The weather guru of the Caribbean, Chris Parker said today is the day you better leave Providencia as it is the ONLY day we will NOT have winds from the north. So up with the anchor and off we went. The first day was pleasant with the sails full and sunshine. Seas were calm with 15 knots of wind filling the sails on the second day. THEN we were at the cape of Honduras, no wind, 2 1/2 knots of negative current on our nose, TERRIBLE CONFUSED SEAS
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as you see on the radar below, we hit the squalls.....the big pink blob around our boat is all the tall, thick rain clouds!!
It only gets better....S/V Espiritu downloaded a weather map that said it was going to get worse!!! We made the decision to alter course from Isla Mujeres, Mexico (2 more nights of sailing) to Roatan, Honduras (one more night in this @#%$#$^%#$weather).
Talaria at anchor in the quiet French Harbor of Roatan. Good decisions can still be made at sea by old, tired sailors.
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