Author: sailawaysarantium

The plan is to keep on this tack and then hang a right and hopefully have the wind on our beam all the way into Guaymas!

We pulled anchor around 09.00 and motored for about 30 minutes, raised the sails and watched the wind keep the sails full. Although at times the boat speed was 0.5 knots, the sails managed to stay full. The wind speed at 2.5 knots only lasted for about an hour. I thought to myself, “this is good practice for the doldrums around the equator… just find something to do and do it well”. I polished the boat!

As I watched the volcano disappear behind me, I practice my C, D, E, F and G on my ukulele! Today will be my second day (hour) of ukulele, throughout my sailing journey! Boat is sailing by itself thanks to the Hydrovane, the best helms-woman onboard!

Ukulele, reading, writing and of course…some more polishing of stainless items on deck! Check out these dorades!

Love the self steering… she will take Sarantium to the other side through the night while I stare at the screen!

…. we will sail across! Yesterday, the winds didn’t quite hold so we decided to head towards Isla Coronado. From a distance one can see a Volcano on sla Coranado! On my way back I would love to climb it!

For now, coffee and listening to the birds fight over fish! Wind should be picking up within two hours….fingers crossed!

I woke up excited, as today we will cross the Sea Of Cortez. It will take 24 hours if we sail at an average of 5 Knots. The winds are forecasted to be blowing at 8-12 Knots on Thursday and Friday. On Saturday and Sunday the winds are increasing to 15-25 and gusting up to 28 Knots. I would prefer to sail in 12 Knots, so I will be pulling anchor this morning. I hope the forecast holds and we will be arriving to Guaymas tomorrow morning, preferably in daylight, so holding off on departure until sun rises is wise. But I am excited, so I will make another cup of coffee and enjoy the sunrise! Goodmorning World!

I hope I sleep well tonight and winds start blowing early morning! I am excitied to pull my boat out of the water and clean, scrape and paint the hull. I am also excited to attach the whisker pole. It will be such an asset to a good passage to French Polynesia.

Bahia Salinas is a wide open bay but write-up said we would be protected from all but south wind. North westerlies are prevailing so we took a chance. We shouldn’t! I had a sleepless night! I wanted to leave first light so after coffee and new baked bread with fresh tomatoes, Sarantium motored out to find ZERO wind! I decided to go around the corner to another anchoreage and wait for wind.

Here is decent protection until the wind picks up… maybe I will play in the water until then….

A whale’s blow woke me up this morning…. I jumped up on deck to see and I watched it swim away to explore the bay…

Sarantium sailed all day and ended up in Bahia Salinas on Isla Carmen.

Sarantium will be back to this amazing anchorage…. but we got to go, time is ticking…