Sailing to Cabo San Lucas | Baja California Sur | Sailing Avocet

After a short but memorable stay at Bahia Santa Maria, we felt refreshed to continue our journey south. With our friends on Kessel just a bit ahead of us, we sailed off the hook and got into the wind line around 11, setting our course for Cago San Lucas. Our sails filled with a 15 knot breeze pushing us down the rocky coastline. It was a wonderful day of fair winds and following seas. If only it had stayed that way through the night. Wow, that was a big one. Oh, oh gosh. Okay, this is our last sail on the outside of Baja. Tonight I'm gonna go on my night watch first, so I'll probably go till probably 10 or 11 or maybe midnight tonight and then Marissa will take on. She'll probably go from midnight to 5 or 4 and then I'll take on again in the morning. Got another decent chunk of the day that we're sailing, but hopefully we'll be getting into Cabo around 2 or 3 tomorrow. Hopefully. It was midnight on February 14th, 2023. The constellations of Leo and Cancer were above us, sparkling bright, but the phosphorescence in our wake gave the night sky a run for its money. Peter was the first to wish me a happy birthday over the radio, and in that same moment, shooting stars fell across the sky and the swell broke into a glistening cascade of whitewash. I'd say sustained 27 guessing into 35 pretty much all night. I'd still blown about 20, but we knew it was gonna be bad. We basically had a week solid in front of us of a big northwesterly, so we was kind of either wait in the Santa Maria for a week or longer or just take it, you know, as it is. And like I just said, the wind was pretty high, so it was just a long night. Nothing went wrong, nothing broke, nothing. Everything's fine. We're about 12 miles away from Cabo San Lucas. It is Marissa's birthday today, Valentine's Day, so hopefully get in sooner than later. We can get ourselves ashore, get ourselves a stiff drink and forget about last night. Birthday girl's cute. We're about six miles away from Cabo San Lucas, and that means that this is the last little bit of the Pacific side of Baja that we're gonna be on. Pretty crazy. Today's Tuesday, and we left Ensenada on Tuesday. That's pretty cool. One week later, we made it to Cabo. We want to shower, but we're super sweaty, and my hair is gross, and I want to take a birthday shower. So we make it here all the way without motoring? We did. We made it all the way here without motoring. Oh yeah, I don't want to spend very long here. Nice. All right, so the first place we set our hook, we just sat here for a minute and just decided it's not the right spot for us. So we're gonna move to a spot closer to where Chris's brother actually anchored way back when they were here. Thank God they have the coordinates on their website so we can cross reference that. Yeah, so there's no shame in pulling your hook after you set it. You got to do it safe. All right, so this is our new spot. We are anchoring in 30 feet instead of 70, so it's a little more comfortable. And we're next to some beautiful boats, which always makes us feel a little bit better. With the hook set, we didn't hesitate to launch Winglet and make our way to shore to rendezvous with a Kessel crew who had gotten a slip since their dinghy was rendered useless after the incident in the last anchorage. I still had a few hours left of my birthday, so we set out to find the biggest margarita I could get my hands on. The mission was accomplished. Although we are glad we made the brief stop in Cabo, we were quickly reminded why we wanted to bypass it entirely. But that story is coming up next on Sailing Avocet.