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Punta Chivato (South)

November 5-8, 2013

On our way up we stopped on the north side of Punta Chivato because the prevailing winds were from the south, so this time, with north winds, we anchored on the south side. We were here during a pretty good blow, so we didn’t even get off the boat.

An overnight passage from San Francisquito to Punta Chivato. Depart Oct 5 1255, Arrive Oct 6 0750.

Logbook – November 5, 2013 (San Francisquito to Punta Chivato)

Passage Log Highlights

  • 1245 Engines on
  • 1255 Depart San Francisquito
  • 1420 Engines off
  • 1506 Main + genniker. 16.3 kts NW
  • 1700 Main (2 reefs) + genoa wing & wing. 16.8 kts NW
  • 1833 Main (2 reefs) + genoa port tack. 18.4 kts NW
  • 2043 Main (2 reefs) no headsail. 20.7 kts NW

Daily Notes

  • 2 fish on. Skipjack bleh!
Fishing underway
Everyone gets a turn!

Logbook – November 6, 2013 (San Francisquito to Punta Chivato)

Passage Log Highlights

  • 0630 Engines on
  • 0750 Arrive Bahia Santa Inez (Punta Chivato)
Arrival at Punta Chivato. I had the morning watch, and Tim was a bit annoyed I went around the small islands. (Looking at satellite imagery now, it would have been fine to cut across. But we didn’t start using satellite imagery for navigation until we were in Fiji, and I didn’t trust the charts and it was dark, so I went around.)
There is a resort here, shown in the background of this photo, but it was completely dark at night, so we think it was closed down.
Tim stayed occupied cooped up on the boat…
…and so di d the boys

Logbook – November 7, 2013 (Punta Chivato)

Daily Notes

  • Tim swapped out VHF radios
  • A finished test lesson 1001
  • Wind died down in the late afternoon. T & boys dinghy fish while I made chili and bread

(Edit: The new VHF radio has 2 new features we didn’t have before: an AIS receiver and a mic at the helm. Having an AIS receiver made passage making safer since we can see the location, speed, heading, etc of other vessel who are broadcasting instead of just relying on the radar. We didn’t transmit AIS, which would have been even safer, and I would recommend that no cruising vessel should be without AIS receive and transmit.)

Our new VHF radio on the left (on the right is the SSB)
New VHF remote microphone at the helm
I think this is looking south across Bahia Santa Inez towards Point Concepcion

Email to family and friends dated November 7, 2013

Subject: Punta Chivato

Hi All,
We arrived here yesterday morning and had a decent passage here through the night… mostly 18-22 kt winds, as hight as 26. But this time it was all on our stern so we didn’t get tossed around too much. Yesterday in the late morning after anchoring we saw as high as 30, but we are in a good spot for NW winds. It’s supposed to blow pretty hard today too, so we are just going to stay tucked in here and catch up on schoolwork. We will probably keep heading south tomorrow and get to the Loreto/Puerto Escondido area next week some time. Not sure if Tim’s let anyone know yet, but he has to fly to LA to deal with some issues with his real estate business. He departs Wed Nov 20 and returns M Nov 25. The boys and I will just hang out in Puerto Escondido while he’s gone. Not a great place, but hey, at least there’s a restaurant with internet. And actually there’s supposed to be a great hike, and since it’s not suffocatingly hot anymore, maybe we’ll give that a go.
Love and miss you all,
-D.

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