PERU - September, October, November 2010

Enroute from Isla de la Plata to Lima, Peru
September 2010
We became the trailblazers as not many boats have gone this route-currents and winds are not always in the boaters favor. So we took off from Isla de la Plata, Ecuador and one day out our radar stops working. Great, so this means we have about a 500 mile journey, many nights to travel, oil wells off the northern coast of Peru, fishing boats, no fog (thank god) and what to do?  Marc, great captain that he is, takes the first nights watch for 7 hours so that I am not a bitc….from lack of sleep. Thereafter we do 6 hours each and I get the early morning shift from 4am – 10am.  Every morning I get to see the sunrise, to see the world come alive. The lack of radar gives a new challenge to our cruising and Marc charts us to have an anchorage every night or two.  We can’t make landfall because we have already checked out of Ecuador and will not check into PERU until we get to Lima.  Marc has documented every location that we stopped and we now can share this info with fellow boaters.  We were told and advised not to stop in Peru until we had checked in but we took the sailor’s 5th Amendment “if you are tired ( we would be) have needed boat repairs (what boat doesn’t? or can’t say they have) or need fuel (we did eventually) you can pull in a port.
Entering northern Peruvian waters was like going thru the Cape Cod Canal-oil rigs, lights and boats everywhere meant constant vigilance.  So it took us a month to reach our destination, Lima, but we stopped at some beautiful places.

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