(posted 06/07/24)
Up at 0630, (we slept in a bit), morning routines, then off to church. Tracy Cain came with us. His wife went home to play with the grandkids, but her father (with dementia) fell and broke a hip, so she is helping there as well.
After church we went to lunch in Bucerías at La Cocina (the red roof near the bus stop). Then went to Tracy’s boat it’s an IP38 from the 1980’s or 90’s. We exchanged ideas, and suggestions his showers appear to drain to a “bucket” in the bilge, we could tell it had a float switch, but didn’t have appear to have a pump. We also noted that he has two dorades.
These are vents that have a box on the deck, they have a “horn” that can be pointed into the wind, this air goes into the box, and there is a drain for any water, the internals of the box is two levels the lower level has a drain, the upper level has a hole that goes into the boat. This keeps most of the water out of the boat. We use styrofoam disks to plug this hole, and have a dehumidifier running to minimize moisture during hurricane season.
In any case, we offered him two discs from our spares, if we could find them easily. We came back to our boat and found them right away. He came and got them and we talked some more. He borrowed our wet dry vac to get the water out of the bucket. He bought a small portable air conditioner and ran it overnight, draining it to the bilge. The drain actually went into the bucket resulting in it being full.
He is moving the AC unit to the counter, so it can drain into the sink and overboard, he will set it to just dehumidify. There’s a lot of humidity already. We have the AC running inside our boat, draining to our bilge, and in the time we have been in Paradise Village the bilge pump has run about 50 times just from the condensation from the AC.
A couple of days ago, we got a message that Ralph de la O was going to be here, so we communicated and he and his friend Greg stopped by for cookies and Ice Cream.
