After a night in Punta Perula on Chamela Bay, we continued southward. We stopped for the day in Tenacatita, or actually just down the road around the bay from Tenacatita. We had Ouest’s second birthday in this bay. It’s a nice campground, right on the water, with hundreds and hundreds … Read More
Laundry and Garbage
I dove in today with scrapers in hand and found that it was amazing this boat moved at all when we left Barra. The bottom was a giant mass of growth. Hundreds of pounds of fist sized plants, quite beautiful actually, had attached themselves to our fifteen or so year-old … Read More
Tenacatita
Busy mornings filled with kids’ breakfast, play, and Lowe’s sporadic naps. Afternoons spent on the beach and in the restaurant. Nights playing on deck as the sun slips underneath the hills, one last kids’ meal, and bedtime stories. Today we hung out with friends we last saw in San Francisco. … Read More
A Challenge, But Good Too
This is why everyone cruising in Mexico has a dinghy with wheels. That’s two hundred and some odd pounds of dinghy there. No problem for Ali and I back in the day, but the four extra legs and feet aren’t really helping much right now. Life aboard is a bit … Read More
Beach Break
So I isolated the starter battery today and went to fire up the engine. Nothing. That battery, despite reading 12.2v couldn’t even begin to turn the engine over. Normally this would be evident easily enough because the starter battery and the house batteries should be isolated from each other, joined … Read More
Moving On
We motored out of Barra this morning in calm water and hot still air. It’s only a thirteen mile jaunt around the corner to Tenacatita so it should have been simple enough, but halfway I realized that the batteries weren’t charging. Scratch that, they were charging, but slowly. And while … Read More
An Amazing Bay
This morning I tackled the gremlin that’s been taunting me in the engine compartment since we arrived. The problem remains the shaft coupler. I’ve been calling it a tranny coupler, but have since been corrected. The problem has been that when I back down hard in reverse the shaft is … Read More
Ouest is Two
Big birthday today! So we started the morning off with some boat work. Because no day, birthdays included, is complete without a couple hours of bloody knuckles in the engine. But soon enough the engine work was put on the back burner and the celebration kicked off. We blew up … Read More
Dolphins in the Bay
We set out this morning for Tenacatita. But not before raising the anchor by hand thanks to a dead windlass battery. I later discovered that the battery combiner wasn’t working and I was able to just bolt the two wires together for a temporary fix. The dinghy davits, which it … Read More