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About 2 miles from our anchor location in Asuncion last night at 2100
hrs with an amazing meal of lamb sausage, sauteed veggies and brown rice awaiting, the engine died. Fuel guage read empty. We hoisted sails and tacked for the next maybe 2 hours before deciding to drop hook in 50'. Good experience for anchoring under sail. And finally around 11 pm we ate dinner and fell hard asleep in our bunks wondering how we were ever going to get some diesel. It delayed us about 10 hrs but Jean and Bonnie were able to score 60 gallons! The people at Asuncion were super and very efficent. They brought it to us in jerry jugs and Francis and Jean spent the next hour siphoning diesel into our main port tank. We were full and our wonderful engine fired up with a few turn on the ignition and a thrust of throttle. After a great lunch by Jean we hauled anchor and headed out. We are now motor sailing toward Cedros. We will skip Turtle Bay and pick up more fuel in Cedros and check out there instead of Ensenada. Couple of tips for my friends Harry and Susanne on their Island Packet who are following behind me next week. 1. Bring more diesel than you think you need. 2. It is GREAT to have crew to help with watches ... and just have fun with. We are on a 2 hour rotation and we love it. Lots of time for napping and staying warm. 3. After leaving Falso we found the sea conditions extremely better close into shore. Maybe 2 miles out. The rhumb line was terrible. 4. We rounded Punta Tosca in the early evening by coming up in its lee and going around. It worked great. Seas calmed down close to land and made it easy to go around. 5. If you can connect with a fisherman in Bahia Santa Maria request a ride up the mangroves to the end and then hike into the sand dunes. They also sold us yummy lobster. 6. For us the passage to Abroejos was the worst. I would say if you have time and the winds are bad, duck into San Juancio and wait! 7. We have been motor sailing about 30 degrees off the wind and our rumbline with either a double or single reefed main, tacking back and forth and happy when we have a VMG of 3. It is a pretty comfortable ride below. Looking forward to checking out at Cedros, skipping Turtle Bay and Ensenada and seeing the shoreline of San Diego!
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