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LETTERS
and the great yacht and sailing clubs around the Bay and
beyond. Trust me, there are boatowners out there who would
love to have you aboard, even as a rank beginner.
Mark Joiner
Dolphin
Wailea, Maui
Readers — If you make an effort, the things Mark recommends
do work. Patrick Ralph of Benicia recently did a Baja
Bash aboard Profl igate. He told us that he's gotten 20 rides
from the Crew List, including the last two Ha-Ha's and the last
two Pacifi c Puddle Jumps.
⇑⇓NO PRE-MEXICO PAPERWORK NECESSARY
I met the Grand Poobah and Doña de Mallorca briefl y at
the '98 Ha-Ha Crew List Party at the Encinal YC. I opted not
to be a part of the Ha-Ha, as it moved south too fast for me,
but I did spend the '98-'99 season cruising in Mexico.
I'm now hoping to spend the '10-'11 season cruising in
Mexico. My current home port is Eureka, and I'm wondering
if I have to go to a Mexican consulate before sailing to
Mexico. If I do, do you know of a service that can take care of
the paperwork for me? I'd prefer to avoid having to make an
expensive trip to the consulate in either Sacramento or San
Francisco.
This time my cruising plan is to not stop anywhere north
of Mazatlan, except possibly to anchor or rest overnight. And
on my way down, I wish to avoid San Francisco and San Diego
entirely. What are my options?
David Carr
Flying Cloud, Yorktown 35
Eureka
David — You have nothing to worry about. There is no paperwork
that needs to be done prior to clearing in at a Mexican
port of entry, and when you get to one, all you need is your
boat registration or documentation and a passport for everyone
on your boat.
Mexican ports of entry on the way to Mazatlan include
Ensenada, Cedros, San Carlos and Cabo. To date, Mexican
offi cials haven't expressed any concern with boats stopping
overnight in Mexican waters prior to clearing in at a port of
entry. For instance, the Ha-Ha fl eet stops at both Turtle Bay
and Bahia Santa Maria prior to clearing in at Cabo. But you
don't want to push it.
For answers to these and many other questions about
cruising in Mexico, visit Latitude 38's First Timer's Guide to
Cruising Mexico. It can be found and downloaded for free at
www.baja-haha.com.
⇑⇓THE COSTS OF CHARTERING 'TI PROFLIGATE
I just read the June Sightings piece on the Leopard 45
catamaran the publisher of Latitude has in a yacht management
program in the British Virgin Islands, and how well
it's worked for him over the last three years. That's very
interesting, and it may be something I'd like to get into in a
few years. But for right now, I'm curious what a Leopard 45
cat — which I understand has four cabins with four heads
en suite — costs to charter for a week in a second-tier yacht
charter program.
Tony Scarlino
Tempe
Tony — All we can tell you is what our '00 Leopard 45
'ti Profl igate charters for from BVI Yacht Charters. In the off