Rough ride

Ensenada Grande, BCS, Mexico

We spent a day at anchor in Caleta Lobos, in order to take stock of ourselves and the boat. We both fared pretty well. I spent the bulk of the day getting the watermaker working. It would not have been so bad if I hadn't screwed up when I replaced the filters. I accidentally gouged a couple of grooves in the plastic top of the filter housing, and this turns out to be really important if you want a good seal when you screw on the bottom part - water pretty well running everywhere when I started the unit. So I had to somehow fill in the grooves in the plastic - who would have thought that Bondo would be so useful - working great now.

Today, we left early in the morning for a short trip north to the tip of Isla Partida, in a bay called Ensenada Grande. We managed to sail close-hauled for lot of the distance, turning a 17 mile route into a full 33 miles by the time we were anchored. Lots of wind, all coming from the north. We sailed with a double-reefed main and full genoa for about half the time, then eventually had to reef in some of the genoa as well when the wind pushed 15 knots. The seas got really lumpy and the crew was sick. We gave up sailing when we were only about 2 miles from the bay as we were worried it would take us over an hour to get there, and it would be getting dark soon (dusk is around 5:30 PM here).

Nice anchorage, shared with about 10 other boats.

Bonus today was a brief visit from a whale in our anchorage at Caleta Lobos, just as we were getting up this morning.

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