Have now been in Marina Palmira for 3 weeks, mainly to meet up with Scott and Monica from Scottfree. They have now left and gone back to the USA to see family. Had intended on going back across to the mainland but the weather has been really bad, 30+knots of wind and no 3-4 day weather window. So will stay here for Xmas. Lots of boaters stuck in various places around the Sea of Cortez due to unusual weather conditions. La Paz is a great place and if you enjoy a walk Marina Palmira is a good spot. Much prefer it to Marina La Paz. A couple of Turkish Gillets have sort of been abandoned on sides ties on the breakwayter wall. One of them decided to try and commit suicide and sprang a leak. It now blocks part of the main channel into all of the docks/slips.
Have been fixing a few things on Alex, anti siphon bends and gear linkages.
Had to move the boat from one slip to another , simple process........reverse out of existing slip, back up the channel a few slips, engage forward and slowly edge into new slip..................engage reverse to slow down and give it some revs. Boats speeds up forward........oh pooh ! Ram dock and the bow rises I foot. Gearbox linkage broken, no reverse gear. Repair that , repair bow and repair dock . Actually only took an hour to do the lot.