Setting Sail Across the Pacific

March 18, 2014

Valiant was unfortunately taking a nap, but here we are at the send off party for the Pacific Puddle jump. Bottom clean (ish), laundry done, probably overnight here in Contadora since the sun is setting then off in the morning.  You can track us on the satellite tracker at the top of the page.

March 19, 2014

Day 1

What a wonderful day it is.  After a last big sleep at the Perlas Islands we hauled the anchor, and set our course directly for our next destination.  Unfortunately there were a bunch of gigantic reefs right in our way, and when the depth got down to 9 feet, the panic started. We even started the second engine. I think we have gotten a little to used to these uncharted pearl infested reefs. The only problem with an uncharted reef is you don't know which way to turn to get away from it. But within 30 minutes we were all well and way past it.  After about an hour of motoring we hoisted the sails and we sailed. We passed a couple of pods of dolphins, saw a ray just gliding under the surface, and even caught two tiny little fishes on our gigantic lures.

Now the sun is setting like an orange fireball. The winds are freshening up to 15 - 20 knots, and we are gliding along at about knots. We have both the Spinnaker and the Mainsail up, and are looking forward to an uneventful night.

Until next time!

Courage