On June 29 Peggy and I flew home to San Diego to see friends and family and pickup equipment. We spent July 3 – 6 in the Bay area visiting my son Bryan and Peggy’s Aunt Pat and Uncle Frank and her cousins. We also went to a 4th of July party with my Berkeley friends. And then back to SD for a bit. On July 13 I flew back to Puerto Escondido with a bag full of boat equipment. Peggy will join me July 17.
Puerto Escondido is really nice. It is one of the best protected harbors anywhere. If we had to ride out a hurricane, this is where I’d want to be.
The marina is new, everything works, the water is potable and the wifi is decent in the marina. I am currently in the ‘cruisers lounge’ where the wifi is over 60mbps up and down! 🙂 The lounge also has a big screen tv, air conditioning and a kitchen.
There is also a nice restaurant, a market with a pretty good assortment of veggies and everything else. And there is a swimming pool! It is a very comfortable place to be.
Yesterday one of my projects was putting wheels on our dinghy. This will make it MUCH easier to drag up the beach and it will prevent our outboard motor from dragging. We really like the electric outboard (ePropulsion Spirit 1.0+) but when we beach the boat with the motor tilted up, it still drags in the sand. The dinghy wheels will fix that problem as well.
When I was installing the wheels, I dropped a 10mm socket and, of course, it went into the water! In the next slip, the boat was getting its bottom cleaned by two guys using a hookah diving system. When they saw what happened, they came right over and retrieved the socket for me! That made my day!
Other projects include replacing the jib furling line, washing the boat, putting the clears back on the helm (a set of clear plastic windows that we took down when we left) and putting the jib back up. I will do the jib tomorrow morning. The rest of the work is done. Time for me to head to the pool. 🙂
(I had gotten way behind on posting so you may have noticed that my posts the past couple weeks have been ‘back dated’. When I do a post, I use the date the event happened, not when I actually post. That makes all the posts show in chronological order, even though you may see them in the order I post. I hope that’s not confusing.)