Puerto Rico to Panama day 5
Moxie - Beck Family Adventure
Mike, Denise, Asia and Aranya Beck
Tue 11 Mar 2014 16:03
Noon Pos 10.52.81n 077.15.68w
Date 11 March 2014 noon local time
Wind 18kts
Speed 7kts
24hr Run 177
to go. 120
Wind has been over 20 Knots past 24hrs, dropped spinnaker about 1am as we were skewing around something akin to supermario brothers cart racing as we surfed on the big stern quarter swell, boat speed touching 16 knots on occasion. A good days run. We have slowed it all down now to make a daylight arrival tomorrow at the San Blas islands, 60 miles along the coast from Colon the, from all accounts, aptly named city at the Eastern canal entrance.
Blimming city folks at Puerto Rico passed on a cold to Aranya who has suffered mildly while incubating a man flu potency strain which has since targeted me. Asia awakes this morning with sore throat so we are a bunch of tired, snivelling, coughing sailors aboard Moxie.