Sunday, 21 April 2013
To San Carlos

After the Northerner had gone, the weather took a more settled view and by Sunday it was quite calm with a good weather forecast for the week ahead. We had planned to leave early on Monday morning however as everything had settled down so well we decided to leave on Sunday evening instead.

We dropped the mooring lines at 7:00 pm and headed out of the harbor. Once clear of Puerto Escondido we set course for San Carlos passing between Isla Coronados and Isla Carmen at midnight. The weather stayed calm with gentle winds from the SSW and then SSE at 8-12 Knots during the night. By daybreak Monday, we were already almost a third of the way to San Carlos.

During the morning, we passed through a fog bank for a couple of hours until about noon when the sun finally broke through to give us a very pleasant day of motor-sailing in very light winds of less than 5 Knots with a slight sea of less than two feet. An hour or so short of San Carlos, we hailed the Marina on the VHF and received a slip assignment for the next two weeks until our haul-out on May 6. We were safely in our slip by 4:45 pm ships time. A very pleasant crossing in great weather conditions for the 132 KM in just under 22 hours.

We will take a day of rest before cleaning the boat and starting the preparations for our Haul-out.

So ends season two of cruising in Mexico. We covered just over 1,000 miles during the six months and experienced the usual mix of weather conditions but had two relatively mild crossings of the Sea of Cortez. Once again we made many new sailing friends and saw some wonderful locations spending long enough in each to get much of the flavor of life in Mexico.