We thought we had a pretty good opportunity to cross the Mona today. However, the Coast Guard screwed up their Navtex broadcast again! So we didn't have the correct off shore report available to us. We invited everyone over to review charts, weather and have a potluck lunch. Kokopelli, Pamela, and Masade attended. After lunch, we charted out the two options we had. One was to follow the guide, which we dubbed the 'dog leg route'; and the other was to make a straight shot, which the guide said we could do in the right conditions.
After lunch, everyone returned to their boats to get ready to get underway. We all tuned in to Herb to get his take on the weather around the Mona Passage. Unfortunately, thanks to some Italians having a radio conversation over top of Herb, we could not hear him! We decided not to leave because we did not have sufficient weather information.
We went to dinner with Sue and Leon from Masade instead. At dinner we saw Mack and Julia from Journey. We chatted with them for a little while before heading back to the boats.
April 2 was pretty much a repeat of April 1, except that we didn't have a potluck lunch or go out to dinner!
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