Sailing away from Panama and Las Perlas
Exocet Strike
John & Stella Dyer
Fri 13 Feb 2015 19:36
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We're on our way again, whohoo. After a few great
days on the Las Perlas Islands, mostly around Contadura we have set sail again
as a fleet bound for Galapagos.
You may notice from our tracker that many of us are
heading more south than direct, reason is that the winds should be better for us
this way, the perceived wisdom is to sail south and not cross the equator until
084 deg west. The weather info we have seems to confirm this, however since we
are crossing the ITCZ, or doldrums, an area where there can often be little wind
one minute and a near gale with lots of rain another, we need to keep our wits
about us.
One of our fleet sent out a group message to say
they had just seen a 40 foot whale, must have been close to us, but we never saw
it. Ditto another boat saw another whale about 10 mins later.
Brian and Dain have just sighted Dolphins around
our boat, and we saw a turtle about an hour ago, so lots of life around
here.
John
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