We left Salinas on the morning of November 28, and anchored just 6 miles away at Boca de Infierno to scrape the boat bottom and propeller, and rest. We buddy-boated with our friends Pip and Luz for the first part of this trip and enjoyed their company very much.
In Patillas, we anchored for a couple of days, waiting for weather. We saw this parachute sailor in the anchorage. Later the couple both tried windsurfing.
On the way to the west coast of Vieques Island, we left in a bit too much wind and had a real shake-down of the boat. We had the footrest platform on the bowsprit come loose; we were able to retrieve it, but it will need replacing. Then we were taking water into the anchor locker; Larry realized this when water poured out of the locker over our bedding in the V-berth. We lost the cover for the windlass. Then the jury-rigged depth sounder came loose and we had to do another jury rig on a pole to lower the sounder when we take readings. We need to replace the sounder with a permanent one when we get to a boatyard.
Here is a photo of Pip's boat underway from Vieques, where we anchored for one night, on our way to Culebra.