Category: 2022-06 (June)

Up at 7ish. Breakfast, and off the boat by 8:30 to catch the bus to the Bible study. After the study we went to lunch with Val and Larry at Jorge’s. Then to the pool party.

We headed back to the boat by 4 pm. Two bus rides (crowded) and we were back. Reneé made cookies for tomorrow’s pot luck and I checked on status for the dinghy (in route) the life raft (due back to Mike this weekend)j our mainsail (due back with the Life Raft on Monday)

This was our last bible study and pool party here for the season. It will be missed.

 

Up at 7, Reneé is making cinnamon rolls for the Bible study tomorrow. Then breakfast, the net, Bible reading and put up the canopy on the back of the boat.

Reneé polished the stainless steel before we put up the canopy. That is hot work. Somewhere in there we made arrangements to have the boat hauled in October and get the bottom painted.  An expense that has to be done every 3 or 4 years.

We also got another invite to go to the movies with a stop at Home Depot to get a hose we need for the water maker. The one we ordered from Amazon Mexico wasn’t delivered correctly (we ordered a 1/2” ID/ 5/8” OD and what we got is 1/2” OD. Way too small, not enough time to straighten out, so we will just go buy one at Home Depot. (I hope they have it).

So, we had a misunderstanding about the movie, the one we were headed to was in Spanish without subtitles. So, we rescheduled at another theater across town. This gave us a couple of hours. So, we made a Sam’s club and Walmart run, then we went to Las Muertos brewery. We shared a Pizza and had some great beer. Then back to the movie. We stopped at Home Depot and got everything on our list. Finally back to the boat showers and bed.

Up at about 7:30, breakfast, the net and Bible reading.

We moved the paddle boards from outside the rails (lifelines) on the port side to inside the rails on the starboard side and tied them down. This is to remove them from temptation and easy theft. The port side is where the dock is, and the paddle boards were accessible from the dock.

Then we hung the lines for the dinghy hoist near the Dalits. John was back, and finished up his work on our boat for the season. He is flying out Wednesday. He didn’t rewire the speakers in the salon, nor the ones in the cockpit, and a wire connector to the SiriusXM adapter got broken (which for this big of a project is actually amazing). This was the only thing that broke. He will do the speakers and the SiriusXM adapter in the fall. We got his bill, which when added to the others shows this total job was about $8,500.

I have figured out how to control almost everything connected to our charge systems from the internet. This means I can check it anytime and anywhere that I have internet, if there’s an issue I can fix it on line. This is what I wanted!

While investigating all the controls and reading about it on the internet, I found that it is relatively easy to add tank level monitoring to the system, and that we would be able to monitor our tanks from our phones or the display or the internet. I have more investigation to do, but it appears to be about the same cost as replacing our current tank level monitoring system that is not working, and we had planned on replacing anyway.

Oh and we found out that our new dinghy made it to Tijuana as well, and should be here on 6/27. (We fly out on 6/28).

We went to the pool at 4, and happy hour, then back to the boat for dinner showers and bed.

Up at 7 ish, breakfast and off the boat to catch the bus and head to church. After church we went to lunch at Karen’s restaurant in Bucerias. Then we did some shopping and took the bus back to the boat. John had finished for the day, and said he was done in the aft lazarette. So, we put things away. While we were working on that, Mike from S/V Brightnest walked by and we invited them over for a game or movie. They had dinner first and we got showers and then Mike and Jenifer came over about 8 pm and we played a couple of rounds of Mexican Train.

Up at 7:15, did not hear the alarm this morning, nor the coffee pot saying it was done making coffee, but we got up and around. Breakfast and the net, then bible reading. Reneé took the laundry up to wash clothes. John is due back down here later to continue working on the wiring.
John walked for an hour or so, then he was gone. He will be back tomorrow.
In the evening, we went out to dinner with Curt and Jill from S/V Namahana, they drove and we went to a Vietnamese restaurant down in Puerto Vallarta.