April 14-16, 2001 Traveling to Ponce

On April 14, watching all of the day boaters zipping in and out of Boqueron, we decided that it would be a good time to move on. Sandra returned her rental car, and after she got back, we hoisted anchor and headed to Cabo Rojo to stage for our first run of the south coast of Puerto Rico. It was an easy run, and we dropped anchor in the Cabo Rojo bay about an hour and a half later. We spent the rest of the day lounging and reading after we made sure that everything that needed to be stowed was. On April 15, at 0848 GMT (about 4:48 AM EDT), we raised anchor headed for Ensenada. We were making such good time that we arrived at the entrance to Ensenada around 1100 GMT. We decided that it was so nice that we would continue on. We figured that if the winds came up, we could turn around and head back to Ensenada. The plan worked out because we dropped anchor at 1405 GMT in Ponce! Later on in the day, Iwi came in. So together with Sojourner (they were already there) and Iwi we headed into the Ponce Yacht Club to have drinks. We headed back out to the boat and spent the evening quietly. On April 16, we moved the boat from the anchorage to the fuel dock at the yacht club. After fueling up, we moved to the T head of B dock where we took a slip for the week. After due consideration, and a very wet dinghy ride back to the boat yesterday, we decided that it would make it easier to provision and to get the new inverter on the boat if we were at the dock. Besides the rates were $3.00 / foot for the week with our Boat US discount. We quickly hooked up power and flipped on the air conditioning and got comfortable.