All
capes need to be treated with respect when navigating around them.
It's a given that a prudent sailor waits for the best wind conditions
for that particular spot and takes note of the advice in the pilot
book.
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| it's cold in the morning |
We
are going south and then east around the Cape where the prevailing
current sets north and there are points and headlands with shallow,
rocky water close to the cliff giving areas of potential confused sea
state. We have chosen to wait for the recommended light north
easterlies and to stay close as is safe to the shore where there
should be a counter current. It worked for us. We had an easy and
pleasant motor sail. It's also less than 15 miles until we were
sailing on a beam reach across the Bahia de Correntes, bay of
currents. We saw the lights of the dive resort at Maria Gorda, but
not having heard good things about either the diving or the welcome
of the resort to yachts, we didn't plan to visit.
By
dawn we were hard on the NNE wind, hoping we could make the angle to
Cayo Juan in the Cayo San Felipe group. At one point we thought we'd
have to bear off for Punta Frances on the south west corner of Isla
Juventud but the wind backed north and we arrived at 9am.
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