Now that you have spent a couple of years aboard a great
boat, it sounds like you are ready for an expansion of your cruising horizons. A great beginner
cruise with lots of company if you you are nervous about heading farther afield alone would be the Ba-Ha-Ha
cruise that leaves
San Diego around Nov 1. Check the Latitude 38 web site for exact dates and list of
events. There are usually a fair number of folks new to the cruising life who make the trip down the
Baja coast and enough experienced cruisers to help out with
advice along the way. Just remember that you have to return up the coast at some point. There was a book out years ago called the
Baja Bash which chronicles the trip 'up hill' that you should read before heading south beyond Ensenada. As you haven't done a lot of coastal
passage making yet, I would avoid heading north until springtime as
weather can be nasty north of Pt Conception between now and late spring 2011. While it is doable, the
weather cells roll down the coast with shorter and shorter intervals between them and places to hide are not too plentiful on some stretches. Welcome to you both... CF is a great place to ask questions and learn from others experience. Just remember, the
advice is worth exactly what you pay for it... cheers, Capt Phil