We’ve been in Huatuco now for about a week and it looks like our weather window for the passage to El Salvador just opened. We need to cross a 200 mile bay where winds can pick up to 70mph in about 20minutes. They have dedicated weather stations down here specifically to aid cruisers in passages. Looks like we’ll be leaving Wednesday night, arriving in the “bay of winds” Thursday morning. We’ll have about 48hrs in the bay until we get to the other side. From there its skip Guatemala and on to El Salvador. Should arrive sometime around Tuesday. Since we don’t have enough fuel to motor the whole way, we’ll be sailing a large portion of the trip, thus it may take longer or perhaps less time to make the passage. To date, this will be the longest for me but once in El Salvador, beers are $1, thus we may stay there for a month or soJ.
After talking to some friends down here, I am leaning on going through the Canal. A couple of reasons why:
1. It’s the Canal, what a story that would be……
2. They speak English on the other side (tired of fighting my way through translations even though it has not been really that bad).
3. The water. Clear with visibility down to 100 feet.
4. My boat was made in Florida, thus it should be easier to find a buyer if I choose to sell her. Not sure on this yet, I kind of like what I’m doing.
5. Employment. Should be pretty easy to live on my boat and pick up a job at one of the resorts/bars along the water to put some money back into the pocket.
6. It’s that or the S. Pacific and I’ve seen enough women from Tonga to know that I don’t want to go there by myself! I’ll save that trip for when I have a partner on board who wants to spend 27 days straight on the open ocean with a guy like me!
With that said, I’ll sign off. My next update should (better be) from El Salvador! Adios Mexico!
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