On our way back to Capri, we stopped in Yucatan in southern Mexico.  Here, deep in the jungles, one finds a great concentration of the ancient Mayan city ruins.  I will describe our visits to three of the cities, but first a bit about the Mayan civilization itself. At its height, the Mayan empire stretched…

Capri is currently in San Carlos on the Pacific side of Mexico. On October 13, we were once again united with our wonderful Capri.  She is still on the hard, waiting to be bottom painted and polished, while the crew luxuriates in an Airbnb nearby. While we were gone, Capri survived Chubasco winds and a…

The Tarahumara live in Copper Canyon in Mexico.  Copper Canyon is a complex of six major canyons that have their confluence south of Chihuahua.  In terms of area, the canyons are bigger than Denmark and about the same size as West Virginia, USA.  There are few roads into the canyons; those that are there are…

We didn’t sail further south than Manzanillo since it is more than 800 nm from Manzanillo to San Carlos where we will haul Capri and put her on the hard from June 15 to October 20 (the hurricane season).  Our boat insurance (Pantaenius) doesn’t cover damage by hurricanes or named storms if the boat is…

When we were in Mazatlan, we were tied up next to a Swedish boat.  Maude and Tore told us that as we proceeded southward to make sure we made good time for staying in Bahia de la Navidad.  We have been looking forward to that. We weighed anchor in Tenacatita Bay and sailed around the…

Chamela Our Pilot book told us that if we wanted to visit a truly authentic Mexican beach town – then Chamela Bay was the place to go.  It was not lying.  We weren’t very many boats at anchor and there were a number of beach restaurants.  Little Capri has training wheels now – so she…

As Carsten described in our last blog, we fled from the anchorage at Chacala after only one night.  Not only due to the unpleasant swells, we could have simply set a stern anchor, but also the cacophony of brass band music played at incredibly loud levels, drove us away.  We did not want to incur…

We set sail early one morning for the 200 some odd nautical mile run across the Sea of Cortez to Mazatlán.  After weeks of lying at anchor in La Paz getting blasted by the afternoon winds, we were sure we would have a wonderful sail across without having to sue our engine. We guessed wrong…

After 30,000 nautical miles, it is once again time to reflect a bit on our lives, sailing and other existential issues, such as the price of beer, our Grand Adventure and anything else we can think of.  Seven years ago, we took in our lines and sailed away from Copenhagen, our family, friends, career and…

So, first let’s say a few words about the Baja peninsula.  It stretches southward f800nm rom the southern border of California, USA between the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Sea of Cortez to the east.  Most of the land is arid and a semi-desert.  There is little natural water here and it seldom…