Friday, February 12, 2010 at 3:56PM EE Richmond just kidding, still in cabo...
despite how unsuited cabo san lucas and i are to each other ive been held up here an additional couple days. i left yesterday around 11 am to head for the mainland but unfortunately the conditions were less than ideal for operating the crippled rig. still running under headsails alone and no mainsail kind of requires pretty calm seas for me to get everything functioning properly. as i pulled out of the bay yesterday i was immediately thrust into a pretty punchy chop. without the main to balance the boat she rolled from side to side as the contents of all my lockers, closets, drawers, etc exploded from their previously tidy homes. the real kicker was that the movement of the water was so extreme it was impossible to engage the autopilot for very long without it being thrown off course. so i hand-steered for about 4 hours, with was quite the work out as it required complete concentration and the full force of my body weight to keep the boat from burying her gunwhales too badly at each wave. it was kind of comical for awhile... nearly every 10 seconds i was hit square in the face with a couple bucketloads of water. but that obvsly got old pretty fast. so i brought her back in because a) it wasn't fun and 2.) even with trying to add some motor muscle to the equation i was only making about 1.5 knots in the direction i needed to go. what took me about 4 hours to get out to took only about an hour and a half to get back from. so i'm waiting til tomorrow AM where i should have a long enough calm stretch to get BOBBIE safely over to the mainland where I'll eventually be receiving the new mainsail. so im enjoying the sun, washing the slime of salt off the cabin topsides, eating the most delicious veggie sandwich of my life, and doing a bit of web work. talk soon. be well, buds.
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