Water spout just outside La Cruz Marina.
I must apologize for the long delay in getting an update posted. We have been extremely busy with my mother visiting, getting the boat ready for the big jump and the overwhelming list of social events here in Puerto Vallarta, La Cruz and Paradise Marina associated with the Pacific Puddle Jump. We presently have over 120 boats registered as part of the PPJ-2010 which is quite mind boggling when one thinks about the idea so many people will be crossing the pacific during a strong El Nino year...more on El Nino later!
Lori's latest major project that she has been working on for weeks. These are what they call Dinghy Chaps...I call them long project ;-)
Lori did a super duper wonderful job on our dinghy chaps. Now we can hang with the rest of the in-style cruisers.
A couple weeks ago I mentioned that we had some water spouts during an unusually strong morning downpour. As you can see in the photo, the Spouts were quite substantial and they were located almost on top of the La Cruz anchorage where there are typically 20 - 30 vessels sitting on the hook. Apparently the marina filled-up very quickly following this event.
Finally saw our first Croc...not big, but a croc nonetheless.
There are 100s..maybe 1000s of these Iguanas hanging in the trees around Paradise Marina during the middle of the day sunning themselves on the branches.
So, the water spouts were a couple weeks ago...and last evening at around mid-night, we had an enormous wind and rain event come through Paradise Marina. The winds were clocked at 80+knots at the marina and over 100 knots in the mountains just outside Puerto Vallarta. We woke this morning to many downed palm trees and huge old growth Fig trees that were completely up-rooted. The boat was thrown around in the slip quite violently while Lori and I both lashed down as much as we could and tripled the dock lines. Lori was completely freaked-out as she has never experienced winds and rain that strong and violent...I have on only one occasion in Long Beach during a water spout. We both agreed that we were glad to have decided to hang for awhile longer in Paradise Marina. I'm sure that the other boats on anchor in La Cruz were tossed if not damaged.
Mom and son at "The Bar Above"
Drinks served at sunset!
While my mother visited, we took her on some tourista trips like whale watching, Mexican bus trips, and shopping in Old Town. I think she had fun and I know we walked her nearly to death. She is lucky she didn't come to visit us in Mazatlan where we really walked a lot. We also took her to Bucerias to a wonderful bar called "The Bar Above" that only serves deserts, after dinner drinks and cigars...all located on the 4th floor roof over looking Banderas Bay at sunset. As you can see in the pictures, cigars, vodka and Mexican Sunsets were the order of the evening.
Lori in the rain just outside Los Archos PV.
Ah...the new course. OZ by year end maybe???
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For the past several weeks we have been really busy working on Trim to get her ready for the next phase of her voyage. We started out with the TLC portion which mostly involves a little guy named Juanito who does excellent varnish work, great SEMCO and his entire family took part in polishing the stainless. On a couple days it seemed we had an army working on the boat. Trim has never looked so good!
This is Juanito working away at the varnish and decks. He shows-up at the crack of dawn and pounces on the decks to wake us and let us know he is at work. He has been working on Trim for nearly 3 weeks straight and sometimes Juanito's entire extended family comes down to help with the polishing job. They actually use tooth brushes to polish the stainless steel! Try getting someone to do that in the States.
In the meantime we are ordering and installing a list of items that we have learned are important that we didn't include in prior provisioning such as transmission rebuild kits, spare injectors, oil for at least 8 complete changes (16+ gallons), back-up inverters, starter motors, back-up watermaker motors, more watermaker filters than ever before thought necessary, fishing tackle, 400# test line, many more lures, reduction in the length of the genaker, spare parts for wind generator, another solar panel...etc etc and the list grows daily.
Trim sitting in her slip at Paradise Marina. The marina is essentially located in a swamp/river where there are crocidiles. We haven't seen any yet, but everyone tells us they are there and there are numerous signs telling you not to feed them.
The decks and varnish are look'n good!!!
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It continues to grow!!
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01/19/2010, Puerto Vallarta
I somehow found myself in charge of making T-shirts for this years Pacific Puddle Jump. This is what I've got so far...
Front graphic over pocket.
Back graphic with boat names.
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Added Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta Photos
Click Here>>>>Mazatlan & Puerto Vallarta Jungle
Click Here>>>>Old Town Puerto Vallarta
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