Eat Your Heart Out Willie Nelson
16 December 2009 | Boca Santa Krus, Curacao
Santa Krus Sunset
December 16
Charts, skivvies, tool purchase, car return, motored through narrow cut out of Spanish Water around noon 30. Conditions were remarkably benign, 2 - 3 foot quartering seas and 12 - 15 knots wind, but rolly enough to displace one crew's breakfast into Caribbean. Drugs will precede next outing. Tacked away from land for better ride with single reefed main and yankee, then back into Boca Santa Krus. Wind picked up last few hours for wonderful beam reach at 9+ over ground with favorable current. Now firmly hooked to ground with two other boats in idyllic narrow anchorage between cliffs facing white sand beach. All crew have recovered remarkably. Plan cleaning of big and little boat bottoms and prop tomorrow in preparation for 4 day crossing to Cartagena.
Boom made me proud. Only aggravation is reefing tack without ramshorn (no Cal, naughty boy, there are no sheep aboard (punch line for which you may formulate your own joke - "I know, but you picked the ugliest one!")). Used 7/16" line as replacement, but have no proper way to secure. All to be established in the fullness of time.
Major excursion into haute cuisine (for cruising) with chorizo and brocoli in brown rice and grilled chicken breast, followed by after-sundowner soda pops and prune tort with crew of Jackster.
On the road again and life is good.
Jack