It is often said that sailing plans are written in sand. This must be because the wind, with great perversity, erases them. Sometimes there is too much wind, sometimes there is too little wind and sometimes the wind is just right. At around 4 PM on Thursday the wind started to blow, we shut off the engine and we have been sailing in wind that is just right ever since (time of writing: noon on Friday, 13 November 2009).

So, plans to stop in Turtle Bay to take on fuel have been erased by the wind and our new plan is to sail to Bahia Magdalena (“Mag Bay”), about 240 nm from where we are now. If the wind persists, we should be there in about 48 hours. If the wind persists, we won’t need to stop there either because we have enough fuel, water and food to make it all the way to Cabo san Lucas from that point. So the best plan we can articulate now is we might stop in Mag Bay and we might not. It all depends on the wind.