28 January 2009 - Stuck in Rio Grande

So today we are NOT sailing to Rio Grande, the weather has changed for the worst and it is howling a 35 knot gale down the channel, along with intermittent rain and it looks to be set that way till Friday at the earliest. Our only chance might be to change our plans and head for La Paloma in Uruguay instead, which would just be a 36 hour sail, not a 3 day sail. We may be able to do that tomorrow. The other challenge is that we seem to have a leak in our water tanks that we cannot work out... hhhmmnn, sprung out of nowhere after filling them yesterday. Very strange. Not life threatening, as we have plenty of water on deck, but may mean dismanteling the saloon in Buenos Aires to sort it out. Good thing we were planning on staying in Argentina for a while! As it looks like that will happen whether we like it or not. What it does mean is that we may get a chance to see some more of these amazing birds on this lagoon. Or maybe we will have to hide in our boat as it also looks like it going to rain cats and dogs! We will just have to drink a cup of patience as the Brazileans say! We have definitely ruled our Tierra del Fuego by sea, that is for certain.