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We are proud to announce that we have Mapache merchandise! Check out the Mapache hats and the amazing custom T-shirt design that our friend, Tyler Jeffers, did, by clicking here or on the “Mapache Merch!” page under the menu above. We hope you like the new gear as much as our nephew does. Stay well!

We spent the Sea of Cortés’s hurricane season in Arizona (with quick trips to the midwest and Oregon), while Mapache took a break, out of the water, in Puerto Peñasco’s boatyard.  While in the U.S., we were fortunate to spend the summer with our family and friends.  We house- and pet-sat, we crashed in people’s spare-rooms, weContinue reading “Ready, Set, Go!”

Passage: Sea of Cortez (Mar de Cortés), La Paz to Puerto Peñasco Mapache left La Paz, at the southern end of Baja California, in mid-April and spent six weeks meandering her way north, along the east coast of the Baja peninsula, through the Mar de Cortés, to Puerto Peñasco.  Mapache will stay in Puerto Peñasco throughContinue reading “Are We Human or Are We Sailor?”

We are presently in the Sea of Cortez (Mar de Cortés), heading north to Puerto Peñasco, where we will haul the boat out of the water for the summer.  We will spend the summer visiting family and friends and maintaining the boat.  In the fall, we will set sail south down mainland Mexico and into other CentralContinue reading “The Wind”

This boat log continues with our more recent passages down the west coast of Baja to our initial goal-destination of La Paz. We made it to Baja Sur (the southern state of the Baja peninsula), landing in Bahía Tortugas after Isla de Cedros.  Tortugas is a remote town that marks the halfway point on the desolateContinue reading “A Piece of Cake”

This boat log takes us forward, tracking the first part of our trip from Ensenada to La Paz, Baja, Mexico. We left Ensenada after declaring it our new home.  Over a barbeque of carne asada, quesadillas, and light beer, one of the coaches at the MMA gym, where Rob had been training, suggested that Rob stayContinue reading “Neptune’s Cat”

Passage: Florence, Oregon, to Eureka, California  (including stops in Port Orford, Oregon, Hunter’s Cove, Oregon, and Crescent City, California) (Reminder: We are still working to catch up on previous parts of our adventure. This is a description of part of our U.S.-coast passage, which took place this past fall.) After Florence, Oregon, we sailed overnightContinue reading “Double Takes”

We have been living in Ensenada on Mapache for three months.  We really love it here.  We feel at home, have made good friends, and have become regulars at our favorite restaurants, coffee shops and breweries.  But we have to continue on our journey.  Tomorrow, we untie the dock lines and head out on the next leg of ourContinue reading “Heading: Baja Sur”

Passage: Newport to Florence, Oregon Upon arriving at each port, Rob and I plan our next passage.  We research possible destinations, their distances from us, and their entrance geography.  We estimate how long the passage will take, check weather forecasts, determine the accessibility of their marinas or anchorages, study potential hazards, and review any other information thatContinue reading “Whale Wakes”

Storm Delay in Newport, Oregon Traveling by sailboat is necessarily a transient lifestyle.  Rob and I now do things that many associate with the homeless population, and it is an ongoing social experiment to see how people treat us when they assume we do not have a home.  Many are kind, some overtly avoid interaction, and aContinue reading “The Transient Life”