We woke up about normal 6 am or so, and we were underway by 7:30. We had breakfast and devotions underway. Later we listened to a sermon. There was virtually no wind until about noon or so, at which point I put up the sails and turned off the motor. Renee’ ran three loads of laundry and hung them up to dry. We also ran the water maker all day, keeping up with the washer and ending with about 90%, as we neared the last turn to go in to the Puerto. We plan to finish laundry and run the water maker to top off the tank on the way north to Puerto Peñasco tomorrow.
We arrived at about 3 or 4 (depending on what clock you look at, we still have not decided what time zone we are going by. We are the only boat here, and we anchored in the middle cove of this bay, in about 35 feet of water. Once everything was taken care of we went for a swim, visibility here is poor, only a couple of feet. We found quite a bit of sea weed wrapped around the prop. This was the tough stringy kind, not the big leafy kind. We got if off the prop and checked the rest of the bottom of the boat. The zinc look pretty good. But there is still quite a bit of marine growth, which will get washed off when we get hauled out.
We checked our email, and the weather and we are planning on leaving tomorrow about 6 pm or midnight. It is about 105 miles from here to Puerto Peñasco, which means about 18 hours at 6 knots. So, if we leave at midnight we should get there at 6 pm, if we leave at 6 pm, we should get there at noon. Downsides to leaving at 6 pm is that there is not supposed to be any moon light tonight, moon set tonight is at 11:22 pm, and it is only a tiny crescent. The moonrise tomorrow is at 9:51 am. Which means we have only starlight and our boat lights to see what we are doing. Not optimal, but we also have radar, and once out of this port, there are no rocks between here and Puerto Peñasco.
We do have room for guests, if anyone is interested in visiting and spending a week or so with us, drop us a line and we will coordinate. What you have to do/have is you need a passport and will need to be able to get to where we are when you are going to be down. When we know what time frame you are thinking about we can let you know where we expect to be so that you can make your travel arrangements.
If you want to know where we are, click this link:
https://forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/display/Make_Me_Laugh_Again
