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We started leg two bright and early after two days of rest in Turtle Bay. The winds were great, at one point we covered 74 miles in 10 hours! Midafternoon of day two, while the spinnaker was up, we caught a huge tuna! We had lost our first one by not slowing down enough while trying to pull him in, so this time we hove to (with the spinnaker poled out no less), and hauled our 75 pound fish aboard. Duke was put below to avoid any altercations with mr. fish- and the rest of us abandoned David as soon as he made the first slice into the fish. Unfortunately fish juice infiltrated the remote plug-in for the auto pilot during the operation, so Maureen had to return to the cockpit and straddle fish parts while steering the boat! It was a stinky two hours, but we had fresh tuna steaks on the barbecue for dinner!! Unfortunately, since our dc fridge system had given up on us upon departing San Diego, we ended up giving away all but 3 meals to the other cruisers in Bahia Santa Maria. We crossed our imaginary finish line around midnight the second night, I turned the helm over to David at 2 am, and he woke us up at 4 am to anchor in Santa Maria (naturally my first thought when he tried to wake me up was "it's not my watch!") Bahia Santa Maria is a huge, absolutely beautiful bay, with just a few fishing huts on the beach over in a corner. Again we had two lovely relaxing days, and a party on the beach. There is no town nearby, but the closest village (over in Magdalena bay), brings all the makings for lobster & shrimp dinner, a band shows up, and there's plenty of beer. This was important because we actually stood in line for 5 hours to get our dinner! -M |
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The only way to bring mr. fish aboard was to hoist him in with the engine hoist |
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from our deck |
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A great bar band !! Played all the best new & old stuff. |
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The kids continue to work on their vollyball skills |
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OMG - A pile of little lobster tails. David made sure to order 2 dinners, one Lobster & Shrimp, the other Lobster & Fried Fish :) Absolutely one of the best meals we have had, all trucked in over 8 hrs of dirt roads and prepared about 10 meals at a time (for 600 people), by a crew of Madres y Abuellas |
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The Parking Lot at the Party |
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Leg Dos chart |
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Aargh he's a fine one matey's (Maureen likes that pirate talk!) |