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2e day at sea after Isla Mujeres

The weather forcast told us a steady wind from the NE, 15 to 20 knots.


To good to be true. It wasn’t true at all.

Just before the night, this picture of … the clouds.

At night we passed Cozumel going between the mainland and Cozumel. Generally I don’t like to sail to close to shore. The pass between Cozumel and the mainland of Mexico is some 20 miles at it’s narrows. There is a lot of current, between 1.5 and 3 knots from South to North.

In the morning we could do a course of 180 degrees. At 13.00 the course was 208 degrees, not enough to bring us on the east side of the Chinchorro bank. We tacked and we could do just 30 degrees. This means we would not
make a lot of progress with the current and the wind from the south both against us.

Sirena was still following us.

Hoping that the weather forecast would be right in the long run we made plans to go between the Chinchorro bank and the mainland.

#ing2#
If everything stayed the same this would happen during the night.

We tacked back on a course of 245 degrees at 3.00 in the morning. From bad to worse.

We lost contact with . No visual contact, no radio-contact. We didn’t see them in the morning. I kept trying incidentally on channel 16, but no avail.

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