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  • March 1, 2023-Tenacatita Trip

    wingssail images fredrick roswold Judy takes us out I’m on watch and I’m just sitting on deck, watching. I guess that’s what you do when you are on watch; you watch. It’s midnight and we are running down wind in a strong breeze. We have a reefed mainsail and a small More

  • June 29, 2021-Socked In

    wingssail images-fredrick roswold Hurricane Enrique At least the rain from hurricane Enrique has filled our water tanks. That and being able to spend some time with our friends Kirk and Heidi from Due West are about the best things we can say about being socked in by a hurricane. At More

  • August 8, 2019- Re-Entry

    It was more like a space voyage than a cruise; we hardly ever left the capsule. wingssail images-judy jensen Easy Sailing After finally hitting escape velocity in May, and breaking free from the gravitational pull of Banderas Bay we travelled south to the Coasta Alegra (“Happy Coast”) which includes places More

  • July 14, 2019-Back to Barra

    wingssail images-fredrick roswold Tucked in at Tenacatita We spent a couple of few weeks bouncing back and forth between Tenacatita and La Manzanilla, going to Tenacatita if the winds were forecast to be northerly, and over to La Manzanilla if they were forecast southerly. The problem is that neither anchorage More

  • June 25, Barra and Tenacatita

    wingssail images-fredrick roswold Friends in Barra Today the wind went east of south for the first time this year. We were a little surprised as it wasn’t in the forecast, but not shocked; there were storms brewing out in the Pacific and those storms could mess up the weather without More

  • Season Three: Panama!

    Class of 2018-2019 at Barra de Navidad Each season begins with a plan. This season Michael and I shook hands on taking the Central American route to Panama. We thought we would have made it there last season, but plans changed. This year we seem determined, albeit somewhat scared to leave what has become our […] More

  • Policía, Pastries, Pelicans, and Pus? 

    Peaceful  Jalisco We are in the state of Jalisco, which according to the news reports, should have me cautious or even in retreat from this place of crime–danger. Yet, all we experience are peaceful friendly people living their lives.  When I hear reports of the homicides (which is rare, since I’m somewhat tuned out to […] More