Cabo Swarms with Ha-Ha’ers

Deeply sun-tanned sailors wearing brilliant turquoise and tangerine-colored shirts are swarming all over Cabo San Lucas today, as the ‘Sweet Sixteen’ Baja Ha-Ha fleet has arrived in full force.

The final leg was a beauty. Very light winds at the 6 a.m. start (at Bahia Santa Maria) built slowly throughout the day to offer easy, near-tropical sailing on mild seas. For most boats, the best part of the 180-mile ride to the Cape came in the late evening when NE winds built to around 15 knots, gusting higher. Wearing only T-shirts and shorts, crews flew big chutes beneath a full moon, with Orion’s belt lined up right along the rhumbline to steer by. "It just doesn’t get any better than that," said one sailor on the next morning’s net.

As we head off to prepare for today’s Cabo beach party, we’ll share some random images from the trip south. Ha-Ha XVI concludes tomorrow with the Awards Ceremony hosted by long-time sponsor Marina Cabo San Lucas.