Up later than normal, about 8 am. We listened to the Net, had breakfast and read the Bible. Then took down the Jib, this is the second biggest sail on the boat normally. Mainsail, Jib, then Staysail, if we put up the Spinnaker that is biggest. Then Reneé took a trip to the store for buns for dinner tonight.
I ran the water maker as it has been about 11 days since the last time we filled the tank. We don’t want to have to run it while there is other work going on. So, when it was full, I checked out what we have used this year.
2,545 gallons of water, for drinking washing dishes and showers. All of that water has been dock water run through our water maker reverse osmosis system with the highest PPM reading of about 8 ppm. This compares to tap water in the states like this:
The upper limit of what is acceptable is about 500 ppm, most households are in the 350 ppm range or less. Anything less than 17.1 ppm is considered SOFT water. Bottled water is somewhat better most of the time: https://watertestingkits.com/ultimate-bottled-water-test/ but still is typically higher than what we are dealing with. In general, the dock water is supposed to be “potable” drinking water, before I run it through the water maker, but we like really clean water. If we make drinking water out of the ocean, we will probably be closer to 180 ppm or so.
Note mineral water by its very nature will have a higher ppm.
So, back to the statistics 2,545 gallons, we have been on the boat 162 days for Reneé and 152 for me this year (I went back and helped our son Nate move). Based on the 162 days, we have used 15.7 gallons of water. If you deduct half of when I was gone to average the use, it is a bit more 16.2 gallons per day. Or just a bit more than 8 gallons per day per person. (We did have guests for 8 days so maybe a bit less).
We went up to a Palapa (BBQ area near the pool), we were unable to get them to light the when we wanted it lit (5 pm) we could have had it lit at about 3:30, but they were too busy to come at 5 pm. Someone else had the area reserved for 6 pm, so we headed back to our boat with the Peppers (we had played Mexican Train and I lost again!). So, as we were walking back, I got a text from the welder Chava who said he was on the boat now. Remember we are in Mexico, I don’t speak Spanish and his English is not that good. He had said that he was starting work tomorrow AM. Turns out he was picking up the solar panels for work in the shop, the frame for the support. I really don’t want to be trapped on the boat again. It seems like I wind up waiting all day on the boat, and no body shows up for days, then they do at 5 pm.
Communications! I am done with my rant.
We had Italian sausage and watermelon salad with chocolate cake for desert. They are flying back to the states on Thursday, so this is probably the last time we will see them this season.
We got the jib down this morning, and need to fold it properly, it takes a bit of room, the sail is 57 feet tall, and 17 feet across the bottom of the triangle, and it is rather stiff material so hard to told/roll. We got the staysail down this evening. It fit in its sail bag without having to refold it. The Jib is going to take more work. On our list of things to do is to remove all the line on deck to minimize the damage from the UV radiation. To do this we run string in its place so we can get the lines back where they belong next season. Only problem is where did we stash the string from last year?
