We've been listening to the off-shore weather forecasts. Sounded good for tonight and tomorrow, so we planned on leaving at 5 p.m. Roy went ashore to get clearance, while I washed the breakfast dishes, went for a little paddle, and enjoyed a refreshing swim. He came back disgusted, because he had to wait 2 1/2 hours, he couldn't communicate, and there seemed to be garbage all over the place. Nevertheless, he did get the clearance. It was supposed to be two dollars a person, but he didn't have four U.S. dollars, so he gave them 100 pesos, and they didn't give him any change, even though that was about $8.
In this area, the wind is supposed to die down at night. Har har de har har. As soon as we got outside the harbor, we were slammed by wind and wave. After an hour or two, we discussed turning back, but the brand new radar had quit working, and we didn't want to go into a harbor at night without radar, so we kept going.
This Blog is our mother's logs from her sails aboard Jofian. Our mother, Clare Holt, wrote a log every day and after her first sail to Mexico, she bought a laptop to write and save her logs. She sailed when the World Wide Web was first created, there was not as much on the Internet back then, no Wi-Fi, Internet access was very limited. I know if she were sailing today that she would be putting her logs in a Blog, so I am doing it for her. Mom’s logs to Alaska are on saillogsalaska.blogspot.com.
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