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DianaT
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It does not matter how many people have done it before and wrote about it. Do it! Do it in your own style, and write about it.
It will be your adventure, and your story---and that will be an original.
Good Luck
Diane
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Minnow
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skeet/Loreto
Fishbuck:
"Cruising the Sea of Cortez" by Spencer Murray-Revised-1967 is an excellent Book to get and read!~
Skeet/Loreto |
Skeet I bought that one off of ebay from nomad dean miller. Great read. I particularly like the part where the bull rampages thru La Paz.
Fishbuck, It has been done many times, but don't let that stop you. Go for it. 4baja even has a friend who bought a new boat/18ft bayrunner in San
Diego, and was going to fish as fish south as Ensenada. He ended up in La Paz a week later and had to call his Girlfriend to bring the trailer down.
I would have loved to have heard how that conversation went.
I also met some Guys in Gonzaga Bay, they were going from SF to Keno Bay in a big Cruiser. They claimed to have done the entire peninsula on Jet
ski's. They were very believable as they were in about a million dollar boat.
Proud husband of a legal immigrant.
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neilmac
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Well, here ya go...
http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20070508/463ff5c...
"Swiss solar boat completes fuel-free Atlantic voyage"
"BASEL, Switzerland - A Swiss-built solar vessel arrived in New York Tuesday on what the group behind the project said was the first sun-powered
voyage across the Atlantic.
Dubbed "sun21," the catamaran reached North Cove Marina after a journey of six months and some 13,000 kilometers (over 8,000 miles) from Chipiona,
Spain, to the Caribbean island of Martinique and then along the U.S. East Coast to New York, the Switzerland-based group transatlantic21 said in a
statement.
According to the organization, the 14 meter-boat (46 foot) produced 2,000 kilowatt hours of solar energy during its voyage thanks to a roof of
photovoltaic panels mounted above the twin-hulled design.
The solar energy was used to power the boat's electric motors and any surplus was stored in batteries, allowing it to travel at a constant speed of 56
knots (1012 kilometers or 6-7 miles per hour) day or night, the group's Web site said.
The group said this showed the crossing can be made entirely without fuel, a claim which could not be independently verified.
"This proves that in our modern society it is indeed possible to travel the world efficiently and still safeguard the environment," said the boat's
skipper, Michael Thonney."
but I think their speed numbers are a little screwed up
Neil
more info: http://www.transatlantic21.org/
| Quote: | Originally posted by fishbuck
Okay, Carlos beat me to it. I'll need to put a diferent spin on it.
The paralels are uncanny. His was mid-life approaching 50 years angst and I just turned 48 last month. I'll need to read the rest of his story.
Okay how about this. The first to single handed to fish my way for the upper Cortez to Cabo using solar power?
Solar panels and a big electric trolling motor. No fossil fuel. An eco-trip! I make a T-top out of a big solar panel! |
[Edited on 5-8-2007 by neilmac]
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fishbuck
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| Quote: | Originally posted by baitcast
Make sure you have someone explain to you what a westerly is
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Ok, I'll bite. What's a westerly?
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
"Life's a Beach... and then you Fly!" Fishbuck
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bancoduo
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| Quote: | Originally posted by fishbuck
| Quote: | Originally posted by baitcast
Make sure you have someone explain to you what a westerly is
BAITCAST |
Ok, I'll bite. What's a westerly? |
You already said that. Short term memory loss. NOT GOOD! Go to the
medicine man "kimosabe"
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bajalera
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Sounds like a great adventure. But that bit about bartering your fish for the things you need makes me wonder--do you mean with people living on the
coast? Anybody know if they're willing to do that?
\"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest never happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.\" -
Mark Twain
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajalera
Sounds like a great adventure. But that bit about bartering your fish for the things you need makes me wonder--do you mean with people living on the
coast? Anybody know if they're willing to do that? |
bajalera, I think it could still work in some cases. I used to trade a cabrilla or any good food-fish for my laundry done at the Mulege laundromat
many years ago. It sure beat washing them on a scrub board at our beach camp.
I love the barter system. 
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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bajaandy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skeet/Loreto
"Cruising the Sea of Cortez" by Spencer Murray-Revised-1967 |
An excellent book. This book, along with slides and photos from my dad's early trips to Baja are what started the "fever" in me. Alas, I loaned my
copy of this book to someone and I can't remember who I loaned it to.
subvert the dominant paradigm
"If you travel with a man, you must either fall out with him or make him your good friend."
JBL Noel
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Crusoe
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Pampano.......Its truly a small world.....Thats me in the bow of the St.Pierre Dory......Just another of many good Baja adventures. The year was
1974....You were close..... Time goes fast when you are having so much fun........Fishbuck.....Just go for it and dont look back!!! Good things will
hapen to you along the way.Then you can become old and cranky and opinionated as well.
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Pompano
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Crusoe
Pampano.......Its truly a small world.....Thats me in the bow of the St.Pierre Dory......Just another of many good Baja adventures. The year was
1974....You were close..... Time goes fast when you are having so much fun........Fishbuck.....Just go for it and dont look back!!! Good things will
hapen to you along the way.Then you can become old and cranky and opinionated as well. |
Crusoe..Hi! What a way to meet again. The Internet of all places.
Thanks for jogging my poor memory...was that really 1974? Whoa..time flys. I can remember that you guys had to row the dory quite
a bit to find those light winds. Fun times, indeed!
If you are ever near Conception Bay again, please stop by Coyote Bay and visit us. We can recall old times over dinner. Buena suerte with all your
next advenures.
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Crusoe
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Pampano again......After I got thinking a bit I believe the year was 1978 and we did not have any auxillery power. Just two pairs of big heavy oars,
and very strong backs. I974 was another trip entirely.I will have to look at my logs and pics. Thanks again.
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Cypress
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This sounds like a book in the making!
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pargo
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bancoduo
| Quote: | Originally posted by fishbuck
| Quote: | Originally posted by baitcast
Make sure you have someone explain to you what a westerly is
BAITCAST |
Ok, I'll bite. What's a westerly? |
You already said that. Short term memory loss. NOT GOOD! Go to the
medicine man "kimosabe" |
Whats a westerly?
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bancoduo
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| Quote: | Originally posted by pargo
| Quote: | Originally posted by bancoduo
| Quote: | Originally posted by fishbuck
| Quote: | Originally posted by baitcast
Make sure you have someone explain to you what a westerly is
BAITCAST |
Ok, I'll bite. What's a westerly? |
You already said that. Short term memory loss. NOT GOOD! Go to the
medicine man "kimosabe" |
Whats a westerly? |
if u hava camputar try "guggle"
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DENNIS
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Fishbuck ------
Do it. Don't compete with the past or anybody else. Just do it. If you have to go where nobody has been before, do it naked.
Not that it's the same, although in a way it is, in '67 I rode a Honda 50 from Wyoming to California and it never occured to ask if it had been done
before. All I knew was that it hadn't been done by me. Now I can say, "I did it."
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pargo
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Oh come on dude...I know what a westerly is. It's a charter boat out of 22nd street landing. It couldn't possibly have something to do with the
wind...could it?
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bancoduo
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Your wrong!
It's a mariner supply store in Puerto de Puerto, 30 miles east of Ensenada.
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fishbuck
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| Quote: | | if u hava camputar try "guggle" |
okay, I googled:
Fishing Desire, Weather and Boating Safety
Address:http://www.mexfish.com/baja/baja/af030421/af030421.htm
I think I picked up a little from Graham's book too. It's a very strong wind that comes from the west and it comes up very quick with no warning. If
you get caught on open water you could be in trouble.
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
"Life's a Beach... and then you Fly!" Fishbuck
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bancoduo
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I don't know who brought up "westerlies", but I think they were referring to the W to NW headwinds when sailing up the Baja coast in the spring
and summer. Ain't fun. You will probably be late for your date by a few days or weeks.
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BajaWarrior
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I think I picked up a little from Graham's book too. It's a very strong wind that comes from the west and it comes up very quick with no warning. If
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That would be a chubasco, usually out of the south.
Haven't had a bad trip yet....
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