Golfito, Costa Rica

Posted 10 March 2011

We left Isla Del Cano at 02:45 am and had no wind, so motoring it was. We had the current against us for about 3 hours and then it improved. We got wind when we were turning into Dulce Golf and were sailing nicely downwind. We arrived just after 4 pm in the afternoon in a beautiful Golfito.  We had our first rain since we left Vancouver just after we anchored. This was great cooled the boat down a bit. It is extremely hot and even with the fans going full speed the average temperature during the day is between 32 and 35 degrees Celsius inside the boat.

We are currently at Fish Hook marina doing some work on the boat. Today was the big washing the boat day. Dinis washed all the standing rig. Took all morning and in the afternoon we vinegar washed the boat and soap washed all the canvas.

Tomorrow we have to wash all the sails and the rest of the boat. We decided that we will get somebody at the marina to do the polishing, just not enough energy left. Where is 'Morgie' now ? Dinis will do another bottom cleaning just before we go.

We decided that we will do all our major provisioning from here. The Panama border is just 35 miles and they have nice shops at the border. This will save us at least 2 days going there by boat and do the shopping. The prices of grocceries are just much cheaper in Panama. We will check out the next weather window to make our way to Galapagos. Will take us between 7 to 12 days to get there. We hope to leave here around 15 March, depending on weather.