My own fault for not stocking it but the crew must mutiny. WE ARE OUT OF RUM! Ok. I'll live. But no more evening delicious drinks, no more splashes in morning beverage (I didn't say that), no more cooked banana deserts with happy rum flavoring. Sigh. Ok, I'm over it. [[secret yang editorial comment: no she's not!]] We still have a few beers, a glass or two of wine and all the delicious water we can drink. Life is actually pretty good onboard. We are motoring past the Gulfo de Fonseca about 20 miles off shore headed towards Mexico. Gulfo de Fonseca is chuck full of volcanic domes and more islands that I can name and has the unique claim of three different countries sharing a portion of it's shore: Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador. I'll get Rich the magician to post the coordinates so you can Google map it. We skipped it heading South and thought to visit on this northbound journey but we have a possible window of opportunity to get across the Tehuantepec without getting our butts kicked so we are moving on towards Puerto Madero to stage for the crossing. I took some photos of the distant volcanos this morning and hope they'll turn out well. If so, I'll post them to the blog when we arrive in Huatulco in 4 to 7 days depending on the happy sailing goddess.
So, what I would like to do is siphon off excess wind on crazy gale type days and bank them for days when we just don't have quite enough wind to sail. Hmmm. I'm working on how to accomplish that miracle. It is the container that is giving me the most problems. In the meantime it looks like the wind has answered my prayers so I'll end here and up some more sail and rest our trusty dinosaur burner. Love and hugs to all of you from both of us.
from the yin side
ceilidh's location: 12.7768.33N, 088.084167W
Gulfo de Fonseca is approximately 35 nautical miles to the northeast.
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