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
Hanging on the Hook
Spent another day solely on the boat. It’s amazing to me how we can pass an entire day in this small space without any problem whatsoever. Ouest is the only one who you would really expect to complain about it, but she seems completely content to be bobbing around at … Read More
Lowe’s a Sailor
Finally time to move on. We were ready this morning when the kids got up, and at eight-thirty, just half an hour behind schedule we were ready to take off. A couple of dock workers were there to throw off our lines and we could be on our way. The … Read More
Read the Signs
Ouest went to bed last night just fine. Two hours later she had a runny nose and woke up roughly every thirty minutes to moan for five minutes before drifting off again. Needless to say we did not get enough sleep. So today it was no big surprise to look … Read More
Moving Soon
We’re just sort of wrapping things up around here. Today the boat got one seriously hard core washing. The first, really, since we bought her. Feels so good I just want to roll around in the cockpit and rub my cheeks on the coaming. The covered wagon sunshade came down … Read More
Going (soon)
Busy day trying to get the last of the boat projects wrapped up for now. The last of the things that actually need doing, not the last of the projects. There is no such thing as the last of the boat projects. Ask anyone. Of all the stupid projects I needed to … Read More
Border Run
Lowe touched American soil for the first time yesterday, decided that was enough for now, and walked back in to Mexico this morning. We needed new visas. We could have easily risked becoming illegal aliens in Mexico, chances are it would have never become an issue. But one can never be … Read More