Monday, 27 February 2006
Noon Position : 13 12N 071 13W
Course: 250 degrees Speed 11.4 knots Days Run: 266 miles
Weather : Sunny fine and clear. Wind : 070 degrees at 14 knots
News:
Contrary to expectations the wind and seas have decreased and also moved
dead astern. This is now giving us an apparent wind over the deck of 3 to 5
knots so definitely no good for sailing. We just have a reefed mainsail up
to dampen the rolling and it is quite comfortable. The other interesting
thing is that we seem to be getting a mild counter current which was also
not expected.
All of this means that conditions are good for fishing so we put out the
lines and promptly caught two blackfin tuna and Penny made us take in the
lines again – they were only in the water about an hour! We are promised
sushi tonight.
We are seeing quite a bit of traffic as we are passing just north of the
Maracaibo Basin where most of Venezuela’s oil comes from. We are also being
sqeezed in towards to coast so getting some of the Panama traffic. We passed
a 40 foot yacht also headed for the San Blas this morning and had a long
chat on the VHF radio. He was doing 6 knots and we were doing 12 so it did
not take us long to get past.
Everything going well and we expect to arrive in Colon about lunchtime on
Wednesday.
Regards = PW