21 25.181 S, 040 31.468 W
Yesterday to anchored at Buzios after the overnight passage from Rio. Since we continued to have a weather window, we decided to leave at 5pm and continue north to Vitoria.
All was fine when we left, light winds and motoring.
But... then around 7:30 pm, we could see squalls closing in on us. For the next several hours we had lightening, thunder, rain coming down in buckets, the seas were churning. We had to dodge small fishing boat with no running lights so we could figure out what direction they were going, only a sign white light. Sometimes they would not be on radar but would only just show up out of the darkness. We were soaked as well as everything in the cockpit. We put on our foul weather gear (hard to imagine). I put most of our portable electronics in an anti static bag and then into the microwave, just in case.
Early in the morning it finally cleared up.
Now we are sailing along under the staysail making good progress. Hope to be in Vitoria some time in the morning tomorrow.
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