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sy Timoneer

45m luxury ketch-rigged sailing superyacht

January 19, 2007 | Author admin

WEDNESDAY 17TH JANUARY 2007.
POSITION: 9 10N 084 46W – 25 Miles off the Gulf of Nicoya, Central Costa Rica.
DISTANCE TRAVELLED: 262 Miles since departure.
WIND: SE’ly 5 to 10 knots
WEATHER: Very hot, fine and clear. Blue seas and skies.

NEWS:
We had a very nice send off from Nicaragua. 60 school children came down to visit the boat just before we left and we handed over some charitable school supplies which we had brought from the US. As we passed slowly out of the river entrance they had gathered up 16 of the kids and each of them held up a huge cardboard letter spelling out “GRACIAS TIMONEER”! That just about sums up our visit to Nicaragua, really very nice people and a fascinating place to visit, but very poor. It will be a stop long remembered by all on board. THANKYOU NICARAGUA.

No sooner had we left and got settled in with the lines out than we caught our first fish, a skipjack, which is not very good eating so we released it. After catching another four of these we decided to leave the lines in. The sea was glassy calm as we motored south east heading for Panama, but soon an offshore breeze kicked in right on the beam and we were under sail alone. The wind gradually increased until just after dinner we had steady wind of over 40 knots with a deep reefed main and tiny staysail set. We had to slow down due to the head seas but it was not as bad as could have been, but definitely not comfortable. This was the infamous Papagayo Wind, which is a similar phenomenon to the Tehuantepec wind that we had last week – it is a funnelling of the trade winds blowing from the Atlantic across the isthmus into the Pacific.By 0200 it had calmed down somewhat and by dawn it was only blowing 10 to 15 so we were able to motor sail.

We have been surrounded all day by sport fishing boats coming out from Costa Rica, which is renowned for it’s good bill fishing. We duly hooked into one of their bill fish and lost out lure and line but did see him jumping behind us for a while. Shortly after that we caught another Mahi Mahi (dolphin fish) of about 25lbs which put up an exceptional fight. We now have the lines dry again as we do not need any more fish for the time being.

We are seeing lots of dolphins at the moment but not as many birds and no more turtles.

Everyone on board is fine.
Regards = PHil

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