For some reason, our photographs just do not capture the nature of the sea. You must need a wide-angle lens, or maybe an action shot with sound to catch the full impact of the waves and wind!
Leaving Isla Danzante, we picked up weather and for the next three days enjoyed some serious sailing in a winter "norther" typical of the Sea of Cortez at this time of year. The winds were consistently 15 to 20 knots, and for several hours each day, 20 to 25 with gusts to 30.
The seas pick up wave strength and height as the winds come down the Sea, so by the time we got into Isla San Francisco on Friday, the 19th, we were seeing consistent 5 to 8 foot swells with a few 10-footers thrown in for good measure. Our boat usually goes about 5 knots per hour. At one point, Marv saw the knot meter reading 10.99 as we came down the front face of a big swell. For us, that's fast! We tried to take a picture...but it doesn't look like much! Trust us, we deserved the ibuprofen and sleep when we were successfully at anchor!
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