August 28. Yeah, we're finally in Venezuel

Yeah, we're finally out of the hurricane belt and it feels good. We had the best sail ever, we left Prickly Bay yesterday morning at 9:30 and as soon as were out of the channel we pulled the sails up and turned the engine off. From the get go we had a half to one knot current with us that lasted almost all trip long. Our speed was anywhere from 5.5 to 7.5 and we even saw an 8 on the meter. As we left the lee of the island it was spinnaker perfect and we sailed with full spinnaker all day long and didn't take it down until sunset. The wind calmed down a bit during the night and when the jib started flopping around, Sid attached the whisker pool to it and we averaged 5 to 6 knots all night long. Getting in to the Los Testigos Islands we sailed through a weird current which tossed us around for a couple of hours. Then it was smooth sailing again. In the morning the wind finally died down but we didn't give up yet, pulled the spinnaker up again and waited about 20 minutes and wouldn't you know in no time we were up to 5 plus knots again and sailed all the way into the anchorage in Isla Margarita. You should have seen the starry night, the milky way lit up the sky, we saw lots of shooting stars and the water was sparkling with phosphorescence as well. This was by far the most stars we've ever seen and the best sail ever. Just a perfect passage in and on Paradise and Sid said: "that's why I bought a sail boat for!"
Welsh Rover and Maja left Grenada 3 hours after we did and said they didn't get the wind conditions we had, so they motor sailed all the way. Neos and Lyoness, both catamarans left last night at 6 and they arrived a couple hours after us. So as tired as we are, in a few minutes at 5 we all are going ashore for Happy Hour, cheers!