On this episode of Onboard Lifestyle we pick up where we left off in Ensenada, Mexico as we travel down the Baja Peninsula. We cover the first three legs as we make our way south down this remote and rugged region of the World. Come back next week to see what the next legs have to offer...see you then!

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previously on onboard lifestyle

we leave san diego early to make the 65

nautical mile run to ensenada mexico

the crew is screened by the health

department before we could leave the

boat to check in with the port captain

lynn finally gets her wish my mom is so

excited it's all she can

talk about

and the crew feasts on various street

tacos with no complaints

emma saves an injured bird that nearly

drowned

no

don't get too close to that poor guy

and we make the final connections to our

autopilot in preparation to make the

long journey down the outside of the

baja peninsula

the girls head into town to reprovision

basic

emma finally finds a full-size violin

and we depart ensenada and set the

autopilot to take the helm as we sail to

our next destination

baja california is a rugged 840 mile

long peninsula that extends southeast

from california

once you leave san diego there are only

two ports that have marinas

your first stop ensenada and your last

cabo san lucas

most everything in between is a series

of roadstead anchorages on the protected

side of a point or a barren island

there are very few all-weather

anchorages so this keeps most sailors

moving swiftly and making big strides

when the weather is in their favor

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the first leg from san diego to ensenada

was covered in our last video so we will

be picking up from there

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well

all nighter

it wasn't so bad it was just so

uneventful i know it's just like

it's doldrums around here at night it's

glass smooth out here but but the bonus

who's your new best friend

what audiobook no you're autopilot

we've been running the autopilot it's

our first real test

um

it's been

running now it's been working flawlessly

actually 20 hours um i think that's also

because we've had very

very calm conditions yeah well if it was

rough i wouldn't be using it but

okay we're

10 miles from uh

heading our way around a volcano

come on

and then uh probably 20 miles from uh

setting the hook in san coutine

daylight should be about 40 minutes away

here we are on the approach to

san contain

this little bit of mountain top here in

the background

we hook around that into a massive bay

once we round the point it's about three

miles to get into the bay

the bay's got to be honored five miles

across

plenty of room

supposed to be a little bit of wind

tonight so it'll be a good place to hide

out

wish we had a little bit of wind right

now but we don't

it's how it is around here boy it just

seems to die off in the middle of the

night

okay right here that's uh

the extinct volcano isla martin

we're gonna cut right through there

we're probably

15 miles away now

just a few hours

but

boy nice to have the sun up it was a

dark night

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it is our last night here it's kind of

as disappointing because we were really

hoping to explore this area a little bit

but it's been so windy

that we were kind of stuck inside doing

some chores taking care of some business

yeah i'm getting caught up on everything

and but we did have a really nice meal

last night

because teal caught that bonito on the

way in it was this big

it was like oh come on give me a little

credit so lynn has the easy part

yeah

i fought this sucker

all she has to do is

kill it clean it and cook it

look at this look at these nice fillets

man beautiful

now i'll make a fish do out of the head

not bad some waste but no let me use i

want to catch a halibut with some of

this really yeah cut me off a couple of

those chunks

not gonna say no

it was enough food that we fed ourselves

we gorged on this fish and it was enough

to share with other bugs in the

anchorage yes so we want to paint

forward because we've had so much luck

with having all these generous fishermen

give us a portion of their bounty that

we decided to share ours as well there's

two boats right now

at anchor with us

there is manxi

who we shared it with and then another

boat that came in and

we didn't get a chance to meet up with

them but um

yeah

maybe next stop maybe next stop we're

actually trying to give compass a little

bit of extra love because we are so bad

it turns out we missed his birthday a

couple days ago

but in our defense

we were on underway oh and our defense

we miss it every year

not every year well i think we missed it

last year

no we did that

i'm not sure anyway he'll get a little

extra treat in his kibble well one more

extra kibble one more extra count

happy birthday to

you

so we're just kind of taking it in

tonight before uh we set off again

tomorrow it's going to be a hundred and

135 miles straight shot from san contain

to the north anchorage of south carolina

central's island isla

so that should be fun

um

and it's gonna be a nice night right

yeah it's gonna it should be the moon's

uh get a little brighter as long as they

don't have the fog we woke up to

big fog this morning it didn't burn off

till noon

so hopefully we'll wake up tomorrow

morning it'll be just

clear and we'll be ready to go beautiful

and i'm looking for some warmer temps

guys because this is

ridiculous chasing the sun i'm chasing

the sun we all are

good morning

and it is departure day again this is

already starting out to be a beautiful

day

a little bright

but no fog

and uh it's gonna be um

135 nautical miles down to isla cedro so

we are all pumped and ready and excited

the passage from canteen to cedros was

mild with very little wind

our choice was to wait for more

favorable conditions at anchor for four

more days or just make the run to cedros

we decided to make the passage under

sail with one of our two myanmar engines

running to keep basic moving efficiently

towards the island

at 2000 rpms we can push through the

water at around four knots burning less

than .5 gallons per hour

we alternate the engines every six hours

over the course of the next 33 hours

fuel is hard to get and expensive along

this coast so conservation is important

okay we're coming across the

but he has a badass gin vagano

we're about

45 50 miles off shore right now

heading over to isla sedros

yeah

getting close to

making it through the night again we've

been kind of

switching off and on

uh ships

two to three hours each kind of working

our way through the night

and it hasn't been too bad

we're uh

without the wind the sails are up but

they're just flopping so we're in over

rush the daily lights are still an hour

away and we're only

27 miles to cedros

yay

okay make some coffee

we need it

as the sun rose

it was a welcome sight to see isla

sedros appearing so close

but this is a large island that seemed

to creep towards us at a glacial pace

okay

something happened this is uh we thought

this was going to be a very uh pleasant

passage and we were in the home stretch

until

we heard a noise

just all of a sudden

it sounded like a gasket to me lynn was

inside i was at the helm and this engine

just started free spinning or something

just unusual noise we don't know it

sounded like the propeller fell off we

are literally about 10 miles from the

anchorage off of cedro's island so we

just shut everything down i'm gonna poke

a camera down there and see what's going

on we still have a one functional engine

but

man we are

750 miles from a haul out facility at

this point

hey don't go to worst case scenario i

know

fingers crossed crew

fingers crossed i don't see your fingers

crossed

you ready for this i'm ready okay

boy the water's clear i can tell you

that should we just get in the water

um not yet let me uh

let me see what this shows

and then you'll reassess

well no in a second here let me uh play

it back right here

that was a big sigh come on come on

look at that

it's a blade

we hit seaweed a big patch of seaweed is

on it that's it that's it

huge clump yes

that's what it

is this sounded worse

that's it

i told you don't don't leap to the worst

case scenario okay

let's go i'll fix that when we get in

okay so we're back at it honestly

this is uh

we love this area and we hate this area

the last time we were here

the last time we came through we

actually

we had a whale and it put an eight-foot

crack

in our trimaran

so

that was that

you know what

we actually anchored right off of here

right there right there that's where we

had to anchor it to assess and get the

water out of the hole and then we had to

go into turtle bay to do the repairs

remember that how i do remember it i

think we have some pictures of that

so pretty here but let's get out of here

before something else happens i know

all right let's get out of here

it was still early enough in the day and

our plan to anchor on isla sedros north

anchorage changed a light breeze had

come up from the northeast so it was an

easy call to keep pushing another 20

miles to anchor on the south side of the

sedros village breakwater

this anchorage would be much calmer for

me to dive on that fouled prop besides

the crew is looking to rest and take it

easy before the next leg to bahia

tortuga

what's the depth

okay i'm just dropping it right here

it feels like it grabbed huh

so much work to get

all for two minutes

in the water

oh my goodness

much warmer

no it's cold oh

oh my gosh

so

so

so was it just how the kelp was tangled

in the sail drive that caused that like

a long rope strand of kelp and it just

had wound way up on it

thank you

no thank you

okay i think i think it's time to relax

i'm not saying anything you look cute

graceful

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you're a lonely sailor

and your soul is made

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and my heart is made of dust and gray

and spoils

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so i said hey don't

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don't

absolutely

love

that egg creek last night

that anchorage this acreage

i mean we drifted six feet on our anchor

it was just just

calm i wish we could stay a little bit

longer i know we we would say another

day but this is a port of entry and if

we did we would have to go into town and

check in with the port captain we called

him by vhf radio and he said not a

problem spend the night go in the

morning but any longer now we'd have to

fill off some paperwork so

you guys uh ready to hit uh tortuga

emma's anxious to jump in the water for

the first time it's clear you guys i can

actually get in now without being scared

we're in uh anchored in 17 feet of water

and you can lean over and look at the

bottom it's what do you think

awesome you notice how teal's voice gets

higher the more excited he gets

it's not that

high so excited to swim i know you want

to jump in before we go

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