sailing through venezuela and the northeastern part of colombia is said to be one of the most complicated legs in the world! it is in fact very windy, specially this time of year, and there is a 1.5 knot of current against the wind, creating rough seas. the wind blows constantly at 30 knots and the gusts are easily up to 40 every single day. we had not thought much about this before, but when approaching we were a bit nervous. we tried to plan around the weather and left bonaire with a good window of two days ahead, however the next leg was for three days, and we knew we were going to have rough seas and strong winds the last day. we had planned on several stops, including los monjes, which is a military base in venezuela north of the gulf of maracaibo, but when we were close to that area the wind and seas seemed ok, so we moved on through the cabo de la vela in guajira, colombia.
at the end the wind was not so terrible in this part, but what did complicate things a bit was the heavy traffic of ships carrying oil from venezuela and coal from colombia. we were constantly watching them approach us and pass very close. they kept us awake all the time.
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