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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home3/aboarddi/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114With the boat fully fueled (including an extra 40 gallons in jerry cans) and our passports properly stamped we aimed to wake up nice and early and sail to Las Perlas. After all, for the last week we’ve had a near on constant 15-20 knot wind from the north. What could go wrong?\n<\/p>\n
At 6am there was no wind. There was not much at 7am. Approaching 8am we decided to go for it. The anchor windlass breaker was the next thing to die after the wind. No problem \u2013 we raised it by hand. No matter that the spares recently received had the wrong sized lugs, we weren’t going to hang around another day. Then the chart plotter froze. Not once, but twice, requiring power cycling to restore functionality. Minor stuff really.\n<\/p>\n
Soon we were off motor sailing in 8-10 knots of wind. We put four lines off the back having heard the fishing was good. The wind was lousy for our standard rig so it was an opportune time to crank out the Code Zero that had been in for repair. No problems this time. Up it went and it looked good. We were soon doing 4-5 knots in 8-10 knots of wind. For a while we turned the motors off. But the wind was tired of blowing for the last two weeks and died down to nothing at one point. We used the electric motors on batteries to assist us keeping a half decent ETA to Isla Contadora running the genset to recharge from time to time. The last two hours we ran the genset continuously to get us in.\n<\/p>\n