PM on Tuesday November 20. She went 1 ¼ miles north to anchor in a protected bay for the night. We left for the Baja at 4:30 the next morning. We had one hour of pitch black; zero moonlight and a heavy overcast so no stars to steer by. Radar, GPS and common sense make these conditions reasonably safe. Plus we have left this anchorage before in both daylight and at night.
1st five hours underway: Sailing winds come and go-mostly go. Perhaps 15 minutes of sailing so far. Heavy cloud cover, its warm so we don't miss the sun.
A few minutes after wrote that the high water temperature alarm on the engine went off. We were 22 kt mi into a 70 kt mi passage so we shut the engine down and turned the boat around. For the next four hours I checked everything could think of while Rhea sailed the boat. Very light winds but she kept the boat moving. I eventually found the problem: a torn belt that was not turning the fresh water pump. Of course I started checking on the seawater side of the cooling system. We did have a spare
on board but by the time the repair was competed it was too late to continue, we would arrive after dark so we motored back to San Carlos. We could not get into the marina so we anchored where we were the night before.
Just before mid night high winds started and continued into the morning. They have room in the marina but we can't move because of the winds. Its 10:30 AM and still blowing "the white off the rice" so we are enjoying an "off day" at anchorage.
This was sent via ham radio, cool!.
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