Stats and Facts from Our Adventure

Here's some stats and facts.  If you see a highlighted-underlined text, it's a link to that blog post story.

  

Number of nautical miles covered:  12,252 nautical miles since we left San Francisco, CA in Oct, 2008

Fastest speed seen motoring: 13.9 knots, surfing down a wave entering the Barra de Navidad entrance

Fastest speed under sail alone: 12 knots, sustained

Total number of anchorages stayed in: 144

Longest time spent in one place: 2 1/2 months at El Cid, Mazatlan when we were broken down, waiting for parts, Yanmar picked up the marina bill - thank you very much Total Yacht Works

Longest time period spent off the boat in four years:  1 month
Number of times we crossed the Sea of Cortez: 10 times

Number of hours put on engines: 1,819

Most Dangerous Experience: The Weather Bomb in La Cruz, February, 2010

Scariest Experience: Running from Hurricane Jimena with one engine not working.

Laura's Favorites:

Anchorage: Islotes in Animas Bay near Bahia de Los Angeles

Seafood to catch: Snorkeling for scallops

Experience: Being in a pod of 100+ sperm whales

Town to visit: Zihuatanejo

Beach combing find: Perfect Sea Lion Skull
Best Hiking Find:  Ancient stone hand-tool

Seafood Street Taco Stand: Tacos Estadio in La Paz

Meat Street Taco Stand: Don Julio in Manzanillo - the tongue taco is a life changing experience

Restaurant: El Montaleyo in Mazatlan - lamb tacos

Most amazing thing I saw: Blue whale

Thing I will miss the most: Dolphins playing in my bow wake

Patrick's Favorites:

Anchorage: Caleta Pulpito, backside of  Isla Angel de la Guarda

Seafood to catch: Spearfishing for anything

Experience: Flying the spinnaker

Town to visit: La Paz

Beach combing find: Huge turtle skull found in Conception Bay
Best Hiking find:  Fossilized Shark teeth and a primitive bone spear head

Seafood Street Taco Stand: Tacos Estadio in La Paz,

Meat Street Taco Stand - Rico's in Santa Rosalia - pastor taco

Restaurant:  Can't pick just one 

Most amazing thing I saw: Great White shark

Thing I will miss the most: Good tortillas and no alarm clock

Jack's Favorites:

Anchorage: Not telling, he doesn't want it ruined by the time he gets back

Seafood to catch:  Shooting Barred Pargo spear fishing

Experience:  Swimming with manta rays - pretty big ones

Town to visit:  La Paz

Beach combing find:  A total of 46 rapala fishing lures

Seafood Street Taco Stand: Tacos Estadio, La Paz
Meat Street Taco Stand: Taco Loco, Mazatlan  - arrachera tacos

Restaurant: Lupe's Paradise Resort, Santispac beach Conception Bay - chile rellenos

Most amazing thing I saw:  Bobcat scaling a 70 ft sheer cliff in less than 10 seconds

Thing I will miss the most: Everything - Mexico, living on a boat, snorkeling

Rudy's Favorites:  (Rudy is one of those dogs that speak in exclamations!)

Anchorage:  The Magote in La Paz - great beach!

Seafood to catch:  Blue crabs!

Experience:  Alone in the pontoon with the food bin - three different times!

Town to visit: Zihuatanejo - They loved me there!  They fed me crackers and I was the star of a street show!

Beach combing find:  A total of 1,462 dead fish, lots of crunchy bird carcasses, and a still-meaty dead whale!

Seafood Street Taco Stand: Love em all!
Meat Street Taco Stand: Even better!

Restaurant: Alone in the pontoon with the food bin!  Self-serve!

Most amazing thing I saw:  A swimming dog that kept following me around the boat!

Thing I will miss the most: Swimming every day and watching dolphins!

And the Least Favorites
Laura's
Worst Injury/Illness:  Falling through the hatch during our race in LA Bay
Thing I won't miss at all:  Trying to keep everything clean and smelling good (including myself) with limited water, no constant running hot water, and no convenience machines that do that for you at home -dishwasher, dryer, washing machine....
Patrick's
Worst Injury/Illness:  Putting my head in a spinning metal wind generator
Thing I won't miss at all:  The sun
Jack's
Worst/Illness/Injury: Dengue Fever
Thing I won't miss at all:  Wet dinghy rides
Rudy's
Worst Illness/Injury: Anaplasmosis infection from a tick!
Thing I won't miss at all: Hotpots - bacterial skin infections caused by my thick coat, humidity and heat!