Hi Ho!
It's siesta time. We put in a good morning. And after lunch and a little rest we will get back to it. We gave our new little shop vac a good workout. We bought it to use w/ the orbital sander when we get around to doing the bottom paint, but it's doing yeoman duty today. It's had to believe how much dust and crud is all over the boat.
We've gotten most of the aluminum foil, duct tape, cardboard, shrink wrap plastic, etc., pulled down and into the basura (trash) barrel. And we've bailed out the cockpit locker that was full of water. I estimate 30 gallons! Luckily that was the only standing water in the boat. The guy next to us in the work yard has an Irwin 54. He says he had many water leaks into the boat's interior and that he had a real mess to deal with.
The batteries were down to 13.7 volts yesterday and this morning down to 13.5. We got the power cord attached and all seems fine. At first we were charging at 20.5 amps, but that soon dropped to 1.4 amps. When we broke for lunch we were up to 14.0 Volts, which is just right for gel cells. We had a bucket full of dry cell batteries that we left in the boat 18 months ago. We put a meter to them and most are toast. We lost one LED flashlight. The AA batteries had swollen and could not be removed. OH Well!
And we lost one of the spreader lights that are used to light up the decks when needed at night. The wind must have blown away the retaining ring that holds the sealed beam bulb in place. The bulb was smashed and there are bits of broken glass from it all over the cabin top and decks. The bulb must have been dangling from it's wires for awhile. We found the part of the bulb that is screwed to the wires. It had the screw and the terminal ring still attached. It looks like I have a little bosun chair work to do.
Janie's got lunch ready. We'll write more later.
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We are waking up slowly this AM.
We have some issues w/ the apt. Not as clean as we would like. Also no laundry machines or microwave. We sent an email to the management people last night. The lady went to a yoga class at 9:00 this morning in Guaymas and said she'd check in w/ us afterwards. There are three or four guys in the back patio now hooking up the laundry. Or trying to. There does not seem to be a drain. They don't speak English and my Spanish is not up to the job. But they are busy and we think that is a good sign.
Our Jeep is standing about 6" taller now that it has had it's load of boat stuff out. The back bedroom is pretty full. It's amazing how much stuff the Jeep was able to swallow. Reminds me of a series of pictures on the internet. Some sort of snake swallowing a lizard.
Later....we went to Marina Seca again today. Adagio was supposed to float at 1pm, but that changed to about 2:30. We walked around the storage yard, took pictures of Adagio (she looks pretty well considering), and found Rosebud. She looks good too - and, there is a real garden growing under her! It's interesting and pretty to see everything so green. The bugs, however, are a nightmare. We went to celebrate our arrival at Charlie's Rock last night and we were swatting bugs non-stop. It was bad enough that we got out of there before we finished our dinner.
Jeff has gone back to the yard to supervise the move and I'm taking a few hours off. The washer and dryer are working (outside), the microwave and blender are back in the kitchen, the bug exterminator is due tomorrow, they have cleaned the floor and the patio furniture and a guy is on the roof now working on the Direct TV. Turns out some of this stuff made it's way to the housekeepers house while this one was being painted. I'm glad I knew it was supposed to be here or we would have been out of luck.
Keep in touch. We'll do the same.
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Hola Everybody,
Just a note to let you all know we made it to San Carlos safe and sound. A little tired and very glad that the driving is over. The Jeep is unpacked and we have pretty well moved into the apartment.
Going across the border turned out to be pretty anti-climactic. There were three inspection posts. One just inside Mexico, another at km 21, and a third further in from there. At the first, the young lady guard asked if we had anything to declare. We said, "no". She kind of looked at the pile of stuff in the back and asked again, "Nothing?". When we replied, "No. Nothing." She said, "Have a nice day and waved us on." At Km 21 they didn't even talk w/ us. They just waved us through. At the third, a male officer walked up to us when we stopped at the barrier. He started speaking Spanish to us and I asked if he spoke English. He said, "No." then broke out into a broad smile with twinkling eyes, and said if I was going to visit Mexico I needed to practice some Spanish. Then we had a pleasant conversation about how long we were going to be staying and just general banter. When he seemed comfortable that we were not up to no good, he said, "Have a nice day!" and waved us on. That was the last of the check points. By then I suppose we were about 25 miles into Mexico. And we did not see another check point for the rest of the 250 miles we drove. None of the officers asked to see our visas or any ID. We never had to get out of the car. And no one asked to look inside the car.
It took longer for the guards at Hoover Dam to check us out before allowing us to cross the dam than it took to get through all of the Mexican Border check posts.
The Mexican roads were OK, but not nearly as smooth as those we drove in the good old US of A. Because the Jeep was so overloaded, we bottomed out pretty regularly, and on a few stretches of the highway we had to slow way down when the Jeep began to sway from side to side. There were several wrecks along the way. The first involved a bus, a Jeep and a couple of pick-ups. Neither Janie nor I got a very good look at what happened. I was too busy watching the various men waving their arms directing traffic and doing my best to drive through the tangle of vehicles that seemed to be going everywhere at once.
As we got closer to San Carlos we were surprised by how green everything is. We suppose it's from all the water Hurricane Jimena dumped on the place. It looks like she caused a real growth spurt. But maybe it's just the difference between summer and winter. We did see some evidence of the flooding Jimena caused. Piles of earth and rock dug out from under highway overpasses. And a few places where the pavement of the road into town is missing or severely weathered. The poor palm trees in the center divide are looking pretty sad. Lots of fronds missing. They look like they will survive. But they won't be pretty for a few years.
We arrived at Marina Seca in time to check in at the office. They look pretty busy. No spaces open in the work yard. But they are going to float two boats tomorrow morning and so will have room to put us in in the afternoon. The inside of the office looks good. New paint and carpet. The parking lot is getting ready to be repaved. The road into Marina Seca is graded, but is still not paved or even oiled. The guard wears a dust mask as protection from the dust cars kick up driving in and out.
That's about it for now. I think I hear a bottle of tequilla calling my name. We hope you all had a Happy Halloween. We'll post pictures and write more later.
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