The Slog Blog

We left Tenacatitas on Thursday due to predicted NW winds developing off Cabo Corrientes. We motored north in basically no wind until early afternoon when we were able to sail for a couple of hours. The wind clocked around so we were heading straight head to wind. The wind had dropped to 5 knots or so. We tried tacking a few times but basically were not making much way north so we started the motor again and motor sailed through the night. The winds were not strong, rarely reaching 10 knots, the seas were only 3-5 feet but close together so we hobby horsed our way north between 2-4 knots most of the night. It took us 24 to reach Cabo Corrientis and we still had 30 odd miles to go. We decided top head for the anchorage in La Cruz for the night. Surprise, surprise, the wind was coming from the anchorage in La Cruz so we continued to motor sail with only the main up. A long, slogging trip north with little to make it memorable. We moved a few turtles out of the way with our bow wake and had a whale blow about 50 meters from us in Banderas Bay. When we got to La Cruz, we spied out a Canadian Flag on a boat from the Bluewater Cruising fleet of 2006, Jabula. Bruce and Jeannie, a South African couple who made their home in Canada for a few years have already gone around the world once on their Westerly 33 and working their way around again. We spent an enjoyable few hours with them and with luck will run into them again further south. Saturday morning we managed to get Marina Vallarta on the phone with Skype and they said come on in, they would give us a slip assignment when we got in. I tried to explain that we could not call them as we have no phone, I was using the computer, but no comprendo. We upped anchor and were underway shortly after 10:00 in the morning. We called to the marina on the VHF when were inside the harbour and I almost fell over when Sergio answered the radio and gave us a berth. We settled in with help from a couple of dock guys from the marina and then a panic ensued as the boat that had left the slip was returning with engine trouble and we had to move. We ended up on K dock with an 83 foot gin palace on one side and a 75 foot steel sloop on the other side. We look like a toy!

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