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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

  • 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 26, 2019-Evening in Tenacatita

    Tonight we are, as my friend Jim Watson would say, “tucked in”. We’re behind an un-named headland in Tenacatita Bay. “Tucked in” means being as far back behind the point at you can get so as to obtain the most protection possible for any kind of wind which might arise More

  • May 29, 2019-Making a Mop in Tenacatita

    wingssail images-fredrick roswold We Depart Tomorrow, With the Breeze For over two months we waited for the Mexican residence permits, for Immigration to finish the paperwork. On any day of those two months could have come the call, “Please come to the office now…”, so we were stuck; we couldn’t 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