Neil Scheuerlein

May 3rd, 2025 Saturday (Lalo Cove San Carlos)

Published 05/06/2025
Up at 7 am, bible reading, breakfast and planning the day.
We got the dinghy down and the outboard ready to go ashore. This takes about 20 minutes. After lunch we will go ashore and take a walk.
We took the dinghy ashore, and walked all over the marina (it is about 1/4 mile across to the marina and then about a mile to the other side. We looked but did not find the right office, we found the harbor master but he sent us next door, (but that was the office for the fuel) they sent us the far side of the marina but we did not find an office there. We stopped at a local (very small) restaurant they sold a variety of fish cocktails, mostly served in a coconut, Reneé got one and we took it back to the boat, we floated for a bit then rested the rest of the day and had bbq’d brats for dinner.

May 2nd, 2025 Friday (Lalo Cove San Carlos)

Published 05/06/2025
Up at 6:30, bible reading, breakfast and snorkeling. The is the order of the day.
We got the dinghy down and went to some rocks to snorkel. Unfortunately, my snorkel is missing a part, so oh well. Reneé got some in. We have a ladder for getting back into the dinghy from the water, first time we have used it. Dave from Iowa used it when I took him out in Yelapa, but it was our first time. It worked well.
We got showers, which meant running the generator to heat the water. The battery was fully charged before we started the generator so, it was only for hot water.

May 1st, 2025 Thursday (Lalo Cove San Carlos)

Published 05/06/2025
Up at 6:30, breakfast, bible reading, and thinking about what we have to do in the marina and the yard.
Reneé polished some stainless, then thought she saw a whale shark and wanted to snorkel over to see it closer. Whale sharks are really big sharks, and unlike most other sharks they eat plankton and small fish.

The whale shark is a slow-moving, filter-feeding carpet shark and the largest known extant fish species. The largest confirmed individual had a length of 18.8 m. The whale shark holds many records for size in the animal kingdom, most notably being by far the most massive living non-cetacean animal. Wikipedia

https://cadivingnews.com/the-whale-shark/

in any case we got the dinghy down and rowed over to where she thought it was. No whale shark. Oh well.

Later after lunch we floated for a bit behind the. We have two inflatable floats. We left the better ones in Peñasco.
We ended the day with bbq and then a movie.
The battery was about 95% charged by the end of the day.

No pictures today

April 30th, 2025 Wednesday (Santa Rosalia to Lalo Cove, San Carlos)

Published 05/06/2025
Up at 3:30, underway by 4 am. Breakfast and bible reading underway. Virtually no wind all the way across, highest was about 7 knots. Very quiet trip. We only saw a couple of fishing boats and one sailboat in the first 65 miles. We will see what we see as we finish the 75 miles. Well we didn’t see another boat until we were about 5 miles from the end of our journey.
We wanted to anchor in Martini Cove, but it’s very small and there was a couple of boats there already. Oh well, we headed back a few miles to where we ended up (see the pictures). While I was working on getting the anchor ready, my hat got caught in the wind and flipped into the water. We were able to get one more man overboard drill in! We were successful and the hat is drying out now.
We anchored in Lalo Cove a couple of miles from the marina.
It was a very quiet day.

The light in the dinghy is from our stern light

This was the land markt the end of the day

April 29th, 2025 Tuesday (Santa Rosalia)

Published 05/06/2025
Up at 6:30 or so. Breakfast, bible reading a trip to the store and preparing to get underway tomorrow.
Renee’ told the office we were done with shore power and I got us unplugged, that way we can pay our bill today. Shore power off, bilge rinsed, hose and cords put away. Garbage off the boat. Pulled pork on the stove for dinner and future meals. We got showers before turning off the power, so we would have hot water to wash the dishes. We have to have AC power (either shore power or run the generator) or run the engine to heat the hot water tank. Our friends that have been here for the last week mostly have left for points north or south, but another boat friend arrived this afternoon, SV Soulmate with Lisa and Patrick. We will have a beer with them at the micro brewery and afterwards come back to the boat and turn in early. Tomorrow we get underway by 4 am, as it is abut 75 miles across. Roughly 12 hours, and we like to have a little extra time in case of issues.
We will not have much wind, so it will be a motor trip, and no moon light as it comes up after the sun and we get there before sunset. The marina is very well lit up at night, so getting out should not be a problem.