Saturday, 3 May 2014 – At 1:00 a.m. during my watch, the wind picked up for a while with a breeze of 10 knots and gusts to 16 knots however, by 3:00 am. when George came on watch it had dropped to 3 – 5 knots. The overnight was quiet with a clear sky and by morning the wind was down to 2 – 4 knots, but we had a clear sunny day and a calm sea. We passed within five miles of Punta San Lazaro and adjusted our course for San Hipolito.

At noon, we had covered 360 miles. Our fishing has not been too good as our only catch was a baby shark which was quite upset with us. We hauled him in and managed to free the hook before letting him go. He seemed none the worse for his encounter with us but what a set of teeth they have, even when they are babies.

I had plotted our course was towards Punta San Hipolito and I had chosen this course in case of poor weather. It was somewhere we could anchor behind a headland and wait out bad weather if needed.

At 2:10 pm. we sighted land just south of San Hipolito.  As the weather still looked good at 7:20 p.m. I changed course to head directly to Turtle Bay, we had covered 403 miles. The wind increased to 14 knots, so we managed to put up all sail and give the engine a rest.

As I came on watch at midnight, we had covered 427 miles and headed directly to Turtle Bay in a light cool wind and a calm sea.