Wednesday, April 26 Time: 1000 local
Position: 17’38 N 101’33 W
Anchored in Zihuatanejo, Mexico Days run: 104 miles (10 hours)
Weather: sunny and warm
News:
Timoneer departed Club de Yates Acapulco at 0700 Tuesday morning for a small
anchorage and town of Zihuatanejo, 100 miles up the Mexican coast.
Unfortunately while picking up our port anchor we fouled one of the ground
line chains for the marina. After working on the anchor for a couple of
minutes the boys had pulled a five foot long, three foot wide and two foot
thick block of concrete to the surface. Over the next hour and a half we
managed to unwrap our chain and stretch out the mooring blocks chain and
drop it back in the water right where it came from. Once we had that
sorted we headed out to sea motoring in the glassy calm with winds less than
8 knots for the trip. The most notable thing on this section of the voyage
were the sea turtles, hundreds of them floating on the surface sunning
themselves. At one time we saw 5 out the port side windows and 3 out the
starboard side, quite often they are easily spotted as birds stand on their
backs to take a rest. We arrived at the Zihuatanejo anchorage at 1830
Tuesday evening dropping two anchors for the night.
John
