Published 04/23/2025
It was very calm overnight, no wind and no swells, so we slept very well. Up at 5 am, and underway by 5:45, we planned to head down to Puerto Don Juan, it is about 40 miles, and should take about 8 hours. Well, we found a fishing boat anchored right on our track from where we had come in the last time we came from the south, not really a big deal, just an interesting fact. We went around them and then out in the passage between the little island and the bigger one. We followed our track that we had come in on before. Only difference is this time it was low tide, not high(er) tide levels. We were just about out the other side of the passage, and wind was coming up, we had about 3-5 knots where we were anchored, and in the passage (usually higher because the wind gets funneled) about 10 knots, still nothing big. We found a rock, not on the chart plotter, but it was on Navionics the map program we use on the iPhone and iPad. It was about 5 feet under the surface while at low tide, right on the track we had used to come in on. Very unhappy! We backed off and double checked the charts and found a way around it. Then we continued our way out. Wind speed was supposed to be 12-14 knots out in the channel. Well, we stuck our nose out and it was closer to 30 knots! We turned around and went back to where we had been anchored.
We spent the rest of the day doing nothing but double checking the weather.
