Category: 2022-01 (January)

Up at 7 and busy. Breakfast and the net, then cleaning and organizing. We moved some odds and ends (spinnaker, canopy, sides of the canopy and dehumidifier) to a friends boat. This will make it easier with friends aboard. More cleaning after lunch and the Bible reading. I went out and got a hair cut. We are clearly in the expensive part of “town” 520 pesos, or about $25.36!  That includes a beard trim. This is certainly in the more expensive range of prices I have paid for a haircut and beard trim. This afternoon we are headed to the yacht club for happy hour with friends who are members. When we got back we had dinner then watched a movie. Another great day.

No pictures today.

Up and about by 8 or so. Breakfast and the net then read the Bible for the day. Reneé will walk over and check us out of the marina. Today we will be moving over to Paradise Village.

So, the crew from the sail shop came down and replaced our furling line for the main sail. The one they had given us was too small in diameter, so it did not “catch” in the self tailing winch. Then we motored across to Paradise Village. We pumped out the holding tank on the way. After we tied up, Reneé walked up and checked us in and I worked on the chart plotter trying to get the AIS (Automatic Identification System to work. After about an hour of screwing around, Reneé got back and her card key had not worked so she had to get that exchanged, and I had about 1/2 of the problem with the AIS solved. Unfortunately it required reseting the chart plotters (both of them) to factory settings and then resetting the various settings to the same (or nearly) as they had been. End result the chart plotter at the Nav Station (inside the boat) displays the other boats as a solid triangle. The chart plotter at the Helm (at the wheel on deck) displays the other boats as a blinking triangle. I also had to rebuild all the displays as the “reset” took all that stuff away, as well as all the saved waypoints, tracks (where we have been) and routes (planned directions). Oh well.

Up at 7 and laid around until almost 8:30, got up and listened to the net and had breakfast and then Reneé went to the store. I was waiting for someone to do something for the sails and lines, and ran the water maker to fill the tank. I will still run it Thursday (or maybe Friday) as we have guests coming Friday.

Reneé had a hard time find a ride back from the store (she was on the wrong side of the road to get a cab, or the bus, and while Uber works well in the states, few drivers here are using the system. The new app is called InDriver, the difference is that the driver doesn’t get paid by the app, rather at the end of the ride you give them cash. Apparently, the drivers have been having a hard time getting the money from Uber, so they are opting out of the system.
While I was waiting for the water tank to get full, I defrosted the freezer, which seems to help in it getting cold. When Reneé finally got a ride, it was on a bus, so she asked me to meet her at the bus stop with the wagon to bring the heavy stuff back to the boat. 

No pictures today.

Up at 7 am, I have a few minutes to work on the blog before breakfast. Then of course we will listen to the net and do our bible reading. After which Reneé will get back on the computer. Last week, she made a mistake and all of her messages disappeared from her email and her note pad, on her iPhone and iPad. 3 calls to Apple and 2 calls to Google later and she finally found them all 126,034 in her trash. That means she has up to 30 days to recover these messages. There doesn’t seem to be an easy way to put them all back where they were (she and I both looked online for such a command), so she has been going through them and recovering some and deleting permanently some and she is down to about 65,000 messages. This can only be done on a computer that is connected to the internet and it takes time. We of course only connect to the internet by tethering to a hotspot (one of our phones). Sometimes that is not very fast, one of the ‘perks’ of being in Mexico. In any case, what she is doing takes priority over the blog.

So, Reneé was busy in the galley, and she said, something is wrong with the water. Well, we ran out of water about 4 pm, and so I started the water maker and we will run it for a few hours tonight and then again on Thursday so that we are full when we have guests, at least to start the trip.

Anything else????

No pictures today..

We got up and had breakfast then out the door and up the bus for church. Great message (as usual) then we walked to the Rhythm and Blues Cafe for 2nd breakfast/lunch . They have a good breakfast buffet, and a 3 piece band that plays blues. We went with the group of people from church.

Then we walked up to the main road and caught the bus. We went to the store and bank then back to the boat, a quiet afternoon then out for dinner. The first restaurant The Black Forrest Cafe (German food) requires a reservation on Sunday nights, so we walked over to Falconi’s Italian restaurant and had a fabulous dinner. We walked quite a bit today, over 10,000 steps again for me.  We finished the day with a game of rummy.