We departed from Santa Cruz, Galapagos on Monday the 29th at 12:45pm. Very slow start, not a great deal of wind so spent a bit of time motoring. On the plus side we had the chance to chat with two other passing sailboats: Chanticleer and Wiz. Both are now long past us and out of sight, but it was nice to "meet" another kid boat heading to Nuka Hiva too.
Currently we are quietly sailing along slowly with full sails. A long slow swell hitting us on the beam, but it is fairly comfortable. The Maple crew are all doing well, although it didn't start out that way this morning. It was near mutiny by the youngest crew this morning when the Captain and First Mate insisted on school the first morning of the passage. Honestly you would think we were asking them to row us across the Pacific with all the complaints. In the end, the swabs reluctantly followed through on their orders. But I have to give them credit, they both did their watches today without complaint.
No fish caught yet, but Nawii promised us we would catch a 25kg tuna so we are holding them to that. I guess we still have plenty of time to make that happen. As we were leaving Galapagos yesterday, we had a manta ray give us a good bye jump plus we had loads of blue footed boobies doing their dive bombing from insane heights into the water around us while they fished. This morning we saw some dolphins in the distance doing some jumps, but they chose not to come say hello. Perhaps they were keeping their distance from the whining.
I am holding out for repeat conditions tonight like last night. Calm conditions, no squalls, lots of stars, and me dancing in the helm without D and the girls rolling their eyes at my epic dance moves.
PS: Just a reminder to please start a new email if replying to us. Unfortunately we are still really struggling to find a station we can reliably connect to send and receive email, so any help we can get with not downloading unnecessary text, is a huge help. I do love hearing from people though!! Thanks.
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At 2019-04-30 20:27 (utc) our position was 02°01.43'S 091°59.69'W
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