Left Marina Chiapas after Naval inspection and the drug sniffing dog came aboard at 11am. Motored and waited for Cynosure with Phil single handing. Raised sails in 5-8 knots of wind so that the motor was needed. Replacement Garmin Echo 100 depth sounder was working fine as we made 5.6 knots along the coast. Through the afternoon and night it was uneventful until the "bilge alarm" went off at about 10:30pm. Barb thought to try turning off our fresh water pump and the alarm stopped soon after that. That meant that we had a leak somewhere in our fresh water supply.
By 0300, I had fixed it.
We sailed smartly to Salina Cruz then turned into the wind to motor into the choppy seas at an agonizing 3-4kts until about 0300 when we got beyond Cabo something or other and the seas calmed somewhat the remaining 54nm to Huatulco and Marina Chahue. Came in through the breakwater and tied up at 0900am Wednesday. We went much faster across the last half of the Golfo, but much slower from Salina Cruz to Huatulco so we came in about the time we planned. We earned a good rest so I will leave you here.
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