March 04, 2024 Monday Santa Rosalia

(posted 03/11/24)
Filled water tank, and fuel tank.
Got WiFi calling turned on for my phone
Had Pat & Jim from MV Despedida over for beer after moving fuel

The day started off slow, and then about noon (maybe) Reneé said, well the dude who was going to help with the fuel did not show up yesterday and hasn’t shown up yet, and Jim on MV Despedida said he needs fuel as well, perhaps we could help each other out. So, the thing is we need about 40 gallons of diesel, the gas station is just across the street so relatively close, but it means dragging two (we only have two) 5 gallon jerry cans back and forth from the boat to the gas station 4 times for us and, as it turns out the same for Jim.
Out comes the cart, and back and forth we went, what was in the Jerry cans went into our tank, then the empty ones went to the gas station and when full we took them to the other boat, and then back to our boat etc.
About the second or third trip, the guy in charge of the marina came by to let us all know that the water problem was rectified, I asked if the water was on, he said no, tomorrow at 9 AM. He also wanted to know when we were leaving in the morning. We had said 9 am, so this was pretty disappointing. I asked if we get the water on now please, and he went and turned it on. So, on Jim’s turn for the fuel, I stayed behind and got our water maker running and had Reneé watching it while I helped Jim with fuel. 
Somewhere in here, I was up at the marina and playing with my phone settings and FINALLY figured out what I was doing wrong with getting my phone to work on WiFi calling!!!
As it was getting late, we called it a night for adding fuel after getting about 40 gallons each and had Pat & Jim from MV Despedida over for a beer (we took our growler up to the tap room in the marina and filled it). They are new to the cruising life, they have lived in Mexico for about 5 years in San. Carlos and just got their motor boat within the last year. Finally, we got showers and bed.

When running the water maker, the important things to remember, don’t exceed 33 gph or 800 psi. When using dock water the 33 gph is limiting, when using seawater the 800 psi becomes an issue. The little black box shows the water quality, when we are using dockwater typically we get to less than 10 ppm, seawater less than 200 ppm. The US says acceptable drinking water is less than 500 ppm.
The handle on the valve on the left side is pointing down to the tank, when we start up we reject until the water quality is good.
On the vertical gauge you can see that the float is at about 33 gph. Gallons Per Hour).
The plastic box at the top is the breaker box, the upper breaker for the high pressure pump, the lower breaker for the feed pump.
This gauge shows the water pressure on the suction side of the HP pump.
Filters, not shown in this picture, I have a carbon block 5 micron filter that I use for dock water. This makes sure no Chlorine (a few marina’s here use it) gets to our membranes. This goes into the system between the through hull and the screen on the suction of the feed pump. There is a plankton screen filter, then a 25 micron filter (important for using sea water), then a 5 micron filter before the High pressure pump, then the first membrane and then the second (our pump is not big enough to handle the two membranes in parallel so we are limited ot 33 gph, instead of 40 gph.
The blue filter on the right is for flushing the filter (it is a carbon block as well).

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