El Reporte

Byline: Capt. Pat Rains CHACALA, Mexico — Cruisers visiting Chacala should check out the Chac Mool Café. I loved this little café when I first discovered it three years ago.

Byline: Capt. Pat Rains MANZANILLO, Mexico — Eight people died and an estimated 10,000 homes were destroyed when Category 2 Hurricane Jova slammed into Mexico’s Gold Coast, Oct. 11 and

Byline: Capt. Pat Rains PLAYA TENACATITA, Mexico — Legal wrangling still surrounds Playa Tenacatita, a small resort destination on Mexico’s Gold Coast, but lawyers for 200 local residents say they

Byline: Capt. Pat Rains SAN DIEGO — “We always like to celebrate the arrival of the cruising fleets into San Diego,” said Chris Frost, founder of Downwind Marine chandlery in

Byline: Capt. Pat Rains Fonatur, Mexico’s tourism-infrastructure developer, recently posted a uniform price structure for slips in its eight Marinas Turistica around the Sea of Cortez, although none of Mexico’s

Byline: Capt. Pat Rains Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, was the location shown in our most recent landmark quiz (in the Aug. 19-Sept. 1 issue) — and the first grand prize winners

Byline: Capt. Pat Rains Following the publication of an El Reporte article about preparing boats for hurricane season — in the Aug. 5-18 issue of The Log Newspaper — I received many