Sail Further

And now for something completely different: San Jose, CA 1997 This is the "bringup" team at Exponential Technology, Inc. We are popping champagne corks to celebrate booting MacOS on our x704 microprocessor first silicon. This was Jim Blomgren's startup before founding Intrinsity . Intrinisity designed the A4 microprocessor powering the iPhone 4 and got bought by Apple last year. I guess I should be kicking myself for not going to work there in 1998 when they asked me to...but twelve years until cash out, who has the patience??? (this moment in computer history brought to you by the Telcel Banda Ancha 3G cellular modem. The modem is made by ZTE, a mainland China company. With all the recent talk about "back doors" and "kill switches" it kinda makes you wonder...)

Punta Galera is described in Rains' guide as a "marginal anchorage"; I didn't find it any less sheltered or more rolly than Puerto Escondido or Puerto Angel. It also has a nice point break easily accessible from your anchorage. If finding surf breaks is your priority rather than shoreside services I'd recommend skipping the other two and spending your time anchored here. As magicseaweed.com would describe it: "a less demanding point break" rather than one of the " Thundering beach breaks with board and back-snapping brutality such as Puerto Escondido"

I have a new algorithm for beating the heat while cruising Mexico. Written here in C++ pseudocode for your edification: