"the earth is not inherited from the fathers, but borrowed from the children" Unknown Wise Words
It was around 0920 when I left the cabin to check the beautiful day outside, then I saw a sailboat in my direction, it was a beautiful german boat Bavaria, 50 feet, called Cucao.
The owner was a very good friend of mine, Rafael Vial, he was sailing with his wife Polin, a son Manuel and two granddaughters. He made me some signals and approached to say hello, he told me that he was leaving the Estero, before the low tide get at it is lowest around 11:00 am. He had just arrived the night before, but I didn't know, it was a nice surprise to met him. I told him that I checked that is going to be at 10:37. I mentioned him that the tide looks already too low, but I didn't insisted since he is a very old sea wolf. Then we said goodbye and I saw him aiming to the entrance of the Estero, then he was completely stopped, I saw the Cucao make a turn at full engine power at his own point in 180º, the poor Cucao touch the bottom of the sea. My friend tried to make a second intend through another place, but then he realised that it was much smarter to wait for the change of the tides from the low to the high. When I was watching all this manoeuvre I called him to tell them, that the tide was too low, I left the phone over the cover of the cockpit and then I listen a splash in the water, I looked for my phone, and that it is, the phone was at the bottom of the sea.
At 10:00 am we got into the Pehel and went to the shore, to catch some oysters and clams, my friend Rafael, went to fish something with his son. At 11:50 they called us to invite us to the Cucao to eat and drink something at 13:00 pm. We accepted and decided to bring with us our oysters that we were catching. The oysters you can pick it up in the South shore of Estero Hueihue, just few meters after you entrance to the Estero. According to the locals, you should only get the oysters which are bigger that the circle made it with your thumb and index finger, any size smaller than this, it should be return to the sea.
The Cucao is a boat that with his captain, my very good friend Rafael Vial, has sailed many Oceans, and crossed many seas, Rafael bought it new, and picked up in the coast of Spain, sailed from there to Panamá, where the boat was for some years, until in year 2016, he sailed from Panamá to Puerto Montt, living so many adventures, that he is the one that should tell or write. It is a Bavaria, 50 feet, very comfortable, one big room with its own big bathroom, and 2 others rooms with bathroom too. As I wrote Rafael is a very good friend and the best tips that I have from Chiloe, came from him.
Well, at 12 something we were in the Cucao, ready to eat some choritos (mussels), that he bought hours before to a fisherman in the Estero Hueihue. He told me that an old lady in Chiloe gave him the secret to cooked, put all the mussels in a big saucepan with white wine and put cook under slow fire, and add some onions. Actually, they were delicious, very soft, and you have to eat to the french style, you take the mussels with the own shell like you were using a clamp.
Rafael, Francisca, Polin, his granddaughters and me in the Cucao.
My friend offered me some pisco sour, at first I said no thanks, since I was nervous for all the manoeuvres and sailing that I must done, against the time, I was very tight to get my new destination with natural light and I didn't want to sail at night. But then I realised that I was a kind of scare, afraid of, then I said "please give some pisco sour, I am going to find in it, the courage that I am not finding natural into me". The 2 pisco sours and the glass of white wine that I drank with the mussels, help me to relax.
It was a wonderful meeting, with good friends. We said goodbye and wish each other a good navigation, they went to Quemchi to the South, and I decided to go back to the North, since the forecast was very strong winds the day after tomorrow (around 40 knots and a lot of rain).
At 2:47 I lift the anchor, and we left Estero Hueihue, leaving wonderful people and moments. We left the Estero just few meters back of Cucao, and once that we were in deepest water, we got parallels and say our last good bye.
It was a beautiful day to sail off, very calm sea, sunny, at the South you could sea very dark clouds, announcing the bad weather coming, and as we were approaching to Puluqui Estero, we started to see very foggy at the South.
We reached Puluqui at 20:47, my ETA was 21:00, we were able to mooring buoy, with light. This time it were not boat at the Estero Puluqui, we were alone, there were only fisherman who work there.
At night we ate the wonderful king crab that we bought in Bahía Linao with Rodrigo Bulnes. It was delicious. Then went to sleep to our last day of sail aiming to Marina Huelmo.
Data:
Board 12,6 v
Motor 13 v
Water ¼
Diesel ½ - ¾
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