Category: 2021 – 2022 Season 3

So, we were up and around at 7 or maybe a bit after.

Reneé washed windows and portholes and lubed zippers. It is amazing how bad the zippers on everything get down here on the water.

This was a day for phone calls, we had gotten a letter in the mail (forwarded to us by way of Kyle) that said we needed to deal with our LLC and that we needed to send a check for $110 to this company by May 13. Well, I did some investigation and called the state office where the LLC is registered, and found out that this is a scam. It costs $10 to update the registration and they send an email to us to tell us when it is due (August 1), and that we can do this up to 2 months in advance. All in all a very nice conversation.

I called and talked to my mom for an hour and change. I do this a couple of times a month (maybe more). If you are reading this and haven’t given someone a call lately perhaps now is the time to do it.

I tried calling my uncle, but he was out.

We went to the pool about 4 pm and then back to the boat for dinner. Then showers and game night, this time we played Rummy 500. A game Nate taught us.

No pictures today

Up at 7 am. Reneé off the boat by about 8:15 headed to Walmart to drop off part of our canopy to get fixed. (This is with Ivete who made it). After doing that she will head over to the church for a bible study. I am meeting up with the guy to do the electrical work on the boat for the new solar. John Pounder. Afterwards the plan is to meet Reneé in Bucerias, get my hair cut and then go order the stuff for the solar. 

We ordered the solar panels and the controllers. They should all be on the boat early next week. Afterwards, we went back to the boat and relaxed for a bit then off to the pool and happy hour. 

This was movie night so after dinner and showers we watched Seven Brides for Seven Brothers from 1954. This movie is most certainly NOT PC today. Still the music was good. Then bed. 

Up at 7, breakfast and getting organized. Listened to the Net. Today, we have to finish checking in with the Port Captain, meet with Cano about bottom cleaning and stuff, maybe moving slips. We were waiting on a different slip down the dock. The one we are in is sort of pie shaped so we are pretty close at the stern to our neighbor. The other slip is more rectangular.

Well, that did not work! Current and wind got in the way, also a bigger boat was parked in the next slip, making the new “better slip” not that much better. End result at the worst possible time the bow thruster said “I AM TIRED” and stopped working. This is not surprising, the bow thruster is a 7 hp 12 volt motor. For those of you interested in the technical stuff, there are 746 watts per hp. So, 7×746 = 5,222 watts. The formula for power is I (current) x E (voltage) = P (power in watts). So, this motor is drawing about 435 amps from the batteries. EVERYTHING about this is HOT, the wires, the motor etc. So, we went out and puttered around the bay for a couple of hours to let it all cool down. We also talked to the office and got a different slip. While we were out, we saw a couple of dolphin and some birds. When we pulled back in to the new slip there was plenty of room.

Reneé went and got the laundry, I worked on contacting people about solar, generators, and dinghy’s finding a new dinghy that is in the states, that is only marginally more expensive than the one we did not get in February. That is no longer available.  A part for the generator is supposed to be shipped tomorrow from Florida, and then forwarded by the importer. I had my meeting with Cano about what to do this summer, and I arranged to meet with the electronics guy about the solar stuff tomorrow morning.

After all the screwing around, we headed to the pool. We stopped by Denny and Steve’s boat and chatted for a bit, then headed out again and ran into Turi and Jeli on another boat and chatted with them for a bit, so all told it took us an hour and half to get from our boat to the pool, about a 10 minute walk.

After happy hour at the pool, back to the boat for dinner and our bible reading, we are trying to move it to the end of the day rather than rush through it in the morning. Then a real treat ICE CREAM! After the way today went we deserved it! Then showers and bed.

We got up and after breakfast we checked in to the marina, we were unable to get to the port captain, and will do that tomorrow. Then we headed out to do our shopping.

First stop Zaragoza Marine store. Dinghy, NO sold out and next shipment expected in May 2023. Fishing pole holder, NO, strata glass cleaner for the windows NO. Parts for rebuilding a winch. NO. Complete strike out here.

Second stop the solar panel place looking for new solar panels at least 450 watts each (two of them), at a reasonable price. YES 550 watts at about $350 each, which compared to buying in the states and importing is a bit less. The controllers were a bit more, but we were told we could get them all in about a week. Success!

We had lunch in town and walked a bunch, finally back to the boat and rest for an hour or so. Then off to the pool for happy hour and to meet up with the crew of Yo-di-yo Dave and Mary. We spent an hour in the pool then a couple of hours chatting, then back to the boat and dinner and bed. I walked 13,478 steps today.

No pictures today.