Cruise to Zfest (Part 2)

Tuesday Jan 16th 2018 ;  0745  Underway from Ipala to Chamela motor sailing. 

 Had motor off for about 5 mins but then our speed dropped below 5 kts, which sort of is our prompt to turn the engine on.  Motoring at 6 kts against a counter current of 1 kt with main and staysail.

1500 wind at 12kts aft. We used the preventer on the main most of the day, sometimes with the genne and sometimes without.

1608 anchor down in Chamela in 36 ft of water. Calm seas and about 10 kts of breeze.   52.6 nm 8hrs and 24mins .  It was a long tiring day in the sun for JL and when a now new friend Wes from the steel sailboat Arcola came by in his kayak to invite us to meet him and two other boat owners on the beach for an earlier dinner we didn’t immediately commit but after a second thought we deployed the dinghy and were off.   This landing was much drier as the town has dredged the river so you can enter the river and pull out on a sandy bank instead of the typical surf landing.  Great shrimp/ veggie brochettes and garlic shrimp.  A dark ride back to the boat and and the regular chore of lifting the dinghy onto the davits for the night.  It’s a safety thing, so we’d be ready to leave the achorage if we had to in the middle of the night and also to help prevent theft.

Wes on  ARCOLA, Ric and Mary on QUE SERA ,Marlyn and Steve on TOCATA...and Al.   

Wednesday Jan.17th 2018 :       What a rolly uncomfortable night.  We had planned on staying a day and walking into the town of Perula but decided to move on.

1045 anchor up, no sails motoring to the other side of the bay to Parisio 8 miles to the south east.  Using the boat chart plotter, my iPad Navionics and Shawn and Heathers Cruising guide we successfully avoided all the reefs and rocks.

 

Chamela

Reef extending a quarter nm off Punta Perula 

Passing in front of Isla Parjarera and Isla Covinas.  Flat Top Point in the background.

Going in the little cove of Parisio to anchor

Anchor down at 1245 in 18 ft of water with 75 ft of chain.  Wind 8-12 kts till about 2000.  Good size swells pass by the entrance of the cove and crash into the cliffs on both sides but hardly any effect us.  We will see tonight how rolly it is.

Looks like a hippy Hotel. 

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