Last night’s sail topped all….

These south easterly winds makes for perfect water surface; flat as can be! Boat cruised at 7 -7.5 kn but since we were bucking a knot of current speed over ground showed around 6knots! If this keeps up, we will be out of the Sea of Cortez in 24 hours!

To make the evening more special a pod, perhaps a mega pod, of Short finned Pilot Whales came out of nowhere and swam across our path. We must have watched them move across the bow of the boat for an hour, slapping and keeping everyone in line and moving! My guess is that there were 200 whales moving through. Spectacular show!

In addition an almost full moon appeared and at the same time wind picked up a notch! I decided to furl in my Genoa sail a bit as flying fast at night is scary with fishing boats not using AIS. Speaking of which, I noticed a light in the distance and right away tried to find it on the chart plotter, but couldn’t see any AIS vessels so I switch to radar to locate it. No signs of a boat… I decided to turn everything off and on again as that always fixes things😉! But nope, nothing! I switch back and forth a few times but still nothing but the light is now getting closer as the mast seems to be taller. After half an hour I realized that the light is a planet…