Several years ago , never mind exactly how long ago, I got interested in sailing from an article i read about a guy sailing a small boat along the wilderness sections of Baja Mexico (and it is almost all wilderness...)  Pulling up on a beach every night to camp, took them several weeks to cover a few hundred miles of outstanding wilderness coastline.  That idea really fired my imagination.   I bough a small boat i could cartop,  learned to sail, then got a bigger  boat that was pulled on a trailer,  sailed all over the place in that, then one thing led to an other, went totàlly gaga about sailing, and before I knew it I was living on a 27 ft yacht No Bad Days in southern California getting ready to sail to Mexico. (See blog posts for 2010-11)  Some unexpected ed family situations and some lifestyle choices led me to sell that boat and move back to my little urban homestead in Utah.   But I still had the bug to sail some small boat along the Baja coast. 
One thing I had learned in all my sailing was that you can only sail when the winds blow and unless you fire up an engine or can row the boat, you will spend a lot of time bobbing around out there.  Now I enjoy bobbing around in a boat. Most people don't.  But there were times when I just wanted to get there. I hated everything about any motor I have ever had.  But rowing a 27 foot boat was tough. It can be done, but man is it tough. Even rowing my little 15 ft daysailer Sirocco was a hard days work .  I looked around and decided that a sailing kayak was just the ticket: car-toppable, beach launchable, Sleek, light, easy to paddle when there was no wind, and could be set up  with a decent sailing rig.  kayaks are pretty seaworthy as is, and with outriggeres for extra stability, i figured that might be perfect.  Hobie makes a really nice rig, in fact I spent quite a good time on one with my buddy Steve up on Yellowstone lake. But they are very expensive and i am a cheap bastard. So I improvised, as I tend to do.  I bought a used simple plastic touring kayak with a foot operated rudder,  cobbled together an outrigger floatie out of spare PVC junk, and made a sail out of an old billboard tarp. Boy oh boy but Dang if that didn't work fantastical! I sailed it around all over Utah, in some realy tough conditions and even spent a week touring on lake Powell loaded down as if I were out for a month in  Mexico. Having proven the concept, i upgraded the Pvc outriggers  and old tarp sail to some really tricked out storebought  kit and tried that out a few times before it snowed. (And even once after it  snowed!  There was snow on the dock on my last go. ) 
After all that,  I decided she is ready for a Baja voyage.  So am I.