Onward to Florida

5-10-92 - Passage to Florida
Gonna bite the bullet, nice wind from the East and pretty brisk, going thru the channel on the North side of Mujeres the waves are also very big, but should settle down once we get out to sea a ways. At first we go like a bat outa hell, but the the wind shifts more to the North again and we are sucked into the loop current that goes clockwise around the Gulf. I consider going on the Starboard tack and let the current take us windward until we are out of the slipstream and in hindsight that is exactly what we should have done, Themroc a few days later does exactly that and has no problems at all. I decide to keep pushing on hoping for a wind shift and a quick exit to the north of this current. Essence relays their progress every morning and evening so we know what to expect, we are following in thier footsteps.