by Judy Odenheimer | Apr 14, 2017 | our2022
Update and some stats… We are tied up in Highborne Cay Marina, near the top of the Bahamas Exumas Islands chain, waiting for the latest front to pass so we can proceed north. Weather calls the shots, as usual. I was going through my daily journal to...
by Judy Odenheimer | Jun 27, 2016 | Jamaca, Jamaica, Kingston, our2022
Cetacean was supposed to stay at the Royal Jamaica Yacht Club (Kingston, Jamaica) for the 2016 hurricane season. But, upon our arrival at the Royal Jamaican Yacht Club there, we were told no longterm berth or land storage were available for our boat. While we were...
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by | Jul 4, 2013 | Baja California, boat-projects, Mexico, our2022, preparations, update, weather
It’s taken more than a week of ticking tasks off of “the list” to prepare Cetacean for this last trip this season. Our insurance company insists: the boat must remain above 27 degrees north latitude during hurricane season. In San Carlos, Sonora, on mainland...
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by | Jun 12, 2013 | our2022, Uncategorized
We bid farewell to Puerto Escondido and headed north for Isla Carmen. The island, about 20 miles long, maybe 5 miles at its widest, is just 10 miles east of Loreto and offers a multitude of anchorages with lots of things to do and see. In 2006 we sailed to and,...
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by | Apr 25, 2013 | our2022, remote blog entry, Uncategorized, update
We are finally, finally in Mexico. It was hard to believe we’d arrived even while we checked in to the country at the Ensenada immigration and capitan de puerto office. Several days later, we picked up our zarpe (permission to leave port) and were given a...
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by | Apr 20, 2013 | our2022, Uncategorized
Sailors have always needed to watch the weather so it should be no surprise that we have lots of weather related tools and books on board to understand weather at sea before we set sail. Maybe ‘understand’ the weather is too literal. Maybe...
