We woke up at about 6:30. One of the two bigger power boats had left but there are still 11 boats at anchor here. The sunrise was beautiful! The water is calm and there is just a hint of a breeze. The plan today is to go ashore and hike for a bit, then come back to the boat for lunch and then out again snorkeling.
We had breakfast, did our devotions and then kayaked ashore. We went for a hike crossed the island and then up to the ridge to the south. We met a few people on our hike one couple was Clint and Reina Burnett on S/V Karma. They asked us to come over for happy hour at 5 pm, and we did later that evening.
We hiked back to the kayak and paddled back to the boat. Renee’ made banana break (Very good) and we played a game (Qwirkle, thanks Ken for suggesting it!) I won the first round and Renee’ won the second. The game is played with tiles, and you are supposed to play till you run out of tiles, but we played the first round until we ran out of room for the tiles on the table. When we tried to move the tiles further down the table we got confused on what the layout had been and decided it made more sense to call the game and start over. The second game ended when we looked at the clock and it was time to go. In any case the first game was not close and neither was the second one. Then we went over to the S/V Karma and chatted for a couple of hours.
S/V Karma Clint and Reina Burnett
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They have been sailing for a few years and are just back from the south end of South America, they have actually been to Antartica. I have not read their blog yet (no cell service here) but will be doing this when I can). They spent 5 years down their and are in the process of sailing their boat back to the Puerto Penasco to get their boat ready to sell. They plan to move from a sailing yacht to a land yacht and do some driving. We got quite a few idea’s from them!
We got back at about 7:15 pm. Started the generator and had dinner. We plan to put the dinghy away after we shutdown the generator. The issue is that the exhaust from the generator is at the stern of our boat, gets the side of the dinghy dirty and wet as we try to put it away while the generator is running.
On the way back to our boat (in the dark) the outboard died and it was the same as had happened before, I apparently did not get the fuel line plugged in well enough and the outboard ran out of the gas that was in the filter system inside the engine. When that ran out the engine died. I had to unplug the fuel line and get it plugged back in again and then pump the priming pump to get it full and then start the outboard as we drifted away from our boat with the wind up. I really need to take a close look at what I am doing wrong the next time we do this and make sure I have it hooked up correctly so we don’t go drifting away in the dark sometime.
We ran the generator until about 9:30, then brought the dinghy back on board and tidied the deck and got ready for bed. As I was shutting down stuff at the Nav station, I noted that the hand held radio (which I keep on but plugged into the 12volt outlet) was dead. I did not find any obvious reason for this, and elected to figure it out in the morning.
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