St. Augustine

My accounts now are of course second hand, I am back home while Juan is still going further South. Yesterday one of the crew members in Blue Phoenix, Juan José, defected and joined forces with Far Away to take it to St. Augustine. They sailed 70% of the time and apparently raced for a bottle of wine. They say they won by two miles, at least. The day was beautiful but the wind was light so they did not arrive until eight pm and had a hard time getting into St. Augustine because the channel is not as well marked as in Fernandina and there is shoaling, but all went well and by 9 they were rafted up and ready. Today they stay put, waiting for Nelson to arrive.