Leg 15: Bahía Asunción to Bahía Santa Maria

  

Wednesday December 8, 2021

Bahía Asunción

Tuna steaks for lunch!

8Dec 1:39pm PST Text from Lawrence:

Departure 1425 mountain time. Destination Bahia Santa Maria and exploration of Magdalena Bay

Roger that! Safe travels!! Thanks 

Leg 15

Departure Time:  2:25pm local time Wednesday December 8, 2021 

Departure from:  Bahía Asunción, Baja California, México

4 souls aboard

Lawrence Kerver

Gloria Vilchez

Andrew McMullin

Ryan Bernhardt

Destination:  South to Bahía Santa Maria, Magdalena Bay, Baja California, México

Since Bahía Santa Maria was not easy to find via Google Maps, I used mapcarta.com to find the GPS coordinates for this gem of an anchorage which you can see here:  Bahia Santa Maria

Bluewater's destination:  Bahía Santa Maria!
GPS Coordinates:  24°43'51.2"N 112°11'39.7"W

Bluewater's Leg 15:  Bahía Asunción to Bahía Santa Maria

Thursday December 9, 2021

...sailed through the night and still sailing today...

Ryan on the bow late afternoon, sailing south downwind

Gloria and Lawrence - good colors!

Bluewater sailing downwind late afternoon

Nice Pen!  Good luck!

Andrew and a hint of a double rainbow

Andrew enjoying the rainbow
from horizon to horizon

Andrew at sunset with a double rainbow! Nice!

9Dec 9:36pm PST Texts from Lawrence:

We do have one bar of signal.  Heading to anchor now.  About 4 or 5 vessels anchored. We spoke to S/V Paragon along the trip down and look forward to meeting them ashore tomorrow.

Bahia Santa Maria

Excellent!!!! Enjoy! Happy to follow your adventures. Stay safe

Bluewater checked in safe & sound @ Bahía Santa Maria!

Approx Arrival:  9:40pm PST / 10:40pm local (Mountain) time Thurs December 9, 2021

Duration of Leg 15: Somewhere around 20+ hours

Friday December 10, 2021

Bahía Santa Maria

Woke up today to a full report from Lawrence!

10Dec 8:15am PST email from Lawrence:

Hola!

Thanks for checking on us and all the great reporting on our adventures.  Departing Asunción we caught 2 mackerel on boat lines over a shallower reef.  Andrew released one and we fried the other up on the griddle with a egg, bread crumb batter.   Yum!  Andrew and Ryan are very skilled and hard-working.   Hard to imagine more capable crew.   Ryan does the great majority of cooking and dishes followed by Andrew and we’ve been very conservative with the water.  Great to have them aboard and Gloria is learning the ropes more and more each day.  Our batteries are not taking a charge well so I plan to replace them all in Cabo San Lucas if possible.

We chatted on the VHF with s/v Paragon last night as they were sailing close to us so I hailed them to say hello.   They hailed us later in the evening when the winds unexpectedly picked up to around 25kts yet again.   The skipper said, “where the hell did this come from?”  We had reefed our main to 2nd and stowed the screacher, but only very light winds were forecast. Shortly after our conversation on 68 we heard in Spanish on 16 - “Those Americanos are soft…”.  Amazing 😂  

It’s been challenging sailing as our destinations have been DDW and the sails have blocked the sun from our solar panels so it’s constant effort to get any sun while keeping from accidental gybing.   We arrived to see about 6 or so boats anchored in fairly deep water.  We can see them on the AIS and also radar which we use judiciously due to power consumption.   All vessels weighed anchor and departed this morning while I’m watching, typing except a military vessel and Paragon who re-anchored this morning just next to us.  Their crew is a relatively young couple along with their dog so we’re looking forward to dinghying over to say hello.  They have a gorgeous 50’ new yacht.  The bay is beautiful but there is still wind and sun so we may depart again bound for Cabo.  We don’t have enough fuel to make it without wind. We’ll keep you posted as much as possible. 

Love to all

love 

Lobster fisherman

Ryan cooking lobsters
Sailing vessel Paragon in the background

Fresh grilled lobsters!

PS. Just as I was about to push ‘send’ we were approached by a panga with 3 fisherman. They had fresh, live langostas so we traded Oreos, licorice, sour candies and pesos for 6 nice specimens. Looking forward to grilled lobster tail and eggs in the very near future. They requested ‘candies’ for trade so I’ll need to console Gloria after she gave up her prized stash. Pics to come when we reach Cabo. 

That bucket is sure making the rounds...Love it!

Ready! LOTS of grilled lobster!

Fantastic meal! Could be in a foodie magazine! Andrew looks happy!

Gloria out for an afternoon swim off the bow,
anchor bridle in view descends to anchor below

Saturday December 11, 2021

Bahía Santa Maria

Departure day.....