Offshore Sailing. A few entries from the travel log of SV Western Grace.

Barra De Navidad

2009-01-05T18:27:00.000-08:00

Jan 3 At anchor La cruz bay of Banderas Mex

Just returned from a quick trip to Barra de Navidad just nort of Manzanillo. This is a small town with 4000 people in normal days but with the holidays it swells to at least 10.000. Mainly Mexican'a from inland with the few gringo snowbirds.

This pictures is from the lagoon where we are at anchor. A peace full place where some of the fishermans still fish the old way with throw nets.

2008-12-18T15:52:00.000-08:00

On our trip down the caost of Mexico near san Blas we got swarmed by bees.

2008-12-18T13:09:00.000-08:00

mexico Sailing Isla isabel

2008-12-18T13:05:00.000-08:00

Dec 10 2008 Early morning at dawn we sighted Isla Isabel in the south. Aproaching the Island we saw sevaerrl sails on the horizon, all departing vessels due to a weather forecast.
We proceeded to the Southern anchorage and anchored all by ourselfs. The crystal clear water making the anchor visable on the bottom. All went for a swim in the warm water. Later in the morning we made it to the beach where a few fisherman where getting ready to go home to San Blas for the lady of Guadeloupe festival.we walked to the concrete building and found that a rechears team was on the island but we only spoke to the cocinia as they all where out. Birds everywhere boobies, (bluefooted and common), giant frigatbirds and many others. Iguanas galore. You can walk up to them within a few feet. They show no fear. This is a very special places, we call it the mini Galapogos. Isla Isabel is located about 40 NM Nw of san Blas Mexico.

Western grace the ship

2008-12-11T17:56:00.001-08:00

Hi there,

This is our first entry in the offshore sailing blog. We are Joanne & John Van Strien. We have been sailing for 7 years on the SV Western Grace, sailing offshore between Canada, Alaska, Mexico and Hawaii. 80.000 NM and counting. This is one of our blogs as we have also the captains log at http://www.worldwidesailingadventures.ca/ We offer charters & blue water sail training.