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Mexico Boating Guide [updated 2023]
This trusted cruising guide covers in great detail both coasts of Baja, the entire Sea of Cortez and all mainland Pacific Mexico to the Guatemala border.

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Mexico Boating Guide [updated 2023]
This trusted cruising guide covers in great detail both coasts of Baja, the entire Sea of Cortez and all mainland Pacific Mexico to the Guatemala border.

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Mexico Boating Guide [updated 2023]
This trusted cruising guide covers in great detail both coasts of Baja, the entire Sea of Cortez and all mainland Pacific Mexico to the Guatemala border.

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WELCOME TO MEXICO BOATING

Cruising Ports, updated, back in stock!

Mexico Boating Guide

– 3rd edition

Mexico Boating Guide [updated 2023] This trusted cruising guide covers in great detail both coasts of Baja, the entire Sea of Cortez and all mainland Pacific Mexico to the Guatemala border. Written by active cruisers & professional mariners for recreational boaters: 398 pages, 450 photos, 300 GPS-accurate charts, concise text covers safe approaches & anchorages, what’s ashore. This guide runs mile by mile, no gaps, no fluff. Includes 2023 Paperwork websites, handy Resource Directory to contact all the marinas, boat yards, fuel docks. GPS Waypoints List, full index. Constantly updated since 1986, “Mexico Boating Guide” is the original “cruisers’ bible” endorsed by Latitude 38 and Cruising World, 5-star rated by PassageMaker.

$79.95 (+ S & H, Tax in CA)

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Authors

Capt. Pat Rains

Capt. Patricia Miller Rains

(U.S. Coast Guard 100 Ton Master) cruised her 28-foot trimaran and a 44-foot Peterson around the Sea of Cortez for 5 years while working as a freelance writer and photographer, later as a yacht-delivery skipper.

Capt. Jim Elfers

Capt. Jim Elfers

Author of “The Baja Bash II” Capt. Jim has skippered or crewed on everything from Tall Ships to racing multihulls, engine-less sailboats to mega sportfishers.

Kathy Parsons

Kathy Parsons

Author of “Spanish for Cruisers” newest edition. Kathy has been a sailor, teacher, corporate trainer and served with the Peace Corp in Nicaragua.

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Marina Costabaja, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico

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Marina El Cid, Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, Mexico

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Careening Cay Marina, Bocas del Toro, Panama

Red Frog Beach Marina, Bocas del Toro, Isla Bastimentos, Panama

Shelter Bay Marina, Colon, Panama

Ship’s Agent Sermar Maritime Agency, Puntarenas, Costa Rica

Marina Bahia del Sol, Jaltepeque, El Salvador

Barillas Marina Club, Jiquilisco, El Salvador

Marina Puesta del Sol, Asseradores, Nicaragua

FEATURED ARTICLE

Not Ready to Unplug Permanently? Go “Commuter Cruising” Instead

– by Capt. Pat Rains

Reasonably sane people do take their well found yachts and go long-distance cruising to exotic lands: this crazy idea sprouted in the 1940s, but really bloomed in the 1950s thanks to inspiring tales of the sea-faring live written by the Hiscocks, the Wests, the Pardeys, Hal Roth and Jimmy Cornell.

In those early days, you had to be incredibly wealthy in order to build or buy and maintain an ocean-cruising yacht, or – like most Americans – you had to sell your home, business and everything else you owned. You had to quit your job or close down your business, which severely limited your flow of funds from then on. You had to provision the boat for years of Spartan living off inhospitable shores. Departure day meant severing communications with family and friends. Life-altering commitments like that discouraged all but the most smitten cases of wanderlust.

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TrawlerFest

Pat Rains invites you to TrawlerFest in Anacortes, WA, May 17 – 21. Pat will present “Mexico’s Little Loop” Sea of Cortez Cruising on May 19, 9-11 am. Then “10 Central American Cruising Stops” May 21, 9-11 am. She’s also leading a “Women’s Roundtable” discussion May 19, 12:30-2:30 especially for women new to cruising. https://www.passagemaker.com/trawlerfest/trawlerfest-anacortes-2022

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