Cruising Done Right in Mexico

I met this nice young couple a few years back and they had just finished taking their ASA Certification Sailing/Boating lessons and were looking for a boat to further their interest in Sailing. With a limited budget and it all being really new, they settled on a Catalina 27. The next weekend they were in Sucia with that little boat! Octavia and Petter were ready to go and always seemed to have the right attitude about boating. This is them pictured to the right.

About a year later after looking for houses in overpriced Seattle, they started thinking that they could get a big boat and maybe live on that. They decided on a Hunter 44Deck Saloon which makes a great liveaboard. It also a ton of boat for the money and modestly priced compared to most houses in Seattle. They found an endtie slip on Lake Union, and this became their view:

About two years later I heard that they were provisioning and outfitting the boat to go down the coast to Mexico. I guess it occurred to them that their home was a boat and it might be nice in Mexico for the winter. It can't be that hard to sail a boat down the coast? Right? And it isn't. Check their awesome blog http://svbellamarina.blogspot.com/ for the whole dang thing. They are chillin down some place south of Mazatlan, while us Seattleites are really chillin down with sub freezing temperatures for over a week!

I think their plan is to put the boat on a ship bound for Seattle sometime in the spring. Good On Ya Octavia and Petter!