I had spent most of the night trying to collect the vital weather and immigrations information that I had stored on my mobile all over again. I knew I would be missing other stuff too but didn’t want to think about it now. I was ready to go. Andi and Kudi and I were going to leave together. Of course their boat is faster so at some point I would stay behind. The tide turned at ten in the morning and I had been into town early one last time to see if my phone would show up or if I could buy a cheap replacement. No such luck.
We went downriver with the tide but it turned before we were out of the estuary. After about six hours the the sails came up and Kudi filmed and took a few pictures of Amy.
After that we sailed into the night with the Guiana current and good wind. We had 550 nautical miles to go and were making good progress.
