On the dock for a few days of good beer and food

Our 3:00 a.m. departure gave us a decent amount of sleep, and once we got moving, Jack headed back to bed for a few more hours. We had a nice current helping us along. Rounding the point of land can usually bring crazy eddies and odd boat behavior, but we didn’t run into any of that today. When I handed the helm over to Jack, I tried to get more rest, though I struggled squeezing in just one more hour. A nice sunrise and some coffee helped make up for the lack of sleep.

During Jack’s watch, our speed dropped to 5.8 knots for a stretch. After I came back on deck, we picked back up into the low sixes and stayed there for the rest of the trip. The wind and waves treated us well, and we arrived 90 minutes earlier than expected. The marina was only about half full, so we got to pick of the slip we wanted and tied up without any trouble. We ended up pulling the boat over to the starboard side because the wind was pushing us hard against the dock and beating up our fenders. With a tricky setup of dock lines, we got Strikhedonia sitting perfectly off the dock and backed deep into the slip.

After a shower and a quick cleanup, we headed to the microbrewery for a celebratory drink since this wrapped up our last long passage. We have covered 300 nautical miles over the past nine days, which was a lot of moving. From here south to Loreto, we will take things slow. We’ll have plenty of time to explore our stops, sleep in, take naps, and probably play a lot of card games. The beer was great, though a bit filling. We also enjoyed chatting with a couple of recently retired guys from Texas who were driving down to Cabo, where they live now. With beer in our bellies, we headed over to Tonka’s for dinner, hoping they had ribs.

The walk felt good after spending so many hours sitting on the boat. When we walked in, my friends who own the place weren’t there yet, but we lucked out, they had ribs on the menu and plenty of cold beers. With full stomachs and heavy eyelids, we stopped at Splash! to get ice cream for Jack, I was completely stuffed. Right after that, it was straight to bed.