Jan 26th - 30th, 2008: After an early morning departure from Yelapa, we rounded Cabo Corrientes without difficulty. First lesson learned; even if you cleaned your boat bottom 2 weeks ago, Banderas Bay (and more specifically the anchorage off La Cruz) is amazing at growing beards on boats! Clean your bottom before rounding!
We were not able to make the speed we had hoped, but since our first stop was Ipala, 15 miles around the corner, it shouldn't be a problem. We arrived at Ipala about 10:30 in the morning and spent about 45 minutes anchoring. Ultimately, Bill (me) didn't like the limited room with the fish nets, etc. and decided to push off for Chamela, another 50 miles down the coast.
If the bottom had been clean, no problem. As it was, we couldn't squeeze more than 6 kts. out of Wirewalker so we arrived after dark into Chamela. First, my apologies to the crew, who didn't sign on for that kind of adventure! What made it better was our chartplotter's ability to overlay radar onto charts so we could tell where the land "really was" vs. the 150 year old charts. To add to that, we had some friends 'inside' Chamela already who relayed waypoints for rounding the entrance and avoiding an extensive outlying rock group. Very handy.
With the anchor down at 9:00 pm, we enjoyed a superb meal and rest. We spent 5 days in and around Chamela, enjoying the land and the sea.
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