4 days of excellent downwind, down-sea, and down-current sailing from Jamaica to Guanaja on our longest passage to date!
Day one we had to motor through lightning storms as we sailed along the North Coast of Jamaica. That night the wind built and we were able to fly screecher and main and make good time. On day two the spinnaker went up and didn’t come down until we began our approach to Guanaja!
There was too much sargassum for fishing under spinnaker power most of the time, but we managed a couple tiny mahi on the last day.
All in all, it couldn’t have been a much better passage. Though, it would have been sweet if our brand new wind instrument didn’t fail on the first day. Definitely rode the edge off what our spinnaker could handle as we guessed wind speeds.
Leaving Jamaica was bittersweet. We had an awesome group of people at dock in Port Antonio we hated to part with. We LOVED Jamaica, which we did not anticipate.
Making this passage alongside
@bri and
@Erin was awesome. We arrived within a few hours of one another and we can’t wait to explore Guanaja! We were glad to have friends close by in that lightning storm, especially because they have a taller rig!
