Yearly Archives: 2018

5 Easy Pieces – La Paz to Puerto Escondido in the Sea of Cortez

– by Capt. Pat Rains La Paz, Baja California Sur, is a beautiful historic port, a lovely beach resort city and the capital of Southern Baja – found at the south end of the Sea of Cortez. For us yatistas (recreational boaters) La Paz (pop. 200,000) offers so many nautical services (five full-service marinas, five…

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…