Location: 23° 09 S, 44° 02W
Sunday 03.02.2008

On March 2nd, the Schooner Maggie B was at 23° 09S, 44° 02W. We were motoring due east at 7.7 knots for Cabo Frio. The wind is about calm, the skies clear and the swell 2-3 meters from the SE. The barometer is down to 1000, which is about 10 mB below what we normally see.

Cabo Frio (where we turn north) is 112 NM away, Salvador 687 and Antigua 2614. We have come 1301 NM from Buenos Aires.

Our plan is to be in the Salvador area, if not the town itself, on March 8th. That should give us at least a day to spare to stop to visit or play somewhere along the coast. We are just doing our homework on Buzios, Vitoria and the coast of Bahia. We surely could spend a month sailing around the Bahia de Todos Santos
in Bahia, but we will pick our spots as a function of weather and crew energy levels.

I mentioned earlier that we had gotten banged up a bit recently. John Steele, the owner of Covey Island that made Maggie B, our shipmate, friend and ever-ready at “mission control,” has suggested that we might consider entering a contest in Antigua that he won with his former boat, Marguerite. It is not the “Concors d’Elegance” but the “Concors de Negligence.” I was just a little hurt as we have not been at all negligent about taking care of Maggie, just she has added some….character. I consider the imperfections like perhaps the face of a Prussian Major in the old days with honorable scars here and there, and a tale about every one.

All is well.