We wanted to leave at 0900 but many things caused a delay of an hour.

There were first the need to send a few emails but the marina, the place where the boats are in the water, is in the signal shade of the hill on which top the marina buildings are located. Thus, I crabbed my PC and mobile phone and went up the hill. There I easily could send an receive and also answer immediately a few of my mails.

With the harbor master we were lucky. He came pretty quickly. Maybe the 4-color-pen, which I gave him, when we cleared in, helped. He completed the departure document, which also includes the cruising permit, and recognized he forgot a stamp. So he needed to go back and get it.

We then got 25 l (we could have enough to fill our tank) of potable water but I did not want to fill it into my tank. Is one of my principles to avoid filling in water from an external source. So I needed to get my well stored jerry can out of center storage room at bow.

Nex, a good bye to especially Yaney who helped us a lot and finally we could cast off the lines.

Outside we wanted to make water but we can’t run the engines and the genset the same time, and the engines’ alternator can never produce the power we need for the water maker. We planned to drift for an hour to make 180 l of fresh water. But there was a little bit of wind coming up and turning slowly from NNW to E, we put up the genoa to keep the boat in direction. Finally we even sailed with 2.5 kn, and it turned out that the wind increased that we even sailed with up to 3.5 kn, thus kept us busy with the ongoing tuning the sails a bit to the wind changes.

As we saw small fishing boats several times far away from the coast and these little boats are not to be seen on the radar screen, I decided to move farther away from the coastline and to check every 15 min if there is something ahead of us.

Once the water maker ran for 2 h producing 360 l of fresh water, I started to clean the cockpit with a brush and plenty of water. The water needed to be taken with the “bucket-on-the-rope”. Scrubbing the cockpit floor with a brush and getting around 30 buckets of sea water by pulling it up about 2.5 m was quite a physical exercise.

Next, we the wind direction improved, we hoisted the main to get a bit more speed. Not to much effect because the wind got a bit tired.

We just sat down to eat a bit, when fishing rod alarm sounded. I felt that there was something bigger on the hook. So I let line out, slowed it down until it stopped. This, I repeated several times, to make the fish tired. Slowly I could feel the fish for tired and I could haul it in line bit by bit. At the end, I could haul in the last 50 m of line without a special effort. The fish was tired. When the fish was close by, we saw immediately that it’s was not a barracuda, but a wahoo. Lucky us! We got fresh fish for a few days. Sh than took it on board where he eviscerated it at the teak grid of the entrance to the salon. The best place to do safely on board. Once he was done I cleaned up the grid with a brush and plenty of seawater while Sh continued with the fish to get the filets ready for the frypan.

Menu of the night: Sauteed wahoo and potato salad, Sh prepared already in advance. Delicious. I was too tired for Sh’s yoghurt dessert with bananas, rum raisins, and a shot of Caribbean rum additionally. I went to sleep for 3 hours to start my watch at midnight. Now I’m in my watch from 0600 to 0900.

Currently we have fully overcast sky, squalls are pouring water in the sea; fortunately in sufficient distance to us.

What will this day bring us?