Octavia Petrovici and Petter Bergman at Caleta Partida on Isla Espiritu Santo, Mexico.


day Brian and I paddled the kayaks to shore, rather than attempt our first beach landing in those waves. My fate was similar—I rolled over the top of a wave, capsized the kayak, and ended up head first in the sand. There are some anchorages,


it. But most places don’t have dinghy docks, or marinas, and we have to land the dinghy on the beach—most of the time in big, breaking surf. Our first exposure to the world


of beach landings was in San Simeon, California. Our friends on Capaz arrived in the anchorage a few days earlier and


watched another cruising boat try to take the dinghy to shore—a shore that any surfer would’ve loved, with big overhead waves. They surfed down a six-foot wave, turned sideways in the barrel, and flipped the dinghy end over end. They returned safely to the boat, but were wet and defeated. The next


though, where the shore is too far to swim or kayak to. When we were anchored in Tenacatita, we took the dinghy to the beach and landed it in gentle surf, no more than a foot high. We were giddy about how easy it was, and anticipated the same size waves when we left. But waves come in sets, and the set that was building was big. We dragged the dinghy from the beach to the water, jumped in as soon as we were thigh-high, and pulled the cord to start the engine. When we turned back toward the waves, we looked up to see a four-foot wave just about to break overhead. A few seconds later we were soaked head to toe, down one pair of sunglasses, and had eight inches of water on the floor of the dinghy.


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