9AM Position Report
Well, we did get away from Bahia de Caraquez yesterday morning. The Health Inspector, the Port Captain and our Pilot all arrived at the boat at the same time, in the pouring rain. After answering a few skill-testing questions (eg: Do you have any Bread? Any eggs? A GPS? Fire Extinguishers? Milk? Fruit? Life Jackets?, Expired Medicine?, etc. etc. etc.) we were allowed to leave. The pilot lead us through the maze of sandbars, still in a heavy rain shower, sometimes seeing water depths of only 7 feet, and were out of harms way by 10AM.
For the first 4 hours, we motored into very light winds, light rain and about a knot of contrary current. Then the rain stopped and we put up our favorite combination of sails, a double-reefed main and full Genoa, and sailed in very light winds at very slow speeds right up until this morning. A nice sized pod of jumping dolphins joined us for a short while but were frustrated with our slow pace. All in all, we made good only 75 miles of our 590 mile passage - at this rate it will take us 8 or 9 days to get to Golfito. At least we have not used a lot of diesel so far.
We crossed back into the northern hemisphere at 2:25AM last night.
Right now the skies are completely overcast, with no rain, the seas are relatively calm and the crew has not been sick. Overall, not too shabby a beginning.
{GMST}00|20.07|N|080|56.82|W|B2G - Day 1|B2G - Day 1{GEND}
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