Seven Selenes Cruise the Baja Coast | ||||
By: Mark & Roseanne Tilden
Seven Selenes joined 43 other powerboats of various sizes and styles for a two week cruise in November from San Diego to La Paz, Mexico. The Selenes were part of a 50-boat rally-cruise, called FUBAR (Fleet Underway to Baja Rally). The event was organized by the De l Rey Yacht Club with a variety of other sponsors, including Selene Florida. The following Selenes participated:
San Diego greeted us with uncharacteristically cool and cloudy weather, so by the time we got underway early the morning of November 7th, everybody was ready for more sun and warmer temperatures. As it turns out, we didn't get much sun until several days later in Turtle Bay. By the time we reached LaPaz, we were all enjoying sunny skies, beautiful sunsets, and temperatures in the mid 70s to lo w 80s. The itinerary included three overnight passages of between 185 and 280 miles, as well as four shorter day trips, with several lay da ys interspersed among the voyages. In brief, here was our itinerary:
I was personally very proud of our Selene fleet. Our crews demonstrated excellent seamanship skills on the longer overnight passages . At anchor or on the docks, the Selene community was definitely the most fun! We were often the last to leave the beach parties. We had a couple of potluck meals where we setup tables on the dock and everyone brought food to share. We even managed to get most of us together a couple of times on one of our boats at anchor. While we're proud of little ships (and we got lots of compliments), we also welcomed non-Selene owners to join our dock parties, and we adopted Jo Salzer's sister and brother-in-law, Ken and Dottie Saville on their home-built trawler named Dreamweaver as "honorary Seleners". The Selene group also initiated their own informal fishing tournament. Each boat put up $50 to enter and there were three categories :
Most of the Selenes are remaining in Mexico and are headed farther south to cruise the Mexican coast and Central America. Bob and Ch eryl Klein's Kasekuchen will be loaded aboard a Dockwise ship in January to go through the canal and eventually to the Klein' s home base at Selene Florida in Fort Lauderdale. While most of us felt that we would have enjoyed slowing down more and spending more time in the anchorages, overall it was a great event. Once again, the Selene community demonstrated one of our favorite sayings on Mystic Moon: "It's not where you are, it' s who you're with". For more information on the FUBAR and for the personal blogs of some of the Selenes that participated, check out the following links : |
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