DaFever's travels: Up the Coast of Baja

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We left San Jose del Cabo at 4:30 AM and headed out around the end of Baja at Cabo and the long overnight run to Magdalena Bay, we arrived about 3:30 PM and I didn't want to waste the daylight so I continued on to San Juanico for the night then on to Bahia Asuncion the next night, the plan was to go to Bahia Santa Maria near Turtle Bay but we passed Turtle Bay at 2:00PM so me not being one to waste daylight I decided to go on up to Isla Cedros for the night, when we got there the weather had deteroiated and the anchorage had been swept clean of sand bottom by the last hurricane, we were not in 50' of water dropping to 12' like the chart said, we were in 176' of water and no place to anchor so rather than back track in the dark for 4 to 5 hours we continued on thru the night----well boy howdey the weather got worse, we were running in 6' to 7' seas at 6 to 7 seconds and 20 to 25kt winds at sundown and I don't know how big the seas got because we couldn't see them in the dark but we kept dropping off of waves and hitting hard, twice we took green water over the bow and it washed up the windshield and down the decks, it took our electric cord overboard and good thing it was screwed onto the socket on the boat because about 14 hrs later after sunrise and the seas settled down we spotted it draging alongside and we pulled it back in, we also picked up all of the broken dishes and cleaned up the mess from stuff that fell out of the cupboards and fell off of the walls. We pulled into Bahia San Quintin a little after 3PM and went to anchor and the chain would not come out, it took 1/2 an hour to pull the anchor chain out of the locker below and straighten it out because the rough seas had tossed 1000lbs of chain around like flipping pancakes in the locker and tangled it up.
After the rough night last night we decided to make this a short night, get up early and see if it was good enough weather in the morning to go on to Ensanada or go back to bed. The seas were good and we headed to Ensanada, when we got in Seth (my crew) got on the internet and found out that his parents were still in LA so he caught the bus in the morning to the border and then took Amtrak to LA so he could hitch a ride home to northren Calif. with his parents.
I had the boat hauled that morning and it should be back in the water Wed. so I can head back to the land of the living with good internet, cell phones, good grocery stores, good coffee, and I speak the language, LAND HO --- I CAN HEAR SAN DIEGO CALLING!!!

Looks pretty good after just pressure washing it.

Almost ready to paint

Almost three years since last bottom paint.

Blocking boat to put it on stands.

OOPS

Getting hauled out

Coming into Ensanada

Tuna---all told we caught 1 Darado and 3 Bonita for two days of fishing.

THIS does NOT look good! Just past Turtle bay we had bumpy seas, rain and the sun was setting, we were going to anchor at Cedros Island just ahead but we found out that the last hurricane had washed the sand out of the bay so we had to continue on thru the night, the seas got bigger and the wind picked up to 30 to 40+ knots for the next 10 to 12 hours.