Hello Again Today 130 boats left Turtle Bay for Bahia Santa Maria. That is alot of sailboats all sailing the same direction. As usually happens we had problems geting the sails up properly. It was just one thing after another but we finially got them up. Of course we were at the end of the pack by then. All was relatively quite the rest of the day. The wind was light and everyone was flying the biggest sails they had on board. Mostly spinikkers. We don't carry a spinakker any more and set two head sails off the bow of the boat instead. This way we are able to go straight downwind where most boats can't do that. We can also roll up one, or both of the sails depending on how much wind there is. We at 9 pm the wind came up and I mean up to 20 to 30 knots and it really got crazy! We went from 4 knots to sailing at 8 knots. This is almost as fast as we have ever gone. The other boats all around us were really having problems. They had their spinakkers up and it was almost imposible to get the m down in one piece. We had boats going eveywhere and all three of us were on deck. We went from near the back of the pack to near the front in about an hour or so. We were passing big fast boats left and right because our sails worked and theirs were nothing but problems. Then the wind got to much for our two head sails and we made this big siliding motion through the water. Frankly it scared everybody, even though it wasn't that dangerous. We we rolled in one of the head sails and all was well again. The wind has calmed down but the adrenilin is still runing so it's hard to sleep. We still have boats around us that are trying to untangle their spinakkers out of their rigging. You will notice no picture tonight. There is not much point sending you a picture of a pitch black night as there is no moon. Well its my watch, gota go. Larry