bajalera
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Sailing question
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?
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I hate to state the obvious... but it depends on the wind.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Oso
I hate to state the obvious... but it depends on the wind.
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And, what is considered "good sized."
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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.
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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!!!!!!!!!
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We made it in just over 16 hours in my Tayana 52 " Windstalker ". Fair winds.
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bajalera
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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.
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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'....
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That would be similar to those Iranian speedboats assaulting our cruiser and destroyers.??
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| Quote: | 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
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Thanks, you all, for more than I expected to learn about sailing and pirating.
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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!
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Thanks Gibson
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