Kasasa Heading to Her Summer Grounds
27 February 2014 | Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Ellen
Somehow it's gotten to be the end of February and we are now thinking getting the boat up north into the Sea of Cortez for the summer months. In past years we have left her in La Paz but this year, we have decided to take Kasasa up to Guaymas for the summer. 2 big reasons for that. The cost is less than half to leave a boat up there and the other big reason is Ian would like to do some bigger jobs on the boat and it's one of the few boatyards in Mexico where you can work on your own boat without having to pay to do so. He figures he needs about a month to get the work done and in some places like the yard we were in last year in La Paz, the price we were quoted to do our own work was 1 hundred dollars a day! Ouch! It basically comes down to them almost forcing you to hire the boatyard to do the work as it costs less than doing it yourself. Strange but true.
So we are now northbound. We left Tenacatita about a week ago and so far have gotten to Puerto Vallarta. With the seasonal northwinds still in effect, we really have to watch our weather windows and only go on light wind days as sailing or motoring straight into the wind can be a slow and frustrating process not to mention hard on the boat and crew. Tomorrow is looking good for another 2 days of travel so hopefully we will be leaving here at first light in the morning. Our next goal is to get to Mazatlan about 180 miles north from here.
From there we plan to jump across the sea to La Paz as we want to drop most of our luggage off in the car we have there. From La Paz we head up the coast but it's all just day hops up a couple of hundred miles to Punta Chivata where we will once again cross the sea straight across to Guaymas. So that's what we will be up to for the next month in case your wondering where Kasasa is!
In the meantime it's been great fun running into friends here in La Cruz. This is a great meeting spot for everyone as people make their way north, south or quite a few who are puddle jumping across the ocean to the South Pacific Islands.