We spent a long four days in Ensenada. We arrived Monday 11/4 as
planned and quickly ran up against the Mexican Bureaucracy. We hoped one
day would be enough to clear up our TIP (see previous blog), but it
stretched to four days as the question of cancelling an existing TIP
needed to be resolved in Mexcio City. Marina Coral was a very nice (and
expensive) place to wait. We passed the time catching up on sleep, a
couple of boat projects and basically waiting patiently. We finally
received the necessary piece of paper Thursday morning and were off the
dock by 10.

There was some fog as we left the bay and then it cleared enough, and
the wind built enough for us to sail. We’ve been sailing for about 12
and a half hours since we left and been motor sailing for about the same
amount of time. Right now we’re about twenty miles off shore, on a beam
reach with about 15 knots of breeze. It’s a little rolly with one meter
following seas. It’s sunny and 65F. Ginger (the windvane) is steering,
Linda’s on watch. Collen and Pete are napping and I’m monitoring the
watermaker, which is making 9 gph on 10 amps of solar power. We’re way
behind the BajaHaHa pack, but glad to be underway and sailing.

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