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What is Sailing without something breaking?! In this episode of Sailing Sitka, we sail from Puerto Escondido to Agua Verde but not without some unnecessary breakages and loses... Subscribe if you enjoy!

After sailing from San Diego to Cabo with Nicky and Peter, the four of us now sail north up the Sea of Cortez. We follow writer John Steinbeck’s sailing route as described in his 1940 book, The Sea of Cortez, to see how much has changed, and stayed the s...

We continue our journey from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, aboard SV Resolute, making several stops along the way for the Baja Haha flotilla to regroup. Highlights include Bahia Tortugas (Turtle Bay), Bahia Santa Maria (the Baja Pacific Coast side o...

We join new friends, Peter and Nicky, aboard their boat, SV Resolute, to sail from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas with the Baja Haha flotilla. And, yes, we’re visited by orcas (killer whales) and UFOs while sailing down the coast of Baja California. Part 1 ...

This episode opens with Calico Skies being fitted into a travel lift. She's being raised up and out of the water and onto solid ground at the Cabrales Boat Yard in Penasco Mexico. Right away we can tell the bottom is not in great shape and since we haven't...

This episode opens with Calico Skies leaving the dock in San Carlos after the hurricane has cleared out. Skies are sunny and clear and we set out on a 24 hour passage headed north west to get us back towards the area we were before the storm but also a bit...

This week's episode pretty much sums up boat life: Highs and lows in beautiful places, broken stuff, and unforgettable magic moments all mixed in between! We run into some tricky problems with the generator, which we depend on quite a bit these days for t...

It feels like we just landed on MARS! After our 4 day passage from Puerto Vallarta, we finally make landfall in one of the most alien like environments we've ever encountered in 13 years of sailing around the world. It's so wild that we can spend the las...

We have been contemplating whether to sail across the pacific to New Zealand this season, but came to the conclusion that it would be best to sail there early next year, and instead we will sail all the way up to Mexico. There was a lot of thought that wen...

We are now sailing new territory in the Pacific Coast of Mexico. On this episode, we are getting closer to Palm trees and further away from cactus trees. Warren finishes up some of the necessary projects and issues aboard VA before we can leave Mazatlán a...

Tired of boat work and boat projects?? US TOO!!! We just want to sail, but we have been putting in some serious work on our beloved VA, and doing our best to prep for the months of upcoming passages across the Pacific and through the idyllic and very remot...

On our part 2 adventures in the Baja before we set sail to Mazatlan, we head back to Todos Santos for the last visit. This time we wait around for our friends who don't know that we have stayed around an extra couple days to see them and we surprise them...