Sailing the Baja Coast and All He Wants is Tacos and Beer [Ep 61]
10 de julho de 2026 · 20 min · 513 visualizações · San Juanico
O que este vídeo aborda
Sailing the Baja Peninsula's Pacific coast, Into the Mystic makes three consecutive 50–60-mile day passages — Asuncion to Punta Abriojos to San Juanico — each requiring a pre-dawn departure to beat fierce afternoon winds and swells that consistently exceed PredictWind's 1–2 meter forecasts, reaching over 3 meters by early afternoon.▶ 1:03 The crew develops a fixed rhythm: anchor up before first light, motor out avoiding crab pots near town, sail the calm morning window, and arrive before noon.▶ 3:30 Abriojos delivers a rolly, sleepless night; surf too large for the dinghy blocks any shore access.▶ 6:51 San Juanico, a well-known surf and Baja 1000 dirt-bike town, offers a calmer anchorage and a sandy dinghy landing.▶ 8:53 The crew waits two days there for a diesel delivery, filling jerry cans at the town gas station.▶ 14:43 Tim twists his knee landing the dinghy on the beach; locals drive him back to the water.▶ 16:30 The app No Foreign Land supplies exact coordinates for a clifftop bar, where the crew meets Roberto and his daughter Estefany, who later shines his truck headlights on Into the Mystic so the crew can find the boat in the dark.▶ 18:40 Departing early enough to complete 60-mile legs before afternoon conditions deteriorate is the central lesson of this Baja coastal passage.
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