Ensenada to Bahia Tortuga

March 1-4, 2013

The highlights of this passage were whales, whales everywhere, and our first catch. I didn’t get good photos of the whales this time (but stay tuned).

Logbook – March 2, 2013 (Ensenada to Turtle Bay)

Passage Log Highlights

1600 Flying spinnaker
1835 First fish! 13.1 lbs

Edit: This was a Bonita that we thought was a Skipjack until we learned the Skipjacks are really yucky

IMG_9273 (2) — Dolphins escorting me at sunrise

IMG_9279 (2) — The boys actually have a lot of fun together

Alex gets credit for this one

IMG_9285 (2) — Proud fishermen. 10/14/13 Update: When we caught this we thought it was a Skipjack, and it was tasty. Brenden knows his fish now, and he has proudly told me that this was a Bonito, not a skipjack. No wonder we enjoyed it so much since we now know that Skipjacks most certainly are not tasty.

Logbook – March 3, 2013 (Ensenada to Turtle Bay)

Passage Log Highlights

0600 Beautiful sunrise
0730 Chubasco net 7192 LSB. Couldn’t hear net traffic. Can hear moderator very faint. From ? to Cabo winds out of W-NW. Flat seas.
0800 Baja net 7238 – nothing
0815 Baja weather w/ Don A. – 7233.5 can hear traffic, seems like it started earlier. Can hear weather. Try tomorrow 0800.
0830 coastguard weather 8764 – Loud & clear

Edit: Eventually, when I was actually able to hear all of the SSB nets, I stopped logging this type of crap in our main logbook and kept a separate notebook for it.