Okay, now I’ve seen it all! We’ve seen flying fish all the way down the coast but flying squid? Yes, Pacific Flying Squid is a real thing and they make an ugly mess with their ink when they splatter on your boat. It blasts out of the water like a jet and can travel as far as 100 feet in 3 seconds and fly as high as 10 feet above the water’s surface! It glides by spreading out its fins and flapping. But it also forms wings by spreading out its tentacles in a radial pattern. Needless to say, we’ve had some outside boat cleaning to do. Serhad, who was on our crew from San Diego to Cabo, kept the boat deck clean and got in the water and scrubbed the water line whenever it got dirty but he went home and now we have to do it ourselves 🙁 Miss you Serhad!
We are anchored in front of the hotel zone in Cabo while Kevin is quickly installing new lithium batteries. The reason for the quick installation is tax agents, a division of Mexico’s IRS, have been doing random sweeps through this anchorage looking for violation of import tax regulations. Any boat parts the Mexican officials find on your boat that appear new will be taxed 16%. A cruiser who was anchored not far from us was boarded by customs agents and cited for his spare boat parts and had to pay over 500 USD in cash. All cruisers carry numerous spare parts since some parts are difficult to get once you leave the U.S. Mexico doesn’t use its red light/green light method when checking into customs with a boat. The best way to bring your boat into Mexico is by hiring a yacht agency as your representative since voluminous amounts of paperwork are required. We were told the rules are enforced differently depending on the official and the rules can change daily. Welcome to Mexico!
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