This 36 hour leg of of our journey stretched to 44 due to a 2 knot current against us for a lot of the trip.
Cuauhtemoc in Acapulco looking good after hitting the Brooklin bridge last year and losing part of her mast.A goodbye sunset
We raced a cruise ship out of the bay.
The cruis ship won!School work on the high seas.This was a turtle fest. Worried we might hit one.Pulled into Bahia Chachacual, one of the nine bays of Hualtuco. On our last visit here 20 years ago most of the bays were secluded quiet anchorages. Fonatur the government agency that gave us Cancun and Ixtapa developed Hualtuco 25 years ago and it looks like it finally caught on. Between 10 & 2 it was a madhouse Ferries and pangas and private boats flying around. At least we had a few hours to enjoy the solitude. This is where you have to anchor to wait out a weather window to cross the dreaded Tuantepecs. Unfortunately the best anchorage, Santa Cruz, is full of pangas so there is no room for visitors. There is Marina Chauay but it is silted in. We could have gone in on high tide but they had no room. So we anchored on the side of the channel next to the cruise ship dock and waited for the port captain to kick us out. Fortunately the didn’t bother us even though we were right next to a naval destroyer.
HOMEPAGE Adventures with Dr. John 