Costa Rica to Acapulco, MX in a Nordhavn 56 Motorsailer - Ep. 23

We are back! It’s been a few months but we have finally gotten back to scrubbing through footage and hope to be posting a lot more in he near future.

This episode shows some of our passage from Marina Papagayo in norther Costa Rica to Acapulco Mexico. This was our second longest passage on the trip from Florida to Mexico at a little over 900 nautical miles. Nels (who helped bring the boat to Panama from Florida) returned to crew with his girlfriend Patty.

We didn’t experience any of the notorious sustained offshore winds across the Gulf of Tehuantepec, but we did get hit by some squalls with gusts over 30 knots an at one point our mainsail ripped at a seam near the top and we had to pull the sail down for the duration of the passage. We didn’t get any footage of the actual event because we were too busy dealing with dousing the sail in pouring rain and high winds.

We crossed through some really productive fishing grounds and caught Dorado and a big Sailfish (which we will show in another episode)

In Acapulco, we managed to find someone to repair the sail and had an interesting experience taking on fuel.
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