From Hoho to Haha

The Coho Hoho Rally included a dozen or so boats traveling at roughly the same timeframe from Port Townsend to San Fransisco.  The rally organizers put on a fist full of seminars covering a range of topics designed to make participants safer, more knowledgeable mariners. Quijote made the passage a couple of weeks before the rest of the fleet, but the rally was well organized and we appreciated the seminars.

South of San Diego we’ll participate in the Baja Haha Rally.  The Haha is less about seminars and more about herding 150 or so boats across a start line, through a couple of anchorages and into Cabo San Lucas.

I was half inclined to avoid the whole mess, but… I’ve never been involved with anything like it, so we’ll see what happens.  One advantage is that clearance into Mexico has been somewhat streamlined.

A third rally that we’re considering is called the Pacific Puddle Jump.  We’ll join another group of boats headed for the South Pacific from all over the Americas.  In our case we’ll depart Puerta Vallarta for the Marquesas in April.  Again the primary advantages will be our safety in numbers and the streamlining of French Polynesian formalities.

But for now we are bound for Mexico. Two days and we’re off!