by Rachel | Feb 12, 2024 | Mosaic Voyage Blog, Sea of Cortez 2023
We joined the kid boat fleet at Ensenada Grande on Isla Partida in the Espiritu Santo National Park just north of La Paz on December 20th. We’d been chatting with several kid boats and we were ecstatic to finally meet these new friends. We spent over a week...
by Rachel | Jan 30, 2024 | Mosaic Voyage Blog, Sea of Cortez 2023
On Tuesday, December 19th, we were finally ready to leave Puerto Escondido and head on further south toward friends in the La Paz area. We motored all day in dead air once more to arrive a little before sunset in the roadstead anchorage known as Tambobiche. We had...
by Rachel | Jan 21, 2024 | Mosaic Voyage Blog, Sea of Cortez 2023
Finally, after 5 days of strong north wind in the Sea of Cortez, on December 13th we picked up our anchor in Bahia San Juanico and motored a few hours down the coast to reach Puerto Escondido. With a very short weather window between northers, we decided to settle in...
by Rachel | Jan 16, 2024 | Mosaic Voyage Blog, Sea of Cortez 2023
We beat feet for San Juanico after crossing from San Carlos and spending a night in Santo Domingo because … in what would become the story of our lives for the next month … there was a norther coming that we needed to hide from in a safe anchorage. We LOVE...
by Rachel | Jan 12, 2024 | Mosaic Voyage Blog, Sea of Cortez 2023
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by Rachel | Jan 6, 2024 | Mosaic Voyage Blog, Sea of Cortez 2023
On Wednesday, November 29th, we picked up our anchor around sunrise and motored around the corner to get into the bay at San Carlos. We were hoping to meet up with some potential friends aboard a boat in there, but got the word that they were all sick so we ended up...
by Rachel | Dec 31, 2023 | Mosaic Voyage Blog, Sea of Cortez 2023
After splashing Mosaic at the Guaymas boat yard, we stayed at Marina Fonatur Guaymas for about a week while we finished getting the boat ready to get back out to anchor. We had Brenden’s dad with us for a visit. We left the marina on Sunday the 26th and motored...
by Rachel | Sep 7, 2023 | Colombia 2023, Mosaic Voyage Blog
Our family’s visit to Colombia: June, July, and August 2023 With summer fast approaching in May, and our 6-month Mexican tourist visas expiring soon, we were on the hunt for a summer option for our family of four. We’d spent the previous summer on the boat...
by Rachel | Jun 5, 2023 | Cruiser's Review, Mosaic Voyage Blog, Sea of Cortez 2023
Hauling out in Guaymas map: guiding your way into Guaymas haul out Here’s our experience hauling out in Guaymas. We hauled Mosaic out at Gabriel’s Yard in Marina Guaymas in May 2023. Of course, before we even chose this yard, we did a bunch of research...
by Rachel | Jun 2, 2023 | Mosaic Voyage Blog
By getting a slip at Ensenada’s Hutchison Cruiseport Village Marina, you will gain access to the marina staff’s help to get checked into the country, including getting your FMM and TIP all settled. When we checked into Mexico in Ensenada in November 2021,...