We arrived at Utila on December 23. We had been beaten up on this first and shortest leg of our trip. The trip from Livingston, Guatemala where we checked out of the country began with sunny weather and a brisk wind. We made it across to Tres Punt
es and were beginning to make it around the peninsula and getting ready to raise the main. Fortunately, John saw the boom flopping around and we had lost a clevis pin that attaches the boom to the mast. We made a u-turn and I took the wheel in the lee of the peninsula and motored back and forth until John and Charlie got the problem resolved. The evening was fast approaching, once around the corner and heading for Utila we spent the next 20 hours in hardly any wind and what we had was clocking all around the boat. The bad part was the seas...8' and coming at us in all directions...it was pretty miserable, but "whatcha" gonna do? We also had the added squall with high winds that would hit ever so often and then be gone as fast as it came.
We hit the cut in the reef to enter the harbor in Utila at daybreak and in some major rain. We dropped anchor and just sat and looked at each other, too tired to do anything else at that point. Around 1:00 pm....we dropped the dinghy and made it to shore to check into Honduras. In the past this has been a very quick entry, but no not today. Four hours later, after many walks to this office and that shop to print more copies of our paperwork and Charlie taking the port captain out to our boat for pictures (this was a new one on us), we finally got that all important "entry stamp". It is now dark thirty and we have not had any sleep or eaten. We made our way to a new restaurant, Mango Tango and had frozen Mojitos...many frozen mojitos! And, then to our surprise a fabulous dinner. Full stomachs now and bed! |
| Hopefully she won't be Christmas dinner! |
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