
Surfing the Baja Ha-Ha Aboard ‘Sweetheart’
The Santa Cruz 52 Sweetheart is on the cover of our December issue reaching south in a nice breeze and with a beautiful asymmetrical spinnaker. But her crew did more than just sail. In our current issue, crew members Jeremy Snyder and Maddie Zug (who are planning to do the Ha-Ha on their own boat) wrote about finding the surf in Turtle Bay and Bahia Santa Maria.

The story starts, “In addition to the 30th annual Baja Ha-Ha being the year of fishing and spinnakers, we did our best to make it the year of surfing.

“Our journey began in the San Diego airport trying to convince an Uber driver that, yes, an 8-foot board would definitely fit in the back of his car. We were thrilled to be crewing the Ha-Ha on Sweetheart, a Santa Cruz 52 skippered by Sally and Michael Aldridge. Their partnership with Al Ramadan, known as Crystal Voyager Expeditions, had a distinguished history of surf exploration across the Pacific. We were eager to contribute to this legacy. When we asked them about flying a board out from Berkeley for the journey, their reaction was immediate: “Bring it!”
That’s a good start to any sailing, surfing, fishing story. Read the rest of the story here.