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Current
Baja Report
Archive: Current Baja Report,
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12/19/04,
12/1/04,
11/18/04,
10/11/04,
3/10/04,
2/16/04,
2/2/04,
1/20/04,
1/07/04,
12/17/03,
12/1/03,
11/14/03,
11/2/03,
10/16/03,
10/02/03,
3/4/03,
2/25/03,
2/11/03,
2/4/03,
1/28/03,
1/21/03,
1/14/03, 1/6/03,
12/30/02, 12/22/02,
12/10/02
This winter our man Gary Morris will be keep you
informed of the sailing conditions in La Ventana Baja.
Click here
for a large (slow) collage of photo's from the past few years down
south.
| Baja Update -
February 4, 2005 |
19
sailing days in January
Good winds and great weather (read: all play and no work)
makes johnny a bit jealous huh?
you're
in good company.....
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Howdy
Friends,
Here is the latest installment of updates from the windy and
warm beach here in Baja. It's cloudy and windy today so
I decided to write rather than sail. See, we don't do
clouds. We're such a bunch of snobs. Our best to
all, G&N
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 The
wind returned to La Ventana after taking a vacation from the
20th to the 26th. If you're into numbers, the final
count for sailable days in January was 19, which is a few days
less than my 5 year January average of 23. The final 5
days of January saw great sailing on 4.2's and 4.7's with warm
and sunny days making up for the 7 day drought. A seven
day dry spell is a little unusual in January, but I've also
experienced 7 day dry spells in the Gorge during July...it
just proves that we have little influence over Mother Nature.
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I
recently learned from a friend here on the beach about a
source of weather information for sailing in Baja. Every
morning at 7:15 (Mountain time zone) we listen to the Amigo
Net on our portable shortwave radio (single side band
frequency 8122). The weather broadcast is for mariners
who are traveling from San Diego to Panama, including the Sea
of Cortez. There is  no
Mexican or American official weather forecasting information
service south of San Diego, but these folks put together a
reasonably accurate wind and sea forecast that seems to be
spot on most of the time. La Ventana has two
geographical features that will enhance most northerly winds
in the southern Sea of Cortez. The first is the
"squeeze" that occurs between Cerralvo Island and
shore here in La Ventana. The Amigo Net folks claim that
the Cerralvo channel can increase the north winds by as much
as 50%...we'll take that. The second factor is the
thermal boost we get when the sun heats the desert south of La
Ventana. It's apparent on partly cloudy days when the
sun is blocked the wind drops, and when it comes back out the
winds kicks back in. So the next time some asks you why
La Ventana is a windy place in the winter...you've got one
amateurs viewpoint. Good Sailing, Gary & Nancy
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Gary and Nancy run the Windance Rental
& Demo Center in the summer,
spending winters on the beach in La Ventana, BCS Mexico.
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