Author: Pam
We were 30 miles from Cabo at 0800, after an awesome night of great wind and making excellent progress. We made our plan for the day and for arrival. We were hoping to arrive in time for the final Baja Ha Ha awards party to at least complete our attempt to participate. We cleaned up the cabin, continued to read Lionheart (we have one chapter left) and took a shower. The day was looking good until the wind died. It took us ten hours to sail those 30 miles. The engine was still overheating and we could only motor every three hours for an hour or less at a time, we had to work with our 1-3 knots of wind. We pulled in to the anchorage just as the sun was going down, we couldn’t believe it was about to get dark. We had turned the engine on for our approach, hoping it would make it. We slowly searched for where to anchor, Pam was on the bow on look out for anchor lights and other boats. Yikes, it got dark very quickly. We finally spotted an anchor light and headed in that direction, to quickly discover there were boats anchored without their anchor light turned on. Ok, the depth worked, time to drop the anchor before we run into an already anchored boat. Phew, we are finally here, Cabo San Lucas, 22°53N 110° 02W.
We had heard on the radio earlier the party was at 1800, which is exactly the time we arrived. So, now how are we going to get there? We tried to call for a water taxi, with no success on the two channels we knew might be monitored. Come to find out later they monitor channel 14. Pam was not comfortable going into an unknown marina after dark in our dinghy. When we thought we were out of options a call came over the VHF for Tournesol from Western Grace offering us a dinghy ride to shore. Our arrival in Cabo was graciously acknowledged when we arrived at the awards ceremony. We were the last to arrive, but we were thrilled to be here and looking forward to resources to get our engine issues resolved. We went to dinner with our friend Jan that evening at the Fish House and had a lovely relaxing evening on land.
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