(Above photo shows S/V Ubiquity's Captain as Ubiquity crashed through the waves off Cabo Falso.)

Cape Falso beat us up, but also caused us to realize that we really did not want to beat our way around all of the capes sailing from Ensenada to Portland.

Until dealing with Falso I had focused on the idea of sailing far offshore to make Isla Guadalupe, then cross over to the Baja and make Ensenada. But after we were past our beating from Falso, Leslie (my crew) and I talked and we realized we did not want to spend the next few months beating our way around all the other capes. When we sailed south in 2016 we left late in the season, got into winter weather, and had to beat our way around Capes Blanco and Mendocino. Going north in the summer we would have to beat against the wind around all of the capes - Conception, Mendocino, Blanco, and all the smaller ones.

After realizing we did not want to do that now, then sailing the offshore route to Ensenada no longer made sense. We had already decided we did not want to sail to Hawaii, since we had heard how it is not cruiser friendly. My backup option has been to ship the boat to Victoria on a freighter from La Paz. Since we like Victoria and the summer sailing options nearby, and since paying for the freighter transport is not an issue for me, we decided to enjoy the Sea of Cortez a little more, then prepare the boat in La Paz to ship to Victoria.

So that's basically what happened: Getting beat up by Cabo Falso led us to realize we did not want to spend the next several months beating all the way up the west coast around all of the other capes, and we decided to ship S/V Ubiquity to Victoria and use her in the summer in the Pacific Northwest.

I am sorry if I have disappointed some of my blog readers by not doing the offshore route to Isla Guadalupe. I still think it is a viable, although hard, sailing route. Perhaps I have inspired some of my readers, and perhaps one will try it some day.