The sailing adventures of SV Meriwether and her crew
From our last anchorage to Santa Rosalia is 75 nautical miles of open water with no safe anchorages along the way, so it has to be done in a single voyage. Moving at barely the pace of a New York City jogger doesn’t get you through 75 miles very quickly; about 14 hours in total. At this time of year...
A good sized northerly blow was threatening us in a few days time, and while we were somewhat protected where we were on Isla Salsipuedes, it wasn’t the best. And, if we stayed, we would have been stuck there another five days or more while the blow… well, blew. So, a couple days before the wind was to visit, we...
Four nights. Four whole nights we stayed at our last anchorage. It is rare that we hang out in any one location for this length of time, at least in the past two sailing years. Once we left Alaska, we have stayed only 2.9 days, on average, at each location. That includes both 3 week spans we spent in the...
After a day’s rest, we hauled up anchor and set off from the northern tip of Isla Angel de la Guarda on a day in which we had the best chance of getting some sailing in. The wind was forecast to pickup as the day aged, providing us a good breeze on Meriwether’s stern for the second half of the...
A mere 22 hours is all it took to start us back into a groove we have long missed; being out at anchor. Following the 110 mile overnight sail (our 23rd night at sail), which consisted of only 4 hours of actual sailing, we arrived at Isla Ángel de la Guarda at 4am in a pitch black anchorage. Only one...
We hit the ground running. It was simply too hot to live on the boat now that we were up and out of the water. Our new-to-us apartment had air conditioning and running water, which is a lot more than Meriwether would have for some time, but it was over a half mile away. This meant we had to move...
Summer was right around the corner, and unlike the Pacific North West, we do not want to be living on a boat come summer time. Not only is it blistery hot, it is hurricane season in these parts. It is why Kerri chose the northern tip of the Sea of Cortez, it is a fair bit off the exact path...
At the northern tip of the northern-most island in the Sea of Cortez is a sprinkling of anchorages under the umbrella of what is well known as “Refugio”. Not too many cruisers come this far north in the Sea, and the ones that do come here for one reason; it is the jump-off point to make the overnight sail into...
Time was running out on us. We were less than two weeks from our haul-out date still nearly two-hundred miles away. There isn’t a whole lot to explore between where we are and where we need to be, but we both wanted to just sit still for a while before the start of our summer project list. Not that we...
Having only just learned how to relax again, we threw all those lessons out the window. Instead of hanging out in one location for a period of time, we found ourselves in seven different anchorages over the course of two weeks. On the plus side, they were all quite close to each other, making those travel days pretty light. This...
