Taking the seanic route
Church and then Lunch with Joe Baron the guy from dinner Thursday and a quiet day.
I changed the zincs on the shaft and the shoe (the metal part between keel and the rudder. I needed help with the bow thruster.
We have been looking at options for the trip to Mazatlan, it would be 9 days or so to get there based on going down Baja, about 6 days going down the coast of mainland Mexico.
This discussion went back and forth, the big downside is extra time away from home and Reneé.
Breakfast at the hotel and I walked to the boat. Alejandro and a coworker showed up to work on the projects. We also have a fan in the salon that doesn’t work. I thought it was a bad fan, so I brought one with me. NOPE! Wiring issue, so I have a small 12 volt DC two speed fan that I don’t need. ($83). I even had it verified by an “electrician” that it was the fan that was bad. Oh well. I will probably put the new one in and stow the old one in the spare parts. Just because it would be a pain to take it back to the states, the new one has a longer wire that will make it easier to install.
Tonight there is a bible study to attend.
So, there’s a change of plans. Instead of taking the boat to Puerto Vallarta, we will take it to Mazatlan. Slip rental in La Cruz (the only one that has an opening) is $1,810/month. Mazatlan is $972/month.
After the bible study, we went out to dinner. Joe & Vanessa and I.
I found a better hotel, Sawari. It is 1600 pesos per night ($94) it is closer to Marina Seca, and has a restaurant that does breakfast. There was another option for a hotel that only cost $39 per night, but Joe and Vanessa both said DO NOT STAY THERE. So, here I am. Good, closer to the boat, quiet, good restaurant for breakfast. Bad, the walls are thin and the next door person had the TV on until midnight, then again from 3 am. I had taken some NyQuil Z, so while I slept it was not great. I went out for dinner with Joe and Vanessa. I discussed work on the boat with Carlos (rigger), Alejandro (paint and fiberglass work) and Allan (Project Manager). It looks like Tuesday (1/13) for splashing the boat. That will give us about 3 days to get sails up and supplies on board. I found out that Steve Pepper sold his boat Brandon to another Steve here in San Carlos and that he is coming down to help Steve sail to Puerto Vallarta on about 1/19.
I went to Tortugas for the Thursday night cruisers gathering. It was a pretty big crowd. This was the first time I saw Allan face to face this time around. This is fine with me, as the work he is doing for me doesn’t require meeting. Just making sure the right people are working on my boat. I met a new cruiser Joe Baron, his wife is home with the kids, and he is here getting the boat ready to sail. He sailed before Mexico to Hawaii to the PNW, then took 20+ years off. Now he has a new to him boat.
No pictures today
I stayed in the first hotel Marinaterra, 2000 pesos (about $111) per night. Good, very quiet, great view in the morning I was above the road, but on the 6th floor, so over the bay. Bad, a bit expensive. I checked out the other options. The next day, the one across the street was 3422 pesos per night. Not as good a view, but way more money (about $190). I went to a men’s bible study with Joe in the morning and finally got to the boat about 11 am. I discovered a porthole had been left open for the season resulting in damage to the finish of the cabinet with the washing machine in it.
I checked on getting the mast installed, it looks like Monday (1/12), the boat has to move to the dirt yard so the mobile crane can get in. I checked on a slip for after the work is done. I have one reserved for 1/10 (Saturday) through 1/17 (next Saturday) there is a little bit of work on the keel and painting the bilge, and installing a new through hull for the speed probe, as well as repairing the cabinet. It is a boat. Alway fixing something.
