Asuncion

We had a pretty good passage yesterday. We left with Loon III and Icarian and had very light wind for the first few hours. We were "unofficially" racing, so we were all tweaking sails and trying to eke out the best speed. Loon put up their spinnaker for awhile (despite my protests... we don't have one! Turns out they didn't go any faster than with the genoa up) The wind slowly built up to about 20kn (fortunately Loon took their spinnaker back down before then) and we all made great time. The wind died when we were about 8 miles out, and we all eventually motored in in the dark. Even though we arrived first, I pronounce Icarian the "winner" because they were well in the lead and turned on their motor last. Loon got in last, but deserves second place because they caught at least three fish along the way and got bonus points for setting their spinnaker. There's a big low coming down the coast causing overcast and even a bit of rain ahead of it... we seem to bring rain everywhere we go! We've all be following the weather forecasts closely, and have to decide whether we should stay put in this well protected anchorage and possibly have not enough wind after the front passes, or catch the ride and make some miles. I'm sure we'll all yak on the VHF radio this morning after the next weather update to compare notes and opinions. We caught up with two other boats here, and they report the town is quite nice. The water temp jumped up another 2F!