Hi people
I've bought a boat in the US and spent the last 6 months fixing it up. Planning on sailing back to OZ and kiting along the way as much as possible.
The US is a great place to buy a sailing boat at the moment, they're just about giving them away. Don't try and fix one up there though, if you have to pay anyone to do anything they want a king's ransom for doing Sweet FA and the quality of the work is about par with what you'd expect from a third world country. I should qualify this and say, IMHO given my experiences in Southern California (Newport Beach and Marina Del Rey).
Anyone know where/when the time and place to go kiting in Mexico is?
I'm currently in Ensenada - Baja California - on my boat and will be sailing south in January just wondered if anyone has any info/stories to tell of kitesurfing the West coast of Mexico/Guatemala/Costa Rica.
Cheers.
Good winds.
J-P
Well thanks for letting us know !
As if we F***king care !!!
No.....seriously,great to see someone "living the dream" !!
Very inspirational .
Nice boat !
Good luck.
yeah ya Bustard, go on live the dream see if we give a schit.
I must know about 6 couples or familys doing the same thing with cats not mono hulls, selling up an cruizing off into the sunset and escaping the system,your all feral low life's and I am extreamly jealous......One day
How much does that geeser walking in front of the camera cost??
Also, where are these cheap boats located? Know any good classified sites?
For this boat $75K plus another 50K to add on all the cruising gear - solar panels, HF radio, wind vane steering, etc and fixing up the usual problems a boat of this age has, ie replace batteries, water tanks, plumbing, wiring, etc......
Ok...so it's not exactly a give away but have some seen some bargains while in the marinas here. 27' Catalina for $1500 and a 36' Islander for $6000. Being boats they're always gonna be bottomless pits for throwing money into but at least it starts out cheap.
Don't know where the bargains are on the net, the brokers mainly list there and are too savvy to show what sellers are really prepared to go down to. Try Yachtworld.com
For the old geezer, 20 bucks...just to make sure he goes to a good home. He runs on about 2 gallons of scotch a week and tells lawyer stories non stop but never tells the same ones twice which is quite something for an 80 something year old.
Crew? Marriage? Ummm.... can you sail? fillet an eel? tie a bowline one handed? No? Neither can my current crew
Oh well!!
La ventana is meant to be great but I heard the wind doesnt pick up until later in the season.
I kited cozumel in may and that was fantastic. Its on the carribean side and again the winds wont be great at the moment.
You should go home via portland, hood river in the columbia river gorge! i just got back from there and the only reason I left was immigration made me.
The best place to ask for advice is on the nwkite.com forum. There are guys from la ventana, cozumle and instructors from the gorge who go to mexico for the 'off season' who skulk on that site.
Good luck!
Great, and I just start to feel good about having a snow trip at the end of the week, waterski holiday planned for a month or so, and a new kite on the cards, and all of a sudden i feel like a begger...
My dream, and someone else is living it! Safe travels!
I don't know about this time of year. You are obviously having a good surf at mile marker 73 (just north of Ensenada)
San Quinten (- about 200km south) labelled by 5 extint volcanos and a large lake / lagoon has some awesome kiting. There is a tricky channel in and I don't know if your boat would fit. Good local restaurants around and flat water. (Some reeds in the one area keep the water really flat).
Further south, there is the world famous, (but unknown to many ;) - World's best wavesailing spot (as voted by windsurfers) -- it is called Punta san carlos. There is an over priced kite tourist facility called solosports and cheap camping on hard rock with longdrops. Not much else besides uh big wind and big waves blowing slighly cross offshore over a peninsuala... insane setup, particularly if you are natural surfer. Slingshot / Flexifoil guys go there a lot - terrible road (which you don't have to worry about)
Going down to the southern end of Baja you should also look up scorpion bay... insanely long wave and we had a good kite there. (Google scorprion bay for photos) - wave wraps around hree points...
Kitesurfing around Cabos san lucas is crap, but just around the corner of the baja pinunsula into the sea of Cortez, there is some good spots this time of year.
Have fun, and enjoy the awesome food!
