Sailing the Karina C

Walking with friends in San Evaristo.
Later in the afternoon the neighbour moved to a poorer spot (in my regard as to the safety of Karina) without any discussion. So we resolved to move over to Salinas on the S side of Isla San Jose. Soon after getting underway we noticed the wow back in the propshaft. It is sad since that is what we spent so much money on this winter over at the Berkovich yard. After brief consideration we have resolved to head for the barn from Puerto Escondido. From there we will slowly decommission Karina and take the propshaft and mixing elbow back to Canada where someone who knows something about these things can make it right. I will hire a Mexican to snuggle into the sail locker and winkle off the elbow and the propshaft. That job will take ½ of the day. The rest of the day will be the usual decommissioning procedures. We will spend the night at the marina and get going early the next morning(04/09).
Salinas was a nice spot. Soon after getting the hook down the alarm went on the engine. It turned out to be a plugged water intake. 3 hours later we had the intake cleared by blowing air from the dive tank into the water intake. Once that was done, we promptly proceeded to destroy the remains of the infastructure of the cooling system by breaking the wingnut off the salt water filter. I managed to drill into the plastic wingnut and drive a screwdriver into the hole and get the remaining part off the filter bowl. Then, I found a bolt and nut that had the same thread and got that into the hole. That was a break. Just so I wasn't through the job easily, I managed to drop the multiscrewdriver into the bilge and it took another 45 minutes to fish all the parts out.
The afternoon was very nice. We both had a seawater bath with a freshwater rinse. Then, while Anita worked on the supper salad, I laid on the foredeck and watched the wind clock from the S to W to NW and later to N. My lazy dreaming was interrupted by Anita's panicked screams of bees in the cockpit. Seems they liked the showerhead. I dragged the whole mess onto the foredeck and proceeded to kill the remaining bees(~30). Once they left, I had a brief nap in the V berth while Anita finished the salad. At 1600 we went over to the beach and had BBQed fish, steak, salad, lentils, cornbread muffins topped off with cold beer and some coke and the legendary Ron Reno. This we enjoyed supper with Steve (from Aurora), Cathy and Reno. We packed it up as darkness was approaching. We went back to Karina where we enjoyed a wonderful evening of feeding Anita's ego by playing backgammon.
It is 20:26 and I am getting ready for bed. Anita has been working on tomorrow's supper. We are hosting Cathy and Reno for supper and Mexican trains. In spite of the propshaft difficulties, we are surely happier here that we could be in Nanaimo with the cold and rain going on. We are anchored in a beautiful spot with a pretty girl making my eyes water by chopping onions. We will turn in soon as I can't take the crying.