Baja Ha-Ha Sign-Up Deadline Is Wednesday, September 3
The deadline to join the 110 boats already signed up for the 31st annual Baja Ha-Ha is next Wednesday, September 3. If you’d like to join them, go to our Heading South page and click on Baja Ha-Ha. You’ll be joining the very last of the Grand Poobah-hosted rallies.
Some of the fleet have already started cruising on their way south to make the November 3 starting date in San Diego. Most others are getting their boats ready, though some maybe haven’t even closed on the purchase of the boat they’re planning to sail south! If you are getting ready, one of the best guides for your preparations is Latitude 38’s First Timer’s Guide to Mexico. You can read it online, or it will be mailed to you with your entry packet when you sign up for the Baja Ha-Ha. You can also get a free copy when you come to next week’s Latitude 38 Fall Crew List Party at Spaulding Marine Center on Thursday, September 4.
You can get a glimpse of who’s on board for the Ha-Ha in the September issue released today. The article is a snapshot of a few of this year’s fleet members, such as folks like Meggie Woodfield and Stephen Naler, who are already in San Diego aboard their Catalina 350 Mystic Wind. Meggie started sailing in 2021 when she moved to San Diego from Provo, UT, and she jumped in with both feet when she bought Mystic Wind in 2023. Like most crews in the Ha-Ha, Meggie and Stephen have Starlink aboard and are hoping to be able to do some remote work from La Paz and the Sea of Cortez. We’ll be sharing more profiles of Baja Ha-Ha cruisers in the October issue.
There’s no time like the present. Sign up for the Baja Ha-Ha by September 3, get your downwind sails ready, and get yourself to San Diego by November 3. You’ll have fun.
And we look forward to seeing everyone at the Mexico Cruising Seminar and Crew List Party next week at Spaulding Marine Center.
Ahh, yes, the caveats start…”very last of the Grand Poobah-hosted rallies…”
So probably not the last, but they need more entries to make it seem like it matters….
Orlando – thanks for your continued reading of ‘Lectronic Latitude and your efforts to keep an eye on the Baja Ha-Ha. As we know the future is always uncertain and we’ve never truly known if there were be another Ha-Ha. We realize this is a major concern of yours so we thought we’d collect the comments we’ve published from you on the Ha-Ha:
“Ahh, yes, now the “…this is the last Ha Ha…” drumbeat now comes with a disclaimer on perhaps someone else will take it up….
You folks never give up stirring up more entries whenever the numbers don’t look too good
“Just let this thing die peacefully and with a modicum of grace”
“I will believe this is the final one when the Ha Ha sign up time comes around next year….
This is probably the 4th consecutive year of the perhaps, maybe, almost for sure, final Ha Ha…”
“How long till the Poobah starts telling everyone that this might, perhaps, maybe, not sure, probably, not really his last Ha Ha in an effort to squeeze more entries at the end?”
“And the “This might, maybe, could, possibly, perhaps, not sure yet, pretty sure..” retirement drumbeat begins right on schedule…yawn”
“Will you folks be threatening everyone with the “Might be our last Ha Ha” bull again this year?”
“Gee, I can’t wait for the bait and switch of “…this might be the last Ha Ha” by Spindler and Patsy…”
Since your comment there are now 111 boats signed up! Charles Emig and his Island Packet 370 Patty Ann from San Diego. Our ‘threats’ must be working.
Yep, those ‘threats’ have always worked….I’ll wait for next year’s posts, starting when, March?
That’s probably a bit early but we’ll look forward to hearing from you around then.