Starting line: The Mexican Riviera
25 November 2008 | Mazatlan
Gabriellas grandpa
Here I implore all of you to leave comments, but I slack off on posting blog updates......I'm not being fair and Gabriella and her mommy has chastised me. Had a pleasant 24 hour sail then another 20 hour motoring to reach Mazatlan. I anchored in the old harbor for the first day and night then moved on over to the Marina Mazatlan area to get a slip at my favorite Singlar marina. I met up with my old friends Jared(Jorge) and the gorgeous girls of the office, Claudia and Alma. Don't worry Ariana, your still number one in my book. I checked out the Thanksgiving dinner thing here and came to the conclusion that things have changed from last year. It is $10 dollars cheaper and there is real turkey. I know for sure because I volunteered to carve a couple of them. So what to do in a marina while waiting for Thanksgiving to come and go? I actually got the motivation to thoroughly clean and organize the interior of the barge..er..boat. In the last 2 days I've only done the port side, but today I should whizz through the rest of the boat. I also had my spare diesel injectors refurbished in Guaymas for $40.....good price. So I noticed a lot of black sooty stuff spreading around my exhaust outlet and asked the local mechanic what it was....his answer was injectors. I will now install the rebuilt injectors and hope it cures my RPM problems as well. Saturday I will depart for Isla Isabella where the water visibility is phenominal and hope to do some diving to get some good underwater pics. I think my nose will be healed well enough for that. The sad part of having my wonderful XM radio down here is the dismal news about the economy. I hope all of you up north are fairing well. My prayers are with you all. I'm posting a few more pics in the gallery. Better eat my Cheerios and get busy finishing my putz-frau work.