Second Day Out

Another day of sailing! We had good pressure all day and all night and were sailing pretty much 40-50 degrees off the wind to keep our boat speed up. The wind was from the NNW through the NNE so our course was up and down a bit but we made some good distance directly towards Soccoro Island and are in fact point right at the Island now and are only 50 miles away.

If we can keep our boat speed up in a West to South West direction I’m hoping we will miss a low pressure area forming around Soccoro tomorrow, by which time we just might be 100 miles further along and starting to see some true Sustained NE winds in about two days.

We had a little (or not so little) visitor last night who hung out on our dinghy for almost the entire night as we closed in on land again. not only did he get a free ride, but he also had full use of our dinghy as el bano and he didn’t even have to pay the 5 paseos as is customary in Mexico.

Last night I woke up to some swearing as Jean had experienced a minor rope burn when working with a reef in the main. All is good and we were able to get some ice on it right away and everything looks fine. Nothing like the time Kristine really worked he hands over.

Position update at 1200 local time March 25, 2016:
18 42.563 N
109 58.156 W
161 nautical mile noon to noon run
2706 miles to destination
6.5 kts SOG
274 COG