Day 2 - To Turtle Bay

At Sea, Baja California

 It is late afternoon on the second day of our passage to Turtle Bay.

We are currently about 130 miles south of Ensenada and about 10 miles off shore. Our ETA into Turtle Bay should be sometime on the day after tomorrow - actually we are having to slow down a bit to avoid arriving at night (not all that hard to do with the very light winds we are currently experiencing).

When we left Ensenada, around 8:30 AM, we motored until about 2 PM, in light swells and less than 2 knots of wind. At 2 PM, the wind freshened up and we were able to sail for the next 18-1/2 hours, through the night, on a broad reach, gybing back and forth to keep the wind on the stern quarter - downwind sailing is not a good point of sail for us without a cruising Spinnaker. We flew a double-reefed main and full Genoa throughout the night, only shaking the reefs out of the mainsail for the last couple of hours in the morning, on a lovely beam reach for a change. Did not last long until the wind totally died and we had to resort to the engine again around 8 AM. Our speed, with typically around 6 to 7 knots of wind, was pretty consistently between 3 and 4 knots.

It is 4 PM here now and we have just turned the engine off, sailing downwind again with a full mainsail and Genoa, broad reaching in less that 7 knots of wind on very calm seas. Temperature last night only got down to about 15C, high for today was around 20 and it is currently about 17. Still not tropical but not too bad either.

Susanne and I are starting to get used to our watch schedule, 2 hours on and 2 hours off during the night. We are learning to make sure we eat and drink enough and are sleeping much better than on our earlier overnight passages. Not a whole lot to do, so we read our ebooks during the day and listen to audio books on our Ipods at night.

This will be my first attempt at updating this blog while at sea. If you are reading this, you know it worked ok.

{GMST}29|20|N|116|05|W|Day 2 - To Turtle Bay|Day 2 - To Turtle Bay{GEND}