The Adventure Travelers sail their boat down the coast of Mexico, stopping along the way in some of the most beautiful ports. The stories covered in this sailing blog takes the readers on the journey. If you ever wanted to go to Ensenada, Turtle Bay, Asunción, Bahia Santa Maria, Mag Bay, Puerto Los Cabos, Los Frailes, Bahia de los Muertos, Balandra Cove, La Paz, Mazatlan, Isla Isabela, Matanchen Bay, Chacala Bay, La Cruz and Puerto Vallarta.
Sailboat Delivery Captain I had just received my U.S. Coast Guard 100 Ton Masters Captains License and was offered this job to completely outfit, test, commission and eventually deliver this amazingly beautiful Island Packet 485 52′ yacht. Becoming a USCG Sailing Captain First, before I became a USCG Captain, I had to have the sea […]
How an Island Packet and Seaward Yacht Sailboat is Built If you’ve been reading this blog, then you know that we sailed across the Pacific Ocean to French Polynesia (The Marquesas, The Tuamotu’s & the Society Islands) then Hawaii and back to San Diego, CA in our 1996, Island Packet 37 cutter rig sailboat. When […]
Update – The Adventure Continues… Hey everyone! A lot has happened since we first began this blog, so let’s begin with our latest update. First, we have to apologize that we haven’t completed the sailing part of our blog. We will continue to update that portion of our blog until we are up to the […]
Sailing – Mexico – Mainland by Sea and Land Mazatlan The wind and waves began to pick up in the morning just prior to pulling into Marina Mazatlan. If you’ve never sailed into this harbor (like us), it’s a little tricky when there are waves breaking in the small bay. We read in our cruising […]
Sailing – Mexico – Sea of Cortez Puerto Los Cabos I believe in planning ahead and I knew even before we departed San Diego, that we would want to have a few nights on land after being at sea for so long. In my past professional life I traveled a lot and as a […]
Sailing – Mexico – Baja Coast Departing San Diego “What’s going on with this thing? Why isn’t it working?” Probably not the comments you want to come from your husband 20 minutes before you depart on a 10,500 mile sailing adventure. I’m pretty excited to get out of port but in my haste, I […]
Our Story Begins Want to Go on a Sailing Adventure? We, (Michael and Melissa of The Adventure Travelers) planned for over ten years and finally made the leap. We sold our house and moved into a rental (three years prior to leaving our home port of San Diego, California), we sold one of our cars, […]
