San Pedro, Part 2

I'm not sure if I mentioned that we purchased a new dingy, Jade Jr. She's a Porta Bote and folds up flat so she can be stored on the side of our deck. Our other dingy was fabulous, but took up a lot of space on deck and rowing it was a bitch. This one is lighter, rows pretty well and scoots along with our 2hp Honda motor.

Anyway, back to our horrible sight. We had spent another uncomfortable night rockin' and rollin' with the swells. Jade Jr. had been tied to the side of Jade, but was crashing against her with every swell. I tried giving her more line to trail back further, but she managed to work her way back to Jade so tying her to the side was a better option. However, after that long and sleepless night I had enough of the banging. I went into the cockpit to check S/V Waveglider's dingy to see how they were controlling it. To my horrible surprise I noticed that Waveglider (thankfully a catamaran) was beached and being slammed by the waves. Owner Barry was trying to release her with his dingy to no avail. We had to do something. So we pulled anchor and headed over to assist.

The plan was to attach a 50 foot line and pull Waveglider off the beach. Two things came to mind: 

1. We've never pulled or rescued another boat before.

2. 50 feet may seem like a good distance until you have to get your boat, which drafts five feet, close enough to shore to receive the line, attach it and go.

Somehow we managed to do it without beaching ourselves, without getting tangled in seaweed and without crashing into Waveglider. It's hard to see, but here we are towing her off the beach and back into the bay. She looks a lot further away than she was, trust me!

We still had to wait a few more days before the winds shifted to the right direction. And boy were we ready to get out of there. The night before we left we decided to celebrate with a camp fire on the beach. It was lovely, but while Susana was gathering wood she was attached by a jumping cholla (mean looking cactus with big ass thorns). Thankfully, Dr. Poncha was there to save the day.

Here's the aftermath.

Our campfire and beautiful sunset.

The next morning we towed Waveglider out of the bay so they could sail back to San Carlos. Once they got close enough we were able to give them another tow into the bahía.

We will never forget this adventure. We learned new skills and what our boat (and ourselves) are capable of.