Published 04/11/2025
Up at about 6:30, it was a rough night wind speeds up to about 35 miles per hour. Breakfast, and then bible reading. Checking the weather and listening to the wind. Two more boats arrived by about 10 am. A catamaran and a monohull. The monohull appears to be a single sailor and he had a difficult time anchoring. There is still 20 knots of wind.
After lunch we talked about getting together if the wind died down (still 20+ knots) so, I took a nap.
Later Reneé and I had happy hour and continued doing a whole bunch of nothing. Around 5 pm we checked in via the radio and again the wind was still too high.
At about 5:45 the wind dropped down to 3 – 8 knots so we will have company tonight for Mexican train and dinner.
In the meantime I am running the generator to top off the batteries. After an hour or so up from 80% to 94%. That is why Lithium batteries are so fantastic for a boat! With lead acid (AGM’s even) we would still be around 82%. I will turn off the generator as soon as I seem them getting close, so that they don’t get exhaust from the generator where they are getting on board.
I am still debating leaving in the morning to go north. If we do go, we are looking at fairly significant wind from the west for the first day and calm the rest of the trip, if we wait one more day it will probably be calm the whole trip. The difference is when we arrive in Puerto Peñasco. If we leave tomorrow it will be Sunday, if we leave Friday it will be Monday when we get there.
Only Mike came over Jenna was sleeping so they didn’t come over by a little after 7 pm the wind came back up and Mike headed back to his boat.
Reneé and I looked at maps, weather, and tides.
Plan 1. We will stay here another day, go to Refugio then leave from there about 4 pm Saturday to arrive at Peñasco about noon Sunday (high tide). Negatives: 18 hour crossing.
Plan 2. We leave tomorrow morning for Refugio, then Friday go to Lobos, then Saturday, to Isla San Jorge. Negatives: Isla San Jorge anchorage is North, wind is from the north, so no protection. High tide is about 10 am, and it is pretty low.
Plan 3. We leave tomorrow for Refugio, then Friday for Lobos, then Saturday go straight to Puerto Peñasco. We would almost certainly have to anchor out Saturday night.
No pictures today.