We Escaped Puerto Escondido
01 July 2009 | Anchored at Isla Coronados
Capt Rich
It took us 22 days, but we finally escaped the clutches of Puerto Escondido yesterday morning and spent the night anchored at Isla Coronados. I don't really remember much about the trip because I spent most of it in the port sail locker, otherwise known as the Captains Quarters, trouble shooting the alternator and regulator. It would appear that our battery problem was a result of our alternator regulator failing. Having a spare alternator and regulator onboard, I spent the afternoon swapping out parts and isolated the regulator as the culprit. There's another problem solved and I'm glad we found it before we installed the new batteries and fried them as well!
Today we are continuing our push north in order to make the 4th of July party at Bahia Conception and will make it about half way there today with a stop at two day stop at San Juanico. We have heard lots of good things about San Juanico so we wanted at least two nights there before making the final 48 mile push to Bahia Conception on the 3rd of July. It would have been nice to have left Escondido a week earlier to make the trip more leisurely, but you can't have everything even while out cruising, that "schedule boss" always tries to keep you under his thumb.
I'm back to making blog update posts over the ham radio, so no photos until we next get internet access, whenever that will be. I did update our morning position on the tracking map.