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Salt & Tar: Ep.321- Makin' Miles
25 December 2025 · 27 min · 45K views · Baja's eastern shore
What this video covers
Garrett and Ruth motor 54.4 nautical miles north along Baja's eastern shore of the Sea of Cortez, targeting Isla San Marcos as a stopover before continuing to Santa Rosalia.2:04 Near-flat calm and seven knots of wind force them to run the engine most of the day; a near-full moon allows a pre-dawn departure to fit the passage into 11 hours of daylight.1:03 Garrett evaluates Red Aviva's new three-blade fixed prop after roughly 40 miles of motoring: he reports noticeably reduced drag with the prop locked in reverse while sailing close-hauled in light air and chop, averaging 2.2 knots under those conditions.7:24 He identifies fairing the trailing edge of the keel and the leading edge of the rudder as the next improvement to clean up water flow to the smaller-diameter prop.4:50 Isla San Marcos carries a two-mile submerged rocky shoal extending south from the island's tip — the depth sounder fails on arrival but reads correctly once anchored in 18.5 feet.13:10 The following morning they cover 18.9 miles to Santa Rosalia, navigating clear of the shoal using Navionics, timing the arrival ahead of a building northerly and a foul tide in the narrow channel.15:57 Santa Rosalia's marina is closed Sundays; they dock in an open slip on WhatsApp coordination.22:40 The crew plans a multi-day weather stop there before the final roughly 260 miles to Puerto Peñasco for a winter refit.12:02
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