Wednesday, 9 April 2014 – We left La Cruz later than planned as we had waited for our headsail which Tony delivered just before noon.  We paid Tony then settled our Marina account and did some general boat preparation. After getting fuel, we finally made it out of the marina at 1:30 pm., just at the right time to get a 20+ knot blast on the nose and short/sharp seas typical of Banderas Bay in the afternoon when there is a good thermal running. It seems the headland just above the marina increases the wind speed because after an hour of bouncing around, things settled down in the 12-15 knot range, but it was still on the nose.

Three hours and 10 miles later, we dropped the hook at Punta De Mita. There was some swell from the Southwest, but it had calmed down by late evening.