Today proved to be a contrast to the past 2 that had very benign
conditions. The squalls that started this morning continued with periods
of sun and good wind interrupted with rain and winds in the 30's for
brief periods. We had our sails reefed so we could match the speed of
our buddy boat so when the squalls hit there was really nothing for us
to do and we sailed right through them. We're keeping our electronics in
the ovens just in case of lightNext ening.
We are now 137 nm from our waypoint off the south coast of Belize. From
there it is only about 20 miles to Livingston. By morning we should be
very close. Our concern now is pirates so we conferred with our buddy
boat and agreed on security measures we'll employ for the remainder of
the trip. Of course the biggest security is that there are 2 boats and
we will stay close together. Most attacks are on single boats.
We saw a pod of dolphins today for a while playing in our waves.
Ironically we also saw a seagull flying around way out here. Usually the
only things we see flying are Flying FIsh. I threw one off the deck
yesterday.
This is more than our usual 1 or 2 over night passages but once we get
to Rio Dulce we'll be there for 5 months.
Next update sometime around 8. It is sometimes hard to know exactly when
we can update based on what's going on and having a good satellite
connection.
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