BajaNomad - Has it been done?

Has it been done?

fishbuck - 5-7-2007 at 05:46 PM

Has anyone ever gone by small boat (Gregor Baja 17) from the most northerly point of the Cortez all the way to Cabo single handed and has it been documented?
I'm reading Graham Machintosh, " Into a desert place" and I want to write a book, "Into a desert sea"
I will fish my way all the way there Vangabondos Del Mar style and barter my catch for the things I need to survive.
What do you think?

BajaWarrior - 5-7-2007 at 05:47 PM

There is a guy that tells that story from Balboa Island to Lower Colorado river, did it in like 2 months or something. I Found it tripping around DavidK's website I think...

woody with a view - 5-7-2007 at 05:50 PM

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What do you think?

You have way to much time on your hands.......BUT, GOOD LUCK! :cool:

David K - 5-7-2007 at 05:54 PM

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Originally posted by BajaWarrior
There is a guy that tells that story from Balboa Island to Lower Colorado river, did it in like 2 months or something. I Found it tripping around DavidK's website I think...

That guy is CARLOS FIESTA, the host of BajaExpo.com and frequent guest at my Viva Baja parties... That trip was called the Baja Circumnavigation (careful how you say that!)...

Great story... happened in 2001 or 2... I will get the link to that story and photos, otherwise just go to http://www.bajaexpo.com and find the link to Carlos' Baja Circumnavigation.

David K - 5-7-2007 at 05:55 PM

Carlos Fiesta's Circumnavigation page: http://www.bajaexpo.com/soloadventure.htm

Carlos (Chuck) at my Viva Baja #3:

[Edited on 5-8-2007 by David K]

BajaWarrior - 5-7-2007 at 06:05 PM

Ask and you shall receive!

fishbuck - 5-7-2007 at 06:23 PM

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!

BajaWarrior - 5-7-2007 at 06:26 PM

Your gonna need help Mike, I may be available for such a trip, I'll bring the beer and chips...

fishbuck - 5-7-2007 at 06:38 PM

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Originally posted by BajaWarrior
Your gonna need help Mike, I may be available for such a trip, I'll bring the beer and chips...

Yeah since we'll have electricity we can have an electric cooler to keep the beer cold!

fishbuck - 5-7-2007 at 07:35 PM

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Originally posted by whistler
Canoes,kayaks and sailboats have been there as far as eco-trips.

Yes but that is old technology. We have to make this new and exciting(and expensive) ands besides kayaking and canoeing is too much like work And sailing? Which ever way the wind blows. And no electric beer(fish) cooler!

Iflyfish - 5-7-2007 at 11:58 PM

Go for it!! Follow your dream my man! This is indeed what closing on fifty is about. If you don't do it you will kick yourself later. You already have the boat and time!

I turned friends in Gonzaga bay onto "Living off the Grid" magazine, don't know if it is still in print, after they bailed out the Volvo Brothers who sank their volvo wagon in the rio entering Gonzaga. They had a garage full of booze that they did not drink. They sent me a letter saying that I have ruined their lives, I gulped and felt terrible till I read on. They purchased a twelve volt blender, made marguritas and traded them for fresh fish. Changed their lives!

I purchased a book many years ago by this guy who fished the inland waters of the Baja in his twelve foot car topper with big red ball wheels that he used to launch his boat. He mapped every foot of Baja and noted where one could catch various species of fish. That is one I would redo if my mobility were up to it. What an adventure! Someone else, David K?, will have the title of this book, Fishing the Inland Waters?

Good luck to you. I think you might need a retired Social Worker for this adventure!

Iflyfish

amir - 5-8-2007 at 12:19 AM

fishbuck,
I'll be the first sponsor to step forward and offer you a "prize" for completing this feat - a full chiropractic adjustment. You deserve a good "spinal tune-up" just for having the dream, and you'll probably need one when you're done.

--Amir

David K - 5-8-2007 at 12:20 AM

Ray Cannon, Jerry Klink, Tom Miller, & Gene Kira are the Baja fishing book authors I think are all I have... do any of them sound familiar...

Oh, wait... You are talking about 'The Baja Catch' by Neil Kelly and Gene Kira! Good book, yes!

[Edited on 5-8-2007 by David K]

craiggers - 5-8-2007 at 03:29 AM

You might try a peddle boat. That would be a challenge esp on the Pacific side. Better yet forget the eco angle and get yourself a 50ft cigarette and see how fast it could be done. I have a title for you "48HRS". Awe crap, thats been taken too. If that's too much try swimming it. "A Baitfish Called Wanda"

Bob and Susan - 5-8-2007 at 05:29 AM

you "could" build a bardge out of used wood and power it with solar...

travel from san felipe to cabo...

no one made that trip yet :lol:

[Edited on 5-8-2007 by Bob and Susan]

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Circumnavagation of Baja Peninsula

Pompano - 5-8-2007 at 05:50 AM

It really doesn't matter if one or a million have made these trips. Each person should follow their dreams and go for it!!

These two young fellows from Wyoming did the coastal trip in 1979 in this New England dory. The dory had sailing, rowing, and motoring capabilities.

I first ran across them while out fishing about 20 miles east of Pt. Conception. They later finished their voyage at San Diego.

I also visited with a English youth beach-camped at Burros who sailed a 18ft boat completely around the Baja coast in the mid-70's. He was raising money/pledges for a bone cancer fund and was sponsored by the London Daily Mirror. The next year he hiked the entire peninsula for the same charity and we met him again at our camp near BOLA.

Here is a photo of the Wyoming sailors in their dory.

[Edited on 5-9-2007 by Pompano]

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Skeet/Loreto - 5-8-2007 at 01:11 PM

Fishbuck:
"Cruising the Sea of Cortez" by Spencer Murray-Revised-1967 is an excellent Book to get and read!~
Depending on your experience to date on the Water and Winds of the Cortez would of course figure into your route and time of year.
The local Fisherman along the way is the most valuable source of Knowledge. Good Luck and Calm Seas!!!

Skeet/Loreto

baitcast - 5-8-2007 at 02:04 PM

Make sure you have someone explain to you what a westerly is :lol:

BAITCAST

fishbuck - 5-8-2007 at 02:18 PM

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Originally posted by baitcast
Make sure you have someone explain to you what a westerly is :lol:

BAITCAST

Ok, I'll bite. What's a westerly?

fishbuck

Baja Bernie - 5-8-2007 at 02:51 PM

Forget what went before and go for it! Just include the folks and their life style, which few of these other guys did, and you could be famous also..............Some of it is the trip but most of it is the folks you meet along the way.

The only thing this landlubber can suggest is that you start on the Pacific side so that you can start downhill. Hey! Then go up the Baja side of the Sea of Cortez and then down the Sonora side of the sea............I doubt anyone did that and wrote about it.

We should have talked this weekend! Sorry.

DianaT - 5-8-2007 at 03:01 PM

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

Minnow - 5-8-2007 at 03:10 PM

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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.

Well, here ya go...

neilmac - 5-8-2007 at 03:34 PM

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/

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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]

fishbuck - 5-8-2007 at 05:24 PM

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Originally posted by baitcast
Make sure you have someone explain to you what a westerly is :lol:

BAITCAST

Ok, I'll bite. What's a westerly?

bancoduo - 5-8-2007 at 05:41 PM

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Originally posted by fishbuck

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Originally posted by baitcast
Make sure you have someone explain to you what a westerly is :lol:

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" :no:

bajalera - 5-8-2007 at 11:27 PM

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?

Pompano - 5-9-2007 at 05:30 AM

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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. :yes:

bajaandy - 5-9-2007 at 07:17 AM

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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.

Crusoe - 5-9-2007 at 08:07 AM

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. :tumble:

Pompano - 5-9-2007 at 08:14 AM

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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. :tumble:

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.

Crusoe - 5-9-2007 at 08:21 AM

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.

Cypress - 5-9-2007 at 11:43 AM

This sounds like a book in the making! :spingrin:

pargo - 5-9-2007 at 11:52 AM

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Originally posted by baitcast
Make sure you have someone explain to you what a westerly is :lol:

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" :no:

Whats a westerly?

bancoduo - 5-9-2007 at 12:01 PM

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Originally posted by baitcast
Make sure you have someone explain to you what a westerly is :lol:

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" :no:

Whats a westerly?

if u hava camputar try "guggle"

DENNIS - 5-9-2007 at 12:04 PM

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."

pargo - 5-9-2007 at 12:10 PM

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?

bancoduo - 5-9-2007 at 12:23 PM

Your wrong! :lol:

It's a mariner supply store in Puerto de Puerto, 30 miles east of Ensenada.

fishbuck - 5-9-2007 at 12:27 PM

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Whats a westerly?

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.

bancoduo - 5-9-2007 at 12:45 PM

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. :lol:

BajaWarrior - 5-9-2007 at 03:12 PM

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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 you get caught on open water you could be in trouble.

That would be a chubasco, usually out of the south.

Minnow - 5-9-2007 at 03:33 PM

Fish, ignore Banco. Everyone else here does. He/she/it, has nothing to contribute, only negative nit picking. Not worth a second though. Live your dream, make your adventure.

Just messing

baitcast - 5-9-2007 at 05:01 PM

with you fishbuck,If you got the time go for it,do alot of of research,as far as the westerlys go can be very scary,been in two a short one in gonzaga,and spent the better part of a night on the back side of smith at bola waiting one out,chubasco,s out of the south and westerlys are just that out of the mountains to the west,come up in a matter of min,s,you don,t want to be out in the mid-channel in one of those things,one more thing you can see chubasco,s coming.......not so with a westerly,enough,sounds like fun.
BAITCAST

bancoduo - 5-9-2007 at 06:11 PM

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Originally posted by Minnow
Fish, ignore Banco. Everyone else here does. He/she/it, has nothing to contribute, only negative nit picking. Not worth a second though. Live your dream, make your adventure.

Evidently; you never sailed Cabo to S.Calif. at that time of year "little fish". It also has nothing to do with hurricanes. There can also be a winter Gulf westerly that can be quite treacherous.

FISHBUCK
Just by the nature of your questions makes me think you don't have a whole lot of ocean experience. So I really don't think that a bunch of unknowledgeable ******** should be telling you to go for it.

[Edited on 5-10-2007 by bancoduo]

fishbuck - 5-9-2007 at 06:30 PM

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FISHBUCK
Just by the nature of your questions makes me think you don't have a whole lot of ocean experience.

After reading a little about Corlos Fiesta I know that he had almost no ocean experience. He made it.
I actually have about 100 days off sea time. I've sailed as a deckhand on a 90 schooner ( Spike Afica) from San Diego as far as Marina Del Rey. Also, I worked for the Boy Scouts as a deckhand on their boat Argus for a whole summer with several week long trips to Catalina. A couple of power boat trips where I was captain and many partyboat fishing trips to the islands and off shore.
But I still don't consider that much experience.
Two formal small boat sailing classes with Orange Coast College.

DENNIS - 5-9-2007 at 07:00 PM

Spike Africa? Was that when Bob Sloan had it?

fishbuck - 5-9-2007 at 07:22 PM

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Originally posted by DENNIS
Spike Africa? Was that when Bob Sloan had it?

No Monika Sloan his wife. She inherited it after he died and ran it as a charter boat for several years. She finlly sold it after she married a rich Newport doctor.
The boat runs chaters out of San Diego last I heard.
I had alot of fun sailing that boat.

Carlos Fiesta...

Juan del Rio - 5-9-2007 at 07:34 PM

My friend, Carlos Fiesta (aka Chuck Chambers), did the entire Baja Peninsula from San Pedro to the mouth of the Colorado River. I' sure he would love to talk to you about your adventure! Email him at: carlosfiesta@hotmail.com He loves to talk Baja!!!

He is a great guy. I have known him since High School and can tell you he has not changed at all. He has driven all over the Baja Peninsula for the past 30 years and many trips by private plane as a pilot/small aircaft owner. I can also vouch that he had no prior sea/ocean experience other than one trip around the Palos Verdes Peninsula wth me and a few houseboat trips to Lake Mead/Powell and oh yeah, he hates to work on mechanical things...leaves it to the pros. He found a 19' Fijian Panga with a used 40hp motor, loaded it up with a lot of 5 gallon gas cans, an inflatable boat, sleeping pad/bag, a small amout of food (I'm not sure if he took tools), a new AAA Baja Map and one month experience with a new GPS. A little over 30 days from taking off from San Pedro, our friend, Dave Dennis, picked him up with a boat trailer in San Felipe after he had reached the mouth of the Colorado River. The Panga now resides at Juan y Juan's in San Juanico and is still used for fishing and an occasional surfing expedition to the secret surf spot. Carlos has not been back on the boat since. Go figure.

[Edited on 5-10-2007 by Juan del Rio]

DENNIS - 5-9-2007 at 07:34 PM

Thanks for the update. I knew Bob and that he had passed. Too bad.

By the way.......Are there any poor doctors in Newport?

fishbuck - 5-9-2007 at 07:43 PM

Here's photo of Spike at anchor:

ln01b_b.jpg
Address:http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/dailypix/2004/Dec/20/ln01b_b.jpg

cardo7 - 5-9-2007 at 08:17 PM

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Originally posted by DENNIS
Thanks for the update. I knew Bob and that he had passed. Too bad.

By the way.......Are there any poor doctors in Newport?

cardo7 - 5-9-2007 at 08:22 PM

juan del rio
"The Panga now resides at Juan y Juan's in San Juanico and is still used for fishing and an occasional surfing expedition to the secret surf spot. Carlos has not been back on the boat since. Go figure."

Was that secret spot Punta Santa Domingo?
Tom Merrill

fishbuck - 5-9-2007 at 08:33 PM

Here's a photo of Spike under full sail. With a strong wind this was alot of fun. It's a heavy boat made for open ocean so it needed alot of wind to really get moving.

Untitled Document
Address:http://www.filmboats.com/classic/largeimage.html/Spikeafr.html

fishbuck - 5-9-2007 at 08:36 PM

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Originally posted by DENNIS

By the way.......Are there any poor doctors in Newport?

I think some are just richer than others.

Packoderm - 5-9-2007 at 09:48 PM

As far as looking for something glorious like a very unique Baja adventure, I salute your spirit. Carlos Fiesta's story captured my imagination.

How about kayaking the length of the Colorado river and portaging around the dams and the dry area? Then continue on down to CSL.

Maybe the adventure could involve a bicycle as well for the dry portion of the Colorado?

[Edited on 07/17/2004 by Packoderm]

Skeet/Loreto - 5-10-2007 at 07:06 AM

Fishbuck;
When you go on your Adventure, go with as much Knowledge as you can get- Go for the Adventure!!!
Some suggestions to Help<
Find out what it means "When you Hear Thunder and see no Clouds "Head to the nearest Beach!!!
Find out what a "Whip Storm " is and the Conditions causing that Storm and the Area and time it Occurs.
Find out the Actions of the Birds in the Sea Of Cortez when a Low Pressure Storm is occurring in the Area.

Find a Copy of the "Baja Sea Guide" read it!!

Learn to speak Spanish- Slang Spanish that is!

Repect the Mexican People you meet on your trip; Do not condem them for Catching Fish to sell and make a Living to support their Way of Life.

Skeet/Loreto

Crusoe - 5-10-2007 at 08:06 AM

Fishbuck......Alot of brave and calculating adventures have been pulled off by lots of people. We are lucky when they write about their adventures and share them with us......Some great reads are by a man named Web Childs from San Diego. He sailed a Drascombe Longboat(22' open boat) across the Pacific to Aistralia then through the Torres Straights and accoss th Indian Ocean up into the Red Sea.The book is full of alot of good info. on surviving-fishing alone at sea. He was living in San Diego the last I heard 10 years ago. I dont know if he is still alive or not......Another person who has written books and articles is a man named Ed Gillette. He too is from San Diego and ran a business -Eco Marine- and a Baja guide service there.He paddled a Kayak across the Pacific to Hawai from San Diego. Also many Mexican adventures.Good techniques in his book also...... Also a book still in print titled "Alone at Sea" by a German doctor a Hans Linderman who first crossed the Atlanic in 1907 singlehanded in a Klepper wood frame Kayak (almost the same boat available today from them) is a great inspireing read.I think in the most amazing " Is all been done " department....is of a life gaurd (again a man from San Diego) paddled a surf board south along the Pacific west coast from Vancouver Island to San Diego. He had a land based support group and slept on beaches occasinaly to support him. Quite a feat...... And lastly.......The man who is the name sake of the vessell you sail on, Spike Africa, he never wrote anything. I knew him fairly well and can vouch for the fact that he had more stories than I can even begin to rtemember. All good and true and WILD!!!!! Good luck and watchout for those westerlies!!!!! ++C++

Minnow - 5-10-2007 at 10:31 AM

Crusoe, excellent post.

bajalera - 5-10-2007 at 02:28 PM

Chubascos don't hit you suddenly and without warning, the sky is cloudy for some days before they arrive.

That sudden one sounds more like what Skeet called a "whip storm." A cordonazo de San Francisco--a lash from the belt of St. Francis of Assisi--so called because these storms are likely to arrive around the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi [sometime in October, I think]. Said to be reallyl nasty if you get whipped by it while on a boat in the Gulf.

SKEETER! Where ya been hidin' out, Ol' Darlin' ?

Cypress - 5-10-2007 at 02:42 PM

Go for it.

Any adventure beats the heck out of being the victim of mold, indecision or fear.

If you're going down, go down swinging. :bounce:

fishbuck - 5-10-2007 at 06:35 PM

Well, I'll need to hold off on the boat trip for a while. The Gregor Baja 17 is like $7000 new and I couldn't find any used ones. A 25 hp Yamaha 2 stroke was a good deal at about $2300.
I picked that boat and motor because that's about the biggest truck top boat. Probaly ten grand + for the whole setup.
I'm not giving up just gotta think it through some more.
In the short term I think I'll do some flying this weekend and see if I can put together a little trip to Ensenada and then down to my runway at San Quintin. Hopfully the wind will die down a little.
If I have time (and money) I may try to make it to Punta San Fransquito and maybe Shari's place in Asencion.
That ought to satisfy my adventure needs for a little while.
Anyone want to go?

[Edited on 5-11-2007 by fishbuck]

BajaWarrior - 5-10-2007 at 09:22 PM

FB, we'll be in San Quintin from the 4th of July till the 9th.

And Asuncion from the 17th of August till the 28th.

BW

By the way FB, the Serenidad I heard is closed for the hot season, remember our conversation at the Book Signing?

[Edited on 5-11-2007 by BajaWarrior]

Skeet/Loreto - 5-11-2007 at 06:24 AM

Hey Lera!
Good to see you Postng! Hope all is well You and Yourins!
Virginia is becoming a Horse Women, I a Good Stable Boy. Been thinking about trying an Ultra Lite for some "Adventure". My brother at 77 years is gettin Checked out so that he can fly Jets out of Santa Fe for just the Fun of it.

Sometimes my Hearts go out to these Gameboy Ipod Youngsters that will never know How to Adventure on Their Own.

Keep on Truckin!!

Skeet/Loreto

Skeet....has this been done?

Pompano - 5-11-2007 at 06:46 AM

Skeet...forget the UltraLites. The adventure you really need is to come Up North and let us get you up in a High Prairie hang-glider.

We will strap you in.. you hang there in the harness on the trailer while we pull it down the highway faster and faster...then we let out the cable reel and 'free spool' you out to about one thousand feet...and cut you loose! Now you are on your own and can soar like an eagle on our uplifts...maybe even all the way down to the great state of Texas.

Sometimes the pilots actually return to tell us about the trip. It's great fun.

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DENNIS - 5-11-2007 at 06:48 AM

Catch and release?

Skeet, capt. mike..and others...another flyiing possible..

Pompano - 5-11-2007 at 08:26 AM

With this baby you never have to taxi up to the fuel dock.

A fellow once glided from North Dakota to Nebraska...lots of updrafts.

A couple of fellows once canoed over a thousand miles through a wilderness heaven of rivers and lakes..without being bitten by loose sled dogs or raped by Innuit maidens.

Another father/son team kayaked from Winnipeg, Canada to the Amazon River delta.

There are lots adventures left to take again and again....maybe that's what makes places like Up North and Baja so great. It's where people can still find that 'feeling' of adventure..again. And where the way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them.

It is not the destination, it is the trip. Sometimes it is just time to get the rig packed.. and head 'er out...

"Make voyages!----Attempt them! There's little else." Tennessee Williams

"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go." Tennesse Williams again (hmmm...very similar to above quote...he is trying to tell us something.)

"There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way." Christopher Morley

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Skeet/Loreto - 5-11-2007 at 11:42 AM

Thanks Pomp! You have the right Idea.
The blue Glider is very very similar to the old Army TG-2- My first Glider Ride.
I had been Towing Gliders out of Bishop for about a Month when Walt Applegate told me I had to check out in Gliders. I was Hung for Life. Still can remember going to 14,000 on a Good Thermal, looking South to Whitney, North to Mamouth, East to the White's and South to Death Valley.
What a Thrill--Like cacthing a 55Lb Bull Dorado on Light Tackle.

I live in the Test Flight Pattern of the V-22 Osprey which is Built at Bell Helio. Boy would I love to Fly one of Those!!!

"Watch Tho Airspeed, lest the Ground Rise up and Smite Thee"

Skeet/Loreto

Skeet, capt. mike...you're gonna love this one.

Pompano - 5-11-2007 at 12:53 PM

1949 108-3 Stinson "Flying Station Wagon"...took my first ride with my Dad when I was 5 1/2..back then you counted all those 'half-years'.. cuz they were 'very' important, remember?

He would fly the Stinson to surrounding farms and ranches to make deals on farm machinery after WWII..buying older farm equipment in the southern states and hauling it north to sell due to severe shortages because of the war effort to build tanks, Jeeps, etc.

The interior was all cargo area in back with 2 seats up front..like the back of the 'station wagons' of the day...remember those 'woodies?'

He also put skis on it to fly in the cold, snowy winters of North Dakota and Montana. Once him and a buddy had 2 large mule deer bucks in it and barely cleared some trees on take-off. Guess they were some of the last of the 'fly-by-the-seat-your-pants' pilots. We went some places in that station wagon...Fun times.

[Edited on 5-11-2007 by Pompano]

Cypress - 5-11-2007 at 01:02 PM

Has anybody rode a pogo stick to and from the USA to Cabo? :lol:

Pompano - 5-11-2007 at 01:27 PM

Cypress...that reminds me...I once knew a fellow who flew one of those ultralites Skeet is interested in all the length of the Baja Road.

Why not...sounds like a fun thing to do...plus you could surprise the heck out of Carmelita at her tamale stand!