On the 13th, we reached our WPT “Honduras E” and turned to the next WPT “Nicaragua E” with a nice sailing speed.

The time on board was very relaxed. I sat with OBM at the bow and talked. I also had my conversations with Nik. Our conversations very often are about people from F-bach. Due to our difference in age, I sometimes feel like a history book she reads with a lot of interest. But her stories are also very interesting for me as I left F-bach long before she was born.

After turning S at the WPT “Nicaragua E” the wind felt asleep. We got one nice squall resulting in a freshwater shower for MaRe and short time speed of 9.x kn. Thereafter the wind got tired again. I gave the wind our dinner time to increase or change to engines. Poseidon had his choice and preferred to let the wind be very weak. Thus, we took all sails down and ran with engines through the nightly waters west of Nicaragua heading for a reef north of the island Providencia. This island is much closer to Nicaragua than to Colombia but belongs to Colombia.

After a night of motoring, we set the gennaker for a while but then went back to engines to make a constant speed of 5 kn. As we need to reach our final destination Panama, I was even thinking about skipping the reef north of Providencia and sail with more favorite winds directly Isla de Maiz Pequenea, Little Corn Island as it is called in English.

However, anchoring behind a reef sounded so interesting for us that we continued to the reef at 13°31.052’N • 81°20.283’W.

Finally we reached around 1700 the reef. The sky was filled with deep hanging dark grey stratos clouds and the water begging the reef appeared also grey in the area were we needed to anchor. Only very close to the reef it was emerald green.

OBM and I took stern showers with bailers of seawater of pleasant temperature and a quick splash of fresh water at the end. Nik, took a very quick in-boat shower.

Then OBM prepared another good board dinner. But after dinner my batteries suddenly got empty and I felt asleep within seconds. 10 always on alert drained batteries.

Now a new day started and I’m curious what I will see outside on a sunny day.