Monday, May 21. We had only one thing to accomplish today, clear out of Honduras so that we could leave at first light tomorrow. It rained most of the morning. I got up as usual, but Deb slept in until nearly 10:00 and then I made us a nice brunch with sausage and eggs and real English muffins. As we were finishing, Wet Bar came by and said they couldn't get a Zarpe, the port captain said the weather was too bad so he would not issue a Zarpe to leave in this weather – come back tomorrow. I had never heard of anything like that. And the weather was not all that bad. I was wishing we were sailing East today as the wind was 15-20 from the West. The rain was a pain, but oh well. We waited until 2:00 and then went in. no problems with Migracion, he stamped our passports and charged $114L for the two of us. At the Port Captain, however, we got the same story Wet Bar had, weather is too bad to leave today. His English was worse than my Spanish, so I had to try to convince him that we needed the Zarpe today and do it in Spanish. I explained that we were a sail boat, that we needed the wind, that West wind was rare and we needed to grab it, that it was a long ways to Vivarillos and we needed to leave early (0600) to get there in good light, etc. About the third time through these arguments, he relented and wrote us our Zarpe for tomorrow @ 0600. I was very proud of my persuasive powers in Spanish! Now, if we can get wind like this tomorrow without the rain, we'll be golden.