The anchorage where we dropped the hook for last night was an interesting place. Completely surrounded by mangrove covered islands and cays. The wind was pretty weak and the dense mangrove trees are a good wind protection, so we had only small ripples on the sea surface. Well protect from the island and cays, no swell rolled to our anchorage. I don’t recall when I had such an anchorage last time. It felt like MaRe is on the hard.

The only noise came from an industrial area about 3 – 5 km away. Because of this nose we left again at 0700. It took us a while to carefully get through the many islands and cays into the open water. A quite different route planning compared to the Atlantic Ocean crossing. 6 carefully positioned WPT were needed. The longest distance between 2 WPT was only about 150 m.

While writing about the weak wind and the southerly swell. My eyes but the wind speed meter and I saw 3 Bft. Looking more precise at TWS in knots, there 10 KN to be seen. Enough to set the gennaker. While seeing the gennaker on PRT side wind increased to 4 Bft. So we are now sailing with around 6 KN comfortably to the next WPT, about 8 NM ahead.

After breakfast, wind became too strong for the gennaker, thus we replaced it by the genoa, sailed until the upcoming WPT, jibed, and got the wind from 170 deg STB, we set the storm jib on STB and sail now a butterfly with 2 head sails comfortably with around 5 KN.

Will the wind stay like this for the next 20 NM until Bahia de Guanica?