Category: 2025-01 (January)

Up at 6 am or so for me, about 8 for Reneé. She really slept in today! After breakfast and the net, I traced out the wires for the depth sounder. We are going to relocate it later this week when the boat is hauled out. This will require putting it in the bottom of the boat through a hole, so I will have to pull the wire out and install the transducer from the bottom of the boat and rerun the wire. At the same time we will remove the speed sensor and put in the new one (a larger diameter means a bigger hole). That took me until about noon.

On the net this morning, I asked if anyone had some Cat 5 net work cable, so I could practice making ends before I cut our starlink cable. The first person that responded later called me back and said, OOPs! I put it “away” and can’t find it. So, after lunch I went over to SV Amerilies and worked with Jef on making ends on a cable he had. I got what I needed and he got a longer cable with ends on it. Next up, I will cut our Starlink cable and put ends on it so that I can close the hole in the panel.

This was a lazy day, reading and watching video’s on Youtube. Reneé watched the inauguration stuff. After dinner we watched a movie, then bed.

Up at 6 for Reneé. A bit later for me.

She is dealing with a cold, so she will stay home this morning. I will go to church with out her.

We got the dinghy down, I (of course) forgot to turn off the anchor alarm on my phone. Once I got to the dinghy dock, I walked up to the bus and went to church. 1.5 hours from starting to get the dinghy down to being at church.

After church, Kathy and her son (11) Aiden gave me a ride back to La Cruz theand then we took them sailing. It was a nice quiet day on the water. We stopped sailing at the end of the day, and Aiden went swimming. He seemed to enjoy it, even though he complained about the water being cold. We took them in to the guest dock to drop them off, 300 pesos for them and 25 pesos apiece for Reneé and I. We went back to where we had been anchored before and settled in for another night.

Up early for Reneé to watch the sunrise and breakfast, then get the dinghy down and listen to the net on the handheld radio as we got our stuff ready for the swap meet. We just restocked the boat, lots of stuff we won’t need in the next couple of months. Finally, head into the dinghy dock.

After the swap meet, we went to lunch at the La Cruz inn, then went to the boat shop for zincs (boat parts) then a hardware store for another lock.

Back to the boat, Reneé took a nap and I took the dinghy over to visit Ralph de la O. We have been playing tag with him all over. I spent an hour or two visiting him then back to our boat, we put the dinghy away.

I did not sleep well this morning, I woke up about 5 am and could not get back to sleep. I was thinking about all the stuff that is coming up, moving the boat, selling it moving back to Tennessee etc.

Then after breakfast listen to the net. We will check out with the marina and the port captain then head over to La Cruz to get fuel and finally for the day end up in the anchorage at La Cruz.

We got diesel (43 gallons) and gas (13 gallons) at the fuel dock. About $359!! Yikes! $6.16 average cost per gallon. On the other hand, we now have 160 gallons of fuel in the main tank, plus two 5 gallon cans on the side of the boat. We have 3 gallons on the dinghy and two 5 gallon cans on the side. This gas for the dinghy will almost certainly be enough for the whole season. We will plan on getting fuel either in Santa Rosalia or Puerto Escondido on Baja. We will need about 1/2 tank to get up to Puerto Peñasco from Santa Rosalia and back. Getting fuel up there is a matter of taking fuel cans to the gas station and back to the boat, then pouring it in. While less expensive it is a pain.

We anchored about 1 pm, and finally had lunch. Then a nap for me, that helped a bunch. We found a line that was run incorrectly and had to be redone (one of the preventers went through the eye of a a dock line). After the nap we got about two hours of exercise, we got the dinghy down and the outboard on it and running. Then outboard off and dinghy and outboard back into storage. We are in one of the only places we have heard about theft issues. So, the dinghy is locked to the boat, the outboard is locked to the boat, the propane, diesel and gas cans are all locked to the boat, as is the kayak and the paddle boards. We have installed a temporary motion sensor light on the back deck as well. I really hate that we have to take these precautions.

Now it is time for happy hour and a float behind the boat.