Beautiful Sail Beautiful Day

Monday morning after a peaceful sleep and a lazy breakfast we lifted our anchor and headed out of Mag Bay. On our way out we went over to check on the 38 ft sailing vessel Spanish Stroll whom we had met at Baja Naval last week. Their crew consists of a woman and her 15 y/o daughter and 12 y/o son. They are on their way to Panama on a mission . I'm not sure but I think it's LDS. It took them a week to get to Turtle Bay stopping twice but at least they didn't have the gale force winds and big seas that we had on Sat. I'll look up their blog to share if you are interested.

We started out with our doubled reef main in 15 kts and still running a large swell. By 12:15 we shook out both reefs with winged Genoa. Sailing on a port tack. Sunny and beautiful sailing. Basically the same most of the day between 15 and 20kts. But had to put the reefs back in for a while. Then around 2100 we had a 60 degree wind shift with lighter air, reefs shook out again.

Around 0230 Al and I were on watch in even lighter wind and had to take down the pole and the Genoa. All was going well the Genoa was furled and Al was lifting the but end to stow the pole on the mast track when the fitting broke that holds it in the track. So of course it hits Al on his head. The pole must weigh 50 lbs. He was looking up at it at the time so it hit and cut open his forehead . He is all patched up and seems to be ok. We all could have done with out that incident, especially Al.