We had two beautiful days in Banderas Bay before we checked into Paradise Village. We arrived wednesday morning around 11 am and turned around by 12:30 to go out and participate in the Banderas Bay Blast. It is a wonderful three day race around the bay with the first leg going from paradise to La Cruz, second leg is from La Cruz to Punta Mita and the final leg is a spinnaker run back to Paradise Village.
Even though we are very tired we just completed the first two legs of the race still smiling and even speaking to one another! The first leg was a close reach on a long starboard tack and Di's Dream got off to a fabulous start and was able to hold off Destiny, a Catalina 42, and Circe, a Beneteau First. They had an incredible finish with just seconds between them.
Once we finished and headed up into the wind all sorts of alarms started sounding. Someone, maybe Rog, had said this would be a very mild day and no need to close the sink through hulls. That proved to be only the beginning of problems for the boat. Once we got into a slip an plugged the boat in we heard a very loud pop and immediately smelled smoke. After much searching and the help of a great electrician we figured out that the dock power had fried the inverter. With the help of West Marine and the fabulous John Platt we will soon be able to make coffee once more.
We arrived late at the start line after spending the morning removing the inverter and re wiring the second backup charger we had on the boat. We crossed the start just two minutes behind and quickly got into the fray. We had a great race with Destiny up to Punta Mita and thought we had made a bad tactical error when we held a port tack a bit too long however, once we ducked below them we had a better point on the finish and just edged them out by less than a minute. What fun we had for charity!
Today is leg three and we have enlisted Andy Burrow to help with the spinnaker run. It should make it easier on Di who just gets a bit anxious with all that sail up!
By 5pm we will be back in our slip and ready to sit still for a few days. No more races until next Wednesday.
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