Category: 2025 Season 6

Published 04/23/2025
Up at 6:30, not a very good nights sleep. We are thinking this may not be the day to leave. We will check the weather again and see when it is good. The tides are moving later in the day.
Tides:
High 1:52 pm today +16.5’
Low 7:56 pm +.5 ft
High 1:51 am Sunday +15.4’
Low 8:00 am -1.1’
High 2:17 pm +16.5’
Low 8:21 pm +1.2’
High 2::12 am Monday +14.75’
Low 8:21 am -.9’
High 2:43 pm. +16’

It took us 19 hours to get from Refugio to the buoy and another hour or so to get to the dock.

(The following was a table, but it does not go into the blog that way).
Approximate time Wind at Peñasco Wind middle of the sea Wind at Refugio
1200 today                              8                                              7                               8
1800                                          6                                            12                                6
2400                                        12                                            15                                11
0600 Sunday                        7                                              12                                5
1200                                         9                                               8                                 5
1800                                         7                                               11                                 3
2400                                         8                                               18                                7
0600 Monday                     10                                               13                                5
1200                                        10                                               11                                 5
1800 9 12 7

Options:

Departure 1400 today

Departure 1400 Sunday

Departure 1400 Monday

We have decided to stay until Monday and leave about 2 pm.

Published 04/20/2025
Up at about 7. Breakfast, bible reading getting organized, then off the boat. Drop off laundry, then off to the restaurant supply store for some meat and other odds and ends. Sams club and the Bodega Tienda (Walmart) to finish the shopping. Next stop lunch, the first place had an awful smell so we went to the second place and got way too much food. After picking up the laundry we went back to the boat. Reneé put all the food away, I sorted laundry then updated the blog.
When she was done then it was my turn, first the light in the aft head above the mirror got replaced, then the lower stern navigation light, it has been working occasionally, we have two so I wasn’t too worried about it, but now it works all the time.
Finally the big job, replace the propane solenoid. It is actually a pretty easy job, just that where it is makes it a pain. The propane locker is accessed from on deck in the aft port corner. So, it is a matter of removing the tanks, and then taking out the regulator and solenoid. A screwdriver and a couple of wrenches. Then reverse the process and stick the two wires through the plug to get them into the aft Lazerette. This where the fun begins, there are two wires coming from the switch and two wires from the solenoid, but it is behind the propane locker which means climbing into the aft lap and reaching around behind the fiberglass locker to get to the wires and make the connections. But it was all done by about 5 pm.
Ok, so we are not done yet. We washed the boat and flushed a couple of slow drains, the starboard scupper (deck drain), the sink in the aft head (always slow) and the right kitchen sink, we usually wash dishes in the left one which means anything that accumulates in the drain for the right sink pretty much sits there (the way the drains work the left sink drain goes straight down, and the right sink tees into it.
So, by 6.45, it is shower time.

No pictures today.

Published 04/11/2025

Up at about 7:15, it felt good to sleep in a bit. Breakfast, then bible reading.

As we got started working on cleaning out the aft Lazerette (huge storage area) Miguel came by and introduced Abel who was our helper for getting diesel. He and Reneé went to the diesel station and made 3 trips bringing a total of 114 gallons of diesel getting us almost full. Before he could easily fill our tank, we had to move the boat from the starboard tie to the port tie, this was pretty easy, we fill over half of this pair of slips, so it was a matter of taking off shore power, then tossing lines across and untying the lines on the starboard dock and tying the lines on the port dock.

After finishing the fuel, it was lunch time. Then finish the aft lazarette.

When all of that was done we went after the cabinets under and behind the settee’s in the salon. All that is left now is the storage areas under the sole (floor).

 

No pictures today.

Published 04/11/2025

Up at 6:30, then off for breakfast to the “German” restaurant Kafe House for a fantastic breakfast, just too big! We both had to go boxes that we took back to the boat. Then we drove to Lukevile in Arizona (about 65 miles each way) to get parts for the propane system. Today we went to Duke’s for lunch, this is Wednesday so it is Healthy Green specials (salads). Followed by running around for plastic ware to replace the Tupperware so the good stuff can go home.

I went to a chiropractor here in Puerto Peñasco. Interesting things about him, he is only open after 4:30 in the afternoon, as he is busy as a family health Doctor during the daytime hours.

No pictures today.

Published 04/11/2025

Up at 6:30, breakfast, bible reading and then start moving stuff to the trailer.  That is about all we did all day.

No pictures today.