Seven cruisers, one from each boat including Jerry got in the back of Guarrmos truck to go and get checked out of Puerto Chiapas and pay API (the fee some ports have to achor) to prepare for our departure Saturday morning. Supprisingly it only took them a couple of hours, that evening we had coctails on the back of Adagio, a large catermarane who came in the day before. Saturday morning the navy showed up around 6 am to start the inspection process to be able to leave. Even though we are not leaving the country we still had to have an inspection by the navy, I am guessing it is to check that we have not picked up any drugs to smuggle to other ports. It took the navy about 45 minutes at each boat, then we all started our engines to motor out of the marina. It looked like a parade of sailboats leaving one right after another, but it did not take long for us to all disperse out into the large ocean. We left around 9:30am to head our 250.5 miles north to Huatulco and the big journy of crossing the Gulf of Tehuantepec. We had an easy 51 hour motor across, we had one night that the winds we up to about 17 knots, but other than that, it was an easy, beautiful, almost full moon crossing. On Sunday our second day out we had a couple of catch and release skipjack fish and got to listen to the Packers and the Broncos on Sirius Radio.
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| Turtles!! |
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| Shiraz has decided that he loves laying up on the dodger, it is like his own personal hammock! |
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| But the captian does not like it...don't think he is listening to you Jerry!! |
We arrived around 5:30am at Bahia de Santa Cruz, one of the nine bays of Hualtulco, and waited till sun up to motor in and drop anchor. Unfortuently the area that we were going to anchor was pretty rocky and our anchor would not catch, so we motored out back down a mile to Bahia Tangolunda, where SV Luna Azul was already anchored. It took a couple of tries but we got the anchor set, dropped the kayaks and had a great little tour of the bay.
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