We are slowly sailing to Bahia Santa Maria. There was little wind when we left Turtle Bay but we gave it a fair try before we fired up the iron spinnaker (the engine). We motored from 10:51 am to 3:21 pm with the wind rarely going above 5 knots. In the late afternoon it started to pick up and now we are sailing in about 13 knots of wind from the northwest, with the main out to starboard and the yankee poled out to port.
Before we left we were hailed by Clark Straw on Arawak. They left San Diego early on Thursday and were just passing Turtle Bay on the way to Bahia Magdalena. We chatted a bit and later this morning I sent an email to Suzy back in San Diego letting her know where Clark was as they do not have an SSB to send email.
We tried fishing but were skunked again. We did see some Humboldt squid on the surface trying to grab some fish with their tentacles coming out of the water. Glad it was not a kraken! Other boaters mentioned catching some as well for calamari. We did hear of one boat landing a 46 inch Mahi Mahi.
Maybe we will have better luck tomorrow.
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