It looks like the wind should lay down to 8-12 knts. Thurs. eve, so early Friday we plan to leave for the Hobbies and Vivarillos to do some diving and exploring. These are reefs off the Nicaraguan coast. Then we'll continue our trip to the Columbian islands of Providencia and San Andres. A Valiant 40, 'Willow' with Nancy & Jenny aboard from San Franciso will probably be leaving then too. Last evening we had them, and the crew from 'Linus', (a Swiss couple), and 'Rotuma', the Brits Derrick & Beryl, aboard to share a pot of chili and celebrate Beryl's birthday.
I've taken inventory of our provisions and put them on a spread sheet; so now the trick is to mark off the items we use to keep it up to date! It may be a few weeks or more before we see any kind of store or tienda. Hopefully we'll have better catching fish!
The weather has been great-no rain, winds 15-20, increasing at night. It keeps the noseeums away, thank goodness, but makes for a wet dinghy ride. The autopilot has been unreliable...we keep trying to get it right, and have our fingers crossed that Otto will cooperate on these next legs. Thank goodness there's no big stretches between here and Panama. Only one or two nighters. We'll send emails to this blog as we go!!
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