80 Miles North of Turtle Bay

We spent Monday night under power as the wind died as soon as we got out past Todo Santos Island and turned south. We had a brief idea that we would be able to sail all the way to Turtle Bay when we got the sails up just outside the harbour entrance. Oh well.
We motor sailed until midmorning Tuesday when the wind came up enough to hoist all sails. We sailed full rig for a couple of hours until again the wind died. By 16:30 however, the wind steadied up and the motor went off again. We have been wing on wing since then. It's now 04:30 and we've had a good sled ride dead down wind wing on wing. We had full main and headsail until a couple of hours ago. We started hitting 8 knots consistently so reefing became a good option. We're still averaging over 6 knots which will get us to Isla Cedros early afternoon. We've decided to stop there for a night so we can make sure to arrive in Turtle Bay in daylight on Thursday. The boat we met up with in Ensenada, Nausicaa, left a few hours before us and we have seen them each night. We talked to them on the VHF earlier and they headed closer to shore to fish, apparently quite successfully. They have offered us fresh fish when they get to Isla Cedros (who needs a fishing license anyways). We passed them tonight (everyone knows that whenever there is another boat around there is always some small element of competition). I recently sent an email to a friend with the statement "Our philosophy is that it's not who gets there first, but rather who gets there". Somehow that statement seems at odds with the small feeling of satisfaction I got earlier when I realized we had passed Nausicaa. Hypocrisy is wonderful thing, as long as you realize it I guess. I can live with it!

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