San Carlos to Isla Carmen – 1/8 thru 1/12/11We motored out of the San Carlos Marina on Saturday morning (1/8) and were met with a nice 20 knots of westerly wind. We turned onto a south course of 180 degrees toward Isla Carmen setting sail with a double reefed main, full jib and settled onto a beautiful beam reach. Under sunny skies, we were averaging 6.5 knots (Tom’s high speed was 7.4 – mine was only 7.3). Just what the brochure promised! OK, let’s forget the bumpy, rolly seas that felt like trying to float across a Jacuzzi tub. I’ll remember it as a beautiful maiden voyage and thank goodness that we both have “iron stomachs”.
By dusk, the wind clocked around to the north, settled down, and by 0200 the wind quieted to 5-10 knots so we became a motorsailer for the rest of the way (~10 hrs) to Isla Carmen.
As morning broke, we listened to Don Anderson’s weather forecast on the Single Sideband (SSB) radio and learned Isla Carmen was right on a dividing line between a light North breeze and a light South breeze. At that time, our wind was from the south so we chose to anchor at Bahia Cobre (Copper Bay) on the East side of the island. It’s well protect from the South and West - and actually any light wind is not much of a concern given Begone’s 45 pound CQR anchor. Bahia Cobre was a lovely little anchorage that we had all to ourselves. Another promise kept from that brochure!
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