Monthly Archives: January 2013

First fishing expedition

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1.4.2013 15:00pm 76F

When we bought N6206, previously “Feeling”, we inherited a bunch of fishing gear with the boat. With little to none fishing experience, we kinda just left them as they were. Luckily, two weeks before we left San Francisco, Erik, our neighbor at West Point, helped us sorted out our fishing gear and gave us a few lessons on fishing. Knowing just enough to be dangerous, we rigged up two fishing poles, gearing up for our first fishing expedition on the way to Cabo.

It was one of the most beautiful days on this trip, blue sky and flat sea. We set the lines and just hung out in the aft pilothouse cockpit. Fishing or not, we had a blast watching all the sea life out there, dolphins, sea lions, whales.

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Charlotte B

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1.2.2013 15:00pm 70F

Once we decided to go to Mexico, one of my primary “tourist” attractions was the N62 that went on the rocks near Mag Bay April of 2006. We had spoken to James Lieshman who has been aboard about a year later and said most everything was intact. Besides a “Dreamer’s curiosity” – I had a few things I’d prefer not to buy from Nordhavn, like a new door handle for the side door, and a missing scupper door – that with the starboard following sea can sound like a sonic boom while napping the the master cabin.

From the image on Google earth (24° 27.444’N 111° 54.535’W) – you can see she’s laying on her side – so with the sat photo and coordinates we were ready.

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18 days / 1000 nm

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We crossed 1000 nm since our departure from San Francisco; 1/8 th of our 8000 mile journey is completed in just the first 18 days. We’ve consistly averaged over 8.5 knots / slightly more than 200 miles over 24 hours. In 18 days, we’ve spent 1 day at the dock in Ensenada, we’re very pleased with the battery consumption and power generation.

We’re gaining confidence in picking our weather windows. Between the KVH V7 and our Telcel USB connection here in Mexico, we can download current grib files and NOAA marine forecasts. We deoarted San Francisco ahead of the series of fronts coming out of the North Pacific, road out a gale at anchor in the Channel Islands (definitely have our anchor tackle figured out – not to mention the anchor alarm and GPS track feature). We ran south from Redondo Beach ahead of another front although we had the 10 – 12 foot swells on our Ensenada passage. Now 500 miles south of Ensenada we still have a some NW swell and as forecasted a NE wind which is making things a little sloppy. Last two overnights have had plenty of moonlight – nice to have the horizon in sight.

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