Back in the Rio

Back on our boat at last. Everyone spent the first day giving the boat a good scrub and cleaning everything before putting all our stocks away! Sym went through all the electronics and engine room checking everything was working and was just the way we left it!! The only thing was that was disappointing was the boat smelt so musty and mouldy after being stood so long in rainy season.But after the day of cleaning and airing her for a day or so the smell went and everything was back to normal.
Sym vowed that he was never going to leave our boat on her own for so long again!

We spent a week in the Rio getting the boat ready to go out to sea and waiting for a good weather forecast to sail to the Bay Islands! We had originally planned to hop along the main land of Honduras before getting to the Bay Islands. Plans changed when we heard a week before just after Christmas a Canadian boat had been anchored on their own. The boat was then approached by a group of locals asking to borrow some tools. The Captain was then shot four times in the chest and died. The daughter fired a flare gun to scare them off but then she had to wait 18 hours to be rescued by a freighter nearby. This was the second piracy attack in a matter of weeks and so all vessels were told not to go to the main land.






We left the Rio Dulce and spent a a afternoon and night out at sea sailing to the island of Utila!