Up about 7:30, breakfast and the net. Bible reading and catching up on the blog.
Eddie is due here today to remove the port winch and get it machined. Charlie is due here today to work on the aft A/C unit.
John Pounder will be here Thursday with a couple of helpers to work on the wiring.
Eddie was here as expected took the winch apart and took the part that needed machining to the shop. No sign of Charlie.
Spent the day going through paperwork and notes on the boat about the solar panels, (old and new) as I might have a buyer for the old panels and controller.
Eddie was back at about 2:30 to reinstall the winch!
No sign of Charlie, so as it is 4 pm, we are off to the pool.
Tomorrow night we will be going to the show at 9 pm with the crew of an IP38, it is a fire show. Mike and Jennifer.
Port Jib Wince removed for repairAll back to normal!
Up at 7:30 or so, breakfast and getting organized. Then off to the new church. The advantage is that it is within walking distance, so no bus this morning.Ok, so that was the plan. Plans for us are written in the sand at low tide.
The closer church doesn’t meet during low season (hurricane season is low season). So, we caught a cab and went to our regular church, arriving after the first two songs (the ones that always seem to have the light show that I don’t like).
After church we went to a new restaurant and brought a new couple to the church. They are only here this week, but are working on establishing a relationship with Pastor Freddie. Larry from the new couple is a pastor in Ohio.
Larry and his wife Kendra gave us a ride back to our boat, then we rested for a bit and went to the pool and happy hour.
At the pool we met Chip and Kristine from S/V Second Set. They arrived here yesterday in the marina. They will keep their boat here for hurricane season and will be flying out in a couple of weeks.
Then back to the boat, dinner showers and bed.
The restaurant we had lunch at.quite possibly the least used appliance in MexicoYou can tell you are in Paradise, when you see the kids doing this. Yes, she has a computer under that towel. We are next to the pool and maybe 200 feet to the ocean across the beach.
Then Reneé headed off to do laundry, and I started into replace the control panel for the generator. This MIGHT be the reason it doesn’t run, as one of the switches pushed through the face of the circuit board that is the control panel. The following is a text I sent to some of my engineer friends to express my frustration.
“Hey, what follows is a rant. No action required, just thought I would let you know what I am dealing with. I am working on our generator. As usual, I really hate engineers who design without a thought to maintenance. I am in the process of changing the control panel. The instructions are pretty straight forward. One thing of note, the old control panel grounds the coils for the relays, the new one powers the coils. There’s at least 8 fuses in this setup. 6 in a fuse box that is mounted to the side vertically (vs on the bottom with the fuses visible). The screws that hold the control panel on go to nuts that are NOT captive, and are almost impossible to reach. So, of course I dropped 2, further disassembly required.”
Reneé got back to the boat about noon, and I was still getting familiar with exactly what I was looking at inside the control box of the generator that I had to rewire.
By 4 pm I was done working on the diagrams and pictures to understand what needed to be changed. We walked out to Ciao’s restaurant to see about church on Sunday and then took the bus to Cavernita’s restaurant for dinner. Renee’ had a stuffed potato, I had ribs. Then we walked back to the boat. We stopped at the store and got a container of ice cream.Then back on the boat we got showers and watched the first half of the movie TRUE LIES.
This is the sign that told us there was a church service here on Sunday, except that they don’t meet during hurricane seasonPOLITICS! The name of this area was Nuevo Vallarta until January of this year when the new Governor changed it to Nuevo Nayarit. This is about publicity. Puerto Vallarta is in the state of Jalisco. Nuevo Nayarit is in the state of Nayarit.This is an example of “belt and suspenders”. The boat is tied to the pier, and has their anchor down.
We moved kinda slow this morning, after a late night playing games with friends.We went through our regular morning routine then asked “Now what?”Chava (the stainless guy) came for his money.He installed our repaired swim ladder and it’s beautiful!Neil worked on transferring movies from a friend’s hard drive and I made potato salad.Eddie came with a friend to clean the electric winches.We decided to look at the salon and fwd stateroom AC units and it’s a good thing we did!They were filthy! We got them cleaned.Next…pool and happy hour!
Up and breakfast, and Reneé off the boat at 8:30, headed to Refuge of Hope to listen to the kids read for a couple of hours.
A couple of days ago, I heard that there was internet (wired) at the dock. Today I got it setup! This is 5 Mbs download for $1 US per day. While not incredibly fast, it will allow me to set up the software so I can check on the battery charger and solar panels on the boat while we are in the states. If there is a problem that I can’t resolve remotely, I can have someone down here fix the issue once I see it.
The woodworker showed up at 10:30 as promised. So, that is progressing well.
As we had planned we met with Curt and Jill from S/V Namahana and John and Jace from S/V Arcane and played Mexican Train and had hors d’oeuvres. Afterwards we stopped by with Curt and Jill and borrowed “some” movies to copy to our hard drive (slightly more than 3000 movies).Then showers and bed.
