UPDATE We're in Turtle Bay!

Well we made it to Turtle Bay on Wednesday - we were anchored by around 7:30 pm, which was a few hours earlier than we thought we'd be here!! The trip down had a few memorable moments and quotes - which you'll see below... Monday the wind came up just as we started, we actually launched the spinnaker around 2:30 pm, just south of the Coronado Islands. Later the wind died and we turned on the motor. We motored until around midnight when the wind started to pick back up. Boy did the wind pick up. Carson's watch was from 3-6 am, and he saw consistent winds of 20-25 with building seas. When I got up around 7:30, the winds were still in the 20-25 range and the seas were around 6-8 feet - and built like cliffs! They boys were hand steering the boat as we surfed down each wave... This continued until sometime the next night, when the winds dropped a bit and the seas started to calm down. It was 24 hours of steep, white water sailing... Yesterday (Wednesday) was a great day!!! We motored for a while until we came upon Cedros Island when we were able to head in a direction that gave us a better sailing angle. You can't argue with sailing in bright clear blue skies and doing over 7 knots!!! Rich brought us into Bahia de Tortuga (Turtle Bay) under clear skies, with lots and lots of stars - it was really beautiful!! We proceeded into the bay and are anchored with 170 other boats in about 25 feet of water... We popped the champagne and toasted our first landfall... Later after dinner, we reminisced about the day before and came up with the following quotable quotes for Leg 1 of the Baha Ha-Ha....
Carson - Debbie, take the wheel, I've got to hurl.
Marissa - Tom, I think I'm going to die.
Kyle - Are we there yet?
Kyle - I'm still hungry.
Ryan - Are we there yet?
Rich - Carson, you're giving me the ride of my life!
Rich - The TV just fell on me.
Tom/Marissa - The toys are all flying at us.
Deb - Welcome to the Pacific Ocean.
Tom - Now that's it's dark, I know where I'm at.
Today we got up around 7:30 for the daily roll-call. We have a few chores to do today, like re-building the forward head which got plugged up... and getting some fuel. The boys had a great time decorating the sugar sculls Carolyn gave the boys for Dias de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) festival which is today..
Carolyn - Can you please go to West Marine and get the following part and bring it down to us??
Raritan
PHII and PHEII
Overhaul Kit
Part # PHRKII
Thanks!!
Well that's it for now....
Rich, Deb, Kyle, Ryan, Carson, Tom, & Marissa