50 miles out

We managed to clear out of Mexico officially, and it only took 3 hours. What a bureaucratic process that was. Anyways, done, done and done. We picked up our fresh groceries and were back at the boat before 3 pm and after stowing the dinghy, solar panels, flushing and stowing the outboard, stowing the groceries and generally making sure everything was secure, we upped anchor at 16:15. The wind was 15 knots from the west and we wanted to go west so we started our trip sailing to weather. Oh well, I never claimed to be a gentleman. The wind has stayed constant so no fuel burned other than what was required to get us out of the anchorage. The seas are 3 meters or so and the wind has stayed steady at 10-15 knots. We are close reaching and generally heading in the right direction. We are paralleling our intended track about 10 miles south of it. We are almost out to 105 degrees west and hopefully the winds will continue to veer more north and we can ease of the wind somewhat. It may take another 12-24 hours though. We'll just have to see how it goes. We are doing an informal sched with Toketie at 02:00 and 14:00 UTC on 3870 or 3880 MHz. I have also stared checking in with Pacific Seafarers so they call us now every night.
There is a lovely full moon tonight which helps with watches and all in all the boat is performing extraordinarily well. The Monitor wind vane has had the helm since the sails went up and is doing a stellar job steering up over and down the swells.

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