BajaNomad - Sailing question

Sailing question

bajalera - 1-23-2008 at 04:36 PM

Can anyone estimate about how long it might take a good-sized sailboat, powered only by the wind, to go from La Paz to Cabo San Lucas?

Oso - 1-23-2008 at 04:44 PM

I hate to state the obvious... but it depends on the wind. :lol:

DENNIS - 1-23-2008 at 05:09 PM

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Originally posted by Oso
I hate to state the obvious... but it depends on the wind. :lol:

And, what is considered "good sized."

gnukid - 1-23-2008 at 05:20 PM

Normal trips take about 2-3 days under sail to cover the 100 mile trip. First day from La Paz you stay one night in Muertos, one night in Frailes and you arrive in Cabo to anchor out sometime midday. Coming back can be a bit more difficult when el Norte is strong or very weak but in general we expect 10-20mph northerly winds in winter and much less May-October.

comitan - 1-23-2008 at 05:55 PM

Gnukid gives you a cruisers schedule if you were racing going from La Paz as you asked depending on the wind, size, class of boat. I would generalize 16hrs. Of course you would have to take in consideration my experience plus 40 years of Racing, and cruising. Sailing is always unpredictable!!!!!!!!!

BajaRob - 1-24-2008 at 08:04 AM

We made it in just over 16 hours in my Tayana 52 " Windstalker ". Fair winds.

bajalera - 1-24-2008 at 02:13 PM

Should have mentioned that I was curious about statements that English and Dutch pirates hung out at La Paz Bay awaiting the arrival of a trading galleon at Cabo San Lucas, as if they could zip down to CSL from LP overnight.

This doesn't sound feasible, even given a fair wind, and these seem to have been uncommon. The journals of Spanish explorers as well as Brit free-booters give considerable mention to being stuck in a port because of the northwest wind, or leaving and then being forced to come back.

Getting to BC doesn't seem to have been much fun in days of sail.

Pompano - 1-24-2008 at 02:36 PM

bajalera..

If those pirates would have been sailing a Brown 32 trimaran, they could have cut that time down considerably...thus resulting in more BOOTY! We used to water ski behind Johnny Tequila's 'Quetzal'....

vandenberg - 1-24-2008 at 03:18 PM

That would be similar to those Iranian speedboats assaulting our cruiser and destroyers.??

gibson - 1-24-2008 at 03:51 PM

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Originally posted by gnukid
Normal trips take about 2-3 days under sail to cover the 100 mile trip. First day from La Paz you stay one night in Muertos, one night in Frailes and you arrive in Cabo to anchor out sometime midday. Coming back can be a bit more difficult when el Norte is strong or very weak but in general we expect 10-20mph northerly winds in winter and much less May-October.

now that's only if you don't get hijacked by pirates who are waiting to pounce in the next bay and are in 'cahouts' with local officialdom who will extort the bejeezus out of you but just slowly and (act retarded) deliberately ask about these pirates' families, impress that you have all the time in the world, and take photos and threaten official complaints and then you'll be fine. We must all band together to fight these injustices on the high seas and in the city of peace , oh, and today we caught dolphins , whales and snapper. life is good :lol:

comitan - 1-24-2008 at 04:11 PM

gibson

You made my day. :bounce:

bajalera - 1-25-2008 at 04:54 PM

Thanks, you all, for more than I expected to learn about sailing and pirating.

bajadedom - 1-25-2008 at 04:58 PM

The gnukid-comitan banter deserves a thread of its own so I don't have to hunt so hard to laugh my fanny off each day!

CaboRon - 1-25-2008 at 07:16 PM

Thanks Gibson :lol:

CaboRon