Costa Rica has some beautiful beaches. Jenee and I had this one to ourselves for a little swim. Just us and the camera crew, key grip, best boy ... More to come!
Jenee and I are checking out a "fixer upper". This is missing half a boat - who knows, a little paint ...
Jenee walked outside and caught this moment - nice work. Costa Rica works hard to manage the revenue from the tourism attraction of resort hotels, while still maintaining the small fishing villages. We might look upon these areas and see shacks and poverty, but it works for generations of families. Not everyone is chasing the dollar, bravo for them.
Now this is what I call an idyllic anchorage. This is Bahi Ballena (Bye-yea-na Bay), and you can see Jungle amongst the pangas and larger boats. Great little place as we took this picture from the Ballena Bay Yacht Club - bar really. We met manager Federico - great guy, loves his country.
We've arrived safe and sound to Costa Rica - Golfo (Gulf of) Nicoya. I didn't want to scare anyone or jinx us prior to making the 6 day sail straight from Mexico, past Guatemala, El Slavador and Nicaragua. The fact is we needed to cross one of the most difficult bodies of water in the world - Mexico's Gulf of Tehuantepec (Tay-want-eh-peck). In a nutshell this is one area in Central America where the Sierra Madre mountains are at their lowest point between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific. All the winds from the Caribbean funnel through and can blow at gale force (30-50 knots) offshore, so the standing advice is to sail "one foot on the beach, one foot on the boat" - basically as close to the beach as you can get without hitting it. That get's challenging in it's own right, so we're happy to have met Steve and George at the Marina Chahue (Cha-way) in Huatulco. They both surveyed the weather for us and Steve sent us daily weather updates as we took the direct route south. Here I am on the stern BBQ-ing dinner, so at least we're not in a panic. We crossed another, somewhat less challenging area, Golfo de Papagallo, Costa Rica. Again our man Steve provided timely weather updates and humor; "Todays weather; mushroom clouds and 10.000 degrees! No wait that's Marshall Island nuclear test site, my bad". Our thanks to Sailtahoe Steve.
Costa Rica has some beautiful beaches. Jenee and I had this one to ourselves for a little swim. Just us and the camera crew, key grip, best boy ... More to come!
Jenee and I are checking out a "fixer upper". This is missing half a boat - who knows, a little paint ... 
Jenee walked outside and caught this moment - nice work. Costa Rica works hard to manage the revenue from the tourism attraction of resort hotels, while still maintaining the small fishing villages. We might look upon these areas and see shacks and poverty, but it works for generations of families. Not everyone is chasing the dollar, bravo for them.
Now this is what I call an idyllic anchorage. This is Bahi Ballena (Bye-yea-na Bay), and you can see Jungle amongst the pangas and larger boats. Great little place as we took this picture from the Ballena Bay Yacht Club - bar really. We met manager Federico - great guy, loves his country.
We've arrived safe and sound to Costa Rica - Golfo (Gulf of) Nicoya. I didn't want to scare anyone or jinx us prior to making the 6 day sail straight from Mexico, past Guatemala, El Slavador and Nicaragua. The fact is we needed to cross one of the most difficult bodies of water in the world - Mexico's Gulf of Tehuantepec (Tay-want-eh-peck). In a nutshell this is one area in Central America where the Sierra Madre mountains are at their lowest point between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific. All the winds from the Caribbean funnel through and can blow at gale force (30-50 knots) offshore, so the standing advice is to sail "one foot on the beach, one foot on the boat" - basically as close to the beach as you can get without hitting it. That get's challenging in it's own right, so we're happy to have met Steve and George at the Marina Chahue (Cha-way) in Huatulco. They both surveyed the weather for us and Steve sent us daily weather updates as we took the direct route south. Here I am on the stern BBQ-ing dinner, so at least we're not in a panic. We crossed another, somewhat less challenging area, Golfo de Papagallo, Costa Rica. Again our man Steve provided timely weather updates and humor; "Todays weather; mushroom clouds and 10.000 degrees! No wait that's Marshall Island nuclear test site, my bad". Our thanks to Sailtahoe Steve.
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I think that "fixer-upper" just might be in my price range. Think Jungle's up for the competition?
Great pictures!
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