sea in rougher conditions).

So the captain and crew of Ubiquity thank her for her seaworthiness and small size. She is "The Little Sailboat that Could".