During the night, the wind shifted to come from west, where this anchorage had no protection. When we woke up on Monday morning (January 23), it was very uncomfortable. We got Kosmos ready to go and pulled up anchor at 0700, as the sky was starting to lighten, but before the sun came up. Moin and The Mob were right behind us, going to the same destination. 

It was a 5-hour ride to San Evaristo. When we first left, the seas were rocky and uncomfortable, but it smoothed out after an hour or so. From then on, the ride wasn’t bad. As the day progressed, the winds calmed down, which probably helped. We pulled into the anchorage at about noon.

Here was the sunrise on Saturday, January 21

The wind picked up overnight and was screaming by the morning. The wind caused a lot of noise — the wind itself was loud, the anchor chain/bridle moved a lot, waves slapped against the boat instead of gently lapping the boat, the wind generator sounded like a motor, and there were just a lot of thumps and rattles when the boat moved a lot. In addition to the sound, it was also rocky and uncomfortable. None of us slept well and we were all up early. As soon as there was enough light outside, we put both flopper stoppers down. That helped dampen the roll, but we were still moving a lot.

On Thursday, January 19, the little sliver of the moon was again in the east as the sun rose underneath it.

We left for shore at noon. Our plan was to walk over to the ferry terminal to catch the 1230 bus. As we pulled up to the beach, a man walked up to us and asked how we liked the Torquedo electric motor. He and Eric chatted for a few minutes. Then Christi said “We don’t want to be rude, but we have to leave. We’re going to the ferry terminal to catch a bus into town.”

And the man said “Would you like me to give you a ride into town?” We took him up on his offer. His wife was waiting in their van. It turned out they were former cruisers. And they also went cruising with son, who was a teenager at the time. They eventually switched from traveling via boats to traveling via a camping van.