The forecast files we get online still maintain there’ll only be 10 knots of wind from the west today where we are. Yeah, not. It’s been blowing 20 on our nose all day. Luckily we’ve got what we still hope is plenty of time to get to our waypoint for a high tide entry into the estuary tomorrow morning. The waves are huge and the boat is just pounding through them, occasionally coming to nearly a stop as we take two or three in a row over the bow. We expected this to be the worst of it, and it is. We’re just all tired of this passage (even Maya’s looking really tired) and ready to get an anchor down and clean up the boat. It’s amazing what a mess the boat can become on passage.
We have a bottle of champagne chilling in the fridge right now for our equatorial crossing, which should be around 6:00 tonite. Our friends at the Puget Sound Cruising Club gave us the bottle as a gift when Rob gave his talk on underwater photography a few years ago, and it’s been in the locker waiting for today ever since. Somehow we just imagined our crossing to be this idyllic and peaceful moment, not a complete pounding!
But we’ll get through today just fine and are looking forward to enjoying some time in Bahia de Caraquez. Last picture I saw there were 33 boats in there, so we’ll have plenty of folks to visit with. We’re going to get some serious chores done on the boat too. And of course we can’t wait to meet Brittney in Peru in September for some travels.
That’s probably all for this intransit log. There’s wi-fi at the club where we’ll be anchored, so I’ll get the regular logs updated soon. When we leave here in November I’ll post again to this log while we make another passage back through the ITCZ to Panama. Then in February when we leave Costa Rica for the Galapagos and the South Pacific I’ll be posting here alot.
That’s all for now.
Teresa
