The sailing adventures of SV Meriwether and her crew
We left Santa Rosalia a few days after the new years, to continue our southern momentum. We chose a nice weather window to make the 30 mile sail further down the Baja coastline. Actually, we chose this day as the next week afterwards was forecast to blow from the north. With wind on our back side, we sailed for more...
Just before Jan 1 of 2023 we entered Mexico via Ensenada. After a three week stay in the marina for final packages, paperwork, and supplies we set sail down the west coast of Baja. Some hops where multi-day/night sails in the open ocean, others were single day sails. We got to meet up with long time friends, the Malimish family...
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...
I am not the kind that likes to detail our “renovations” in long winded posts or how-to’s. Honestly, I barely know what I am doing as it is. Still, I like to keep my future self reminded (since my current self will forget) of the pains I went through over a period of time in my life. Since I last...
Kerri and I had decided to take the month of September off. Both from the boat, and from Mexico. The plan was to do a month long road trip to visit numerous family and friends and return to Meriwether in October to complete the much-shortened todo list before splashing in early November (fingers crossed). That is/was the plan anyway. I’m...
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...
