S4, Ep51 Sailing Couple Stops Resisting and Starts Living — A Mindset Shift on the Water
11 January 2026 · 16 min · 295 views · Bahía de San Quintín
Sailboat Dragonfly with crew on deck in calm waters
What this video covers
Tim and his partner, sailing a Flicka 20, decide to abandon their southward passage to Cabo San Lucas and return north to Ensenada after weather-related delays in San Diego and Ensenada put them behind schedule.▶ 11:12 Anchored in the Bay of San Quintin, the crew spends the day refuelling the boat using seven and a half gallons of fuel from jugs and practising dinghy deployment and retrieval without additional crew assistance.▶ 0:45 They explore the local estuary by dinghy, investigate a catamaran beached near the shoreline, and visit the crew of the Pacific Sea Crab Flicka, Sailing Vessel Dragonfly.▶ 7:54 The decision to turn back stems from a realisation that pushing to meet their original timeline compromises safety and enjoyment.▶ 13:20 By choosing to head north, the crew plans to stop at locations they previously skipped during their overnight transit from Ensenada.▶ 12:27 The experience reinforces the necessity of building significant schedule buffers into long-distance cruising plans to accommodate unpredictable weather and mechanical delays.
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