Noonthirty and we have 30 miles to go, we can see the faint out line of land ahead and the oil rigs that are out her. Still a long way to go. We had hoped to be clearing customs around 3pm but that doesn’t seem to work out with a strong head current the boat speed is 9+ through water but our speed over ground is in the 7 knot range, that means 30/7= 4 hrs to till we make the turn through around the back side of Trinidad. That means we’ll be paying the after hours fine for gettting to customs outside their open hours. We might should have left at midnight or something. Didn’t get much sleep anyway, waiting on the sun to come up, and checking every 30 mins or so.

So far we have had small winds, except when it showered a couple of times, we got some nice wind and shut down the engine or engines.

Right now we have full sails and both engines running around 2,000 rpm – putting miles of water under the boat, 67 miles of water under the boat, if that was over ground we would only have 9 miles to go but since the current is going the other direction we are having to work a bit harder to go south. Its beautiful blue sunny skies, but the drone of the engine is a bummer, but we have to get there so we burn diesel to make sure we get there in daylight.

We sent an email to the marina, and they are expecting us. That is always a good thing. They gave us their GPS coordinates so that we can try and find them, and to expect another email in the morning. The problem was the GPS coordinates were incomplete, that put them 85 miles away from us when they should have been 35, so I guessed a that the “6” was really a “61” and that put them right where they belong.

Back to the big blue watery road..