Wednesday, January 20, 2010

South to tenacatita

We made it over to Yelapa  from Paridise so we can get an early start south. try 2:30 am  we pull out black as coal, best time to round the correntes point, known for its washboard seas. All goes well we come around at sunbreak, two bats ahead of us two behind. the oyher thing is it' about 15 hr sail to Chemela  75 miles south, need to come in before dark. a little wind in the right direction helping out, nice sail but tired at the end, Pamila, single handing, on Presious Metal left 3 hrs later and past us in the last hour, She is heading down to Zhwat. she helps organize the fund raiser for sail fest, for the native kids and thier school. We pushed a little, got in at 6;20 40 min to spare.nice anchorage but tricky to come in, glad it was light we stayed a extra night our friends Quil Chan made it in just before us Chamala nice sleepy village. the next morning  Qual Chan, Duefor and us sail south to tenacatita, we get out of the bay and the wind is strong, 18 to 20 knots but blowing in our direction we sail out to sea and turn south with wing in wing. the seas are running 6 ft and its a little hard to keep the boat from wandering we sail on. Qual Chan reports trouble with there head sail ,all fowled, can't untangle , we take some head sail in as the gusts reach 24 kts, 5 hrs we make it in to be greeted by our friends Evergreen, and Precious Metal whe had left the day before.busy saving someones boat that went adrift with the strong wind. we viseted on shore Nikita connected with Josh on evergreen, they did some snorkling,We pass on some school book to Precious metal to take down to the kids for the fund raiser.  We head forshore  and enjoyed a couple of cold cervesas. the bad weather is coming and we expect to hold out here till it passes
 Gypsywind standibng by on 22.