The journey continues

Bahia Agua Verde, BCS, Mexico

In order to finally find a refuge from the south winds, we have travelled north some 44 miles to beautiful Bahia Agua Verde. This is a large bay with some lovely anchorages exposed only from the north and should provide excellent protection from the prevailing south winds. There are several other boats in the bay that would seem to agree.

We started out motoring for the first 1/2 hour and then were able to sail downwind using only the genoa for about 3 hours, at more than 5 knots for much of the time - that is a pretty good sail for us. The remainder of the 8 hour trip was via the trusty engine. The route was pretty much straight north along the inner coast of the Baja peninsula except for the last 5 miles when we rounded a headland and headed due west to get to the bay. As promised, we are very sheltered here. Maybe too sheltered as it gets really hot on the boat when the temperature is over 30C and there is not a breath of wind - sometimes you just can't win - or maybe we are just hard to please.

Today's "problem de jour" is with the alternator belts. We could smell some burning rubber most of the day and eventually twigged to the fact that the alternator was not putting out as much juice as it should. I guess the belts need some tightening. Hard to figure why - I last adjusted them when we put the new alternator in back in Nanaimo before we started this adventure.

Tomorrow we may get real brave and launch the dinghy for the first time since Mazatlan. I can hardly wait to see what nasty surprises it, and the outboard motor, have in store.

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