Catamaran Marina is a real nice place for cruisers, and we've really enjoyed it here.
The owners of the Catamaran complex, Kevin and Louisa, invited all the cruisers over to their house last night for a farewell 'cocktail party'. We've really enjoyed hanging out with Kevin in the Tiki bar for football games, the pool bar for Happy Hour, and playing round-robin tennis on his tennis court. Kevin is also ex-Navy, so Dave and Kevin spent a few hours reminiscing about 'Navy days'. So when he heard that several of us were leaving for good, he organized a cocktail party to say goodbye.
Tonight, we repaid the hospitality and had Kevin and Louisa over for drinks and a 'boat tour'. And then we all went over to our friends on s/v Infini for more drinks and (better) hors d'ouvres. After Kevin left to attend to arriving hotel guests, we really enjoyed talking with Louisa about life in Guatemala in the 60's. She grew up here--her father was associated with United Fruit in Guatemala for many years.
We have all our chores done, there's no more room in the fridge, the freezer, or any of the lockers. We pull out of here at 8am tomorrow morning. (YAHOO, we're cruising again!)
Our plan is to check out of Guatemala at Livingston tomorrow afternoon, go out over the 'bar' about 3pm, and anchor overnight at Cabo Tres Puntas. We are still looking at the weather and trying to decide if it will be calm enough to head east on Saturday morning.
The offshore weather looks 'boisterous', but the near-shore weather looks reasonable. If we think it's going to be OK, we'll leave Tres Puntas about 5am Saturday and head for Punta Sal in Honduras, about 60 miles east. There is a good all-weather anchorage at Punta Sal where we can weather a few days of nasty weather, if we need to. The next stop after that should be Utilla, in the Bay Islands of Honduras.
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