After a restful recovery day, we made the short day-sail on 4/2 from Mag Bay to Bahia Santa Maria.

As we headed out from Bahia Magdalena, we had all working sails (AWS aka All White Sails aka Main, Jib and Stays’l) set with no reefs. We were close hauled and hoped to make it to Bahia Santa Maria in one tack. We set up Ginger (the Monitor windvane) to steer and the wind built. We got up to 7.2 knots boat speed, tucked in a reef in jib and main and the boat speed only fell a little but the rail came out of the water. Shortly, as the wind built and our speed picked up past 7 knots again, we tucked the second reef in to the main and jib. The wind continued to build so we furled the jib entirely and were close hauled with stays’l and 2 reefs in the main, making 6 knots. By this point, we’d tacked twice and were headed into the bay. We found a calmer spot at the head of the bay and anchored for the night.

After checking the weather we decided to stay another day before the next leg (135 miles as the crow flies, directly into the wind, probably 55 hours). Today we knocked items off the To Do List including making fresh water, brownies, and yoghurt in preparation for tomorrow. The crew was stood down (given the rest of the day off) after lunch (photo of Linda and Kay playing cribbage).