Days 46-47: Luperon to Samana

Trip Start Nov 10, 2010
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Flag of Dominican Republic  , Samaná,
Sunday, January 9, 2011

Finally we were out of Luperon! We had spent about 2 weeks anchored in the bay, which many compare to a Swiss lake than a Caribbean harbor. The whole time we were there the bay was dead calm and we were completely unaffected by the ocean swells. The bay has a narrow entrance and with over a hundred other boats anchored inside, there wasn't much water circulation. We essentially were floating in a pool of everyone's sewage. It wasn't terrible while we were there, but weighing anchor and cleaning the bottom of the dinghy wasn't very much fun. Anyway, we were off and moving again, so the mood on Strolla increased dramatically. 

The first half of the journey was routine motor sailing. Back into the swing of things. At around 10pm, it was my turn at the helm and Nate shouts down to me that it was starting to drizzle so I should grab my rain coat. No more than 30 seconds from taking over, the drizzle turned into an absolute downpour. The shore lights that were no more than a half mile to our south completely disappeared. Lightning was striking on every quarter. A rain jacket did nothing. Instead I should have grabbed my soap and shampoo. At this point we were rounding Cabo Francis Viejo, and the unpredictable cape currents made our GPS path look like 3 year old scribble. The storm lasted almost exactly 1 hour. 1 hour of nonstop faucet water pouring out of the sky. The rain was strong enough that I couldn't look up to see our heading so every 5 seconds Pete was shouting up to me "turn port" or "turn starboard" from his dry nook in the cabin. 

Once again, Strolla proved her reliability and we kept on chugging. We rounded Cabo Samana just after sunrise the next morning and were anchored before noon. 'Nother day, 'nother port, life continues...

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