Two hours on a private catamaran through San Juan del Sur bay at sunset, with wine and small plates.
Just the two of you and the captain.
Captain Ramón has sailed San Juan del Sur bay for two decades. He offers private sunset sails for couples: a twelve-metre catamaran, two people, two hours. You depart an hour before sunset, head out just far enough to have a clean horizon, and return along the coast as the light drops. On board there's sparkling wine, an appetizer board with local cheeses and fruits, soft music. On return, the bay lights are already on.
Sunset departure from the private dock
Sparkling wine and appetizer board
Return with the bay lights on
Don Tomás
Potter · San Juan de Oriente
"My grandfather taught me to wait for the clay. The clay teaches me the rest. Three guests is enough — more, and we lose the conversation."
How he learned
At nine years old he sat next to his grandfather watching the wheel turn. He wasn't taught with words — he was taught with silences, with hands placed over his own, with pieces that collapsed until one day they stopped collapsing. He learned to read the clay by its weight, by the sound it makes when it's ready. Forty years later, he still says he's learning.
Why he continues
It's not nostalgia, he says. It's because the clay still talks back. Every piece is a different conversation — the earth shifts with the rain, the kiln shifts with the wood, his hands shift with age. As long as there is something new to listen to, he continues. The day the clay stops speaking, he says, is the day he'll stop.
What visitors often miss
Most guests arrive thinking about the piece they'll take home. Don Tomás asks that, at least once during the afternoon, they take their hands off the clay and look around: the dust in the air, the sound of the wheel, the light shifting on the wall. The piece, he says, is just the memento. The afternoon itself is the experience.
San Juan del Sur — a place that reveals itself to those who slow down enough to listen.
Sat · Nov 8
Afternoon session
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Morning session
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