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.

01 May 2018 | El Cid - Mazatlan

Marina El Cid - Mazatlan

Today is Tuesday May 1, 2018.

09 April 2018 | Marina Mazatlan

Marina Mazatlan

Today is Monday April 9, 2018.

07 March 2018 | La Cruz de Huanacaxtle

Leaving Banderas Bay

Today is Wednesday March 7, 2018.

Barra de Navidad

14 February 2015 | Barra de Navidad
Raining
Well it looks like it's been a couple of weeks since I posted to our blog.

We spent three nights in Melaque before moving over to the marina Puerto de Navidad. We spent six nights in the marina. We had the boat washed and waxed and the bottom cleaned. We also enjoyed the amenities at the Grand Bay Hotel, including their pools and internet.

Barra de Navidad is a nice town with tourist shops and small taquerias to eat at. You can take your dinghy over to the Sands Hotel and use their quay wall to tie up. We used the Book Exchange here in town. It's a small alcove the size of a long closet. You leave a book and take a book. Melodie picked a book on horses she thought she'd like, but it wasn't what she thought. We returned a couple of days later but the place was closed. Melodie reached through the iron gate and selected another book within arms reach (leaving the horse book in the "IN" box).

We enjoyed an authentic Chinese dinner with a large group this week. A gringo in town has a Chinese wife. She prepares a buffet in her home and it's BYOB. It was delicious. We had pineapple chicken, fish balls, egg rolls, broccoli beef, chow mien, and sauteed greens. Their house had a lush tropical garden and we dined under palapas. The only drawback was the mosquitoes. Their house is on a canal and we had to apply multiple coats of bug spray.

We moved to the anchorage in the Lagoon at Barra on Friday 2/13. Maybe that was an omen (Friday the 13th). A rain squall came in at just after midnight. Pouring rain and wind gusts in the high 20's. We stayed awake from midnight until 2:00 am just to make sure our anchor held (it did).

Melodie heads back to the SF Bay Area on Monday to take care of a few things. One of the things to buy is a new keyboard for my laptop. The "F" and "v" keys have stopped working. Making posting on this blog lots of fun!

We'll be in Barra de Navidad a few days after Melodie returns, then we'll start working our way north. We originally thought we'd make it as far south as Zihuatanejo, but not this year.
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