Bound for Bahia Santa Maria

The start of leg two was moved up to 11:00 so we had to hustle to get things ready, but everything turned out fine. Paul decided to start us at the back and work our way through the fleet.  It was brilliant.  Being one of the faster boats in the fleet, why start at the front and be by ourselves the whole time? By starting at the back, we got to see all the boats, take some great pictures, and show some Krishna to the rest of the fleet.

The sailing is perfect—a spinnaker run all day as we worked our way through the pack. Ray set the new trip speed record surfing a wave at 18 knots; we ate BBQ'ed steaks for dinner; and best of all, we passed Pipe Dream, the lead boat, in full Krishna costume. What a day. The only downer was that I tore the big red spinnaker by letting it drape over the point of one of the amas (AKA outriggers). Now we're back to our next biggest headsail, the maxi-reacher.