Sailing the Karina C

Puerto Escondido from the cockpit of the helicopter I keep in the sail locker;-)
We motored in windless conditions all the way to Puerto Escondido. Things are the same here with the addition of a small marina in the old canals dug many years ago. They have been dredged and slips have been made for about 30 boats. No office. Once in a while a worker comes around. They have absolutely no business sense as they want $2 per foot per day. There are a few takers though. Not in our tax bracket. There seems to be a sliding scale of prices for boats moored in the place. They seem to ask a lot and then you barter with them. I guess it isn't really odd here in Mexico.
We immediately swung into high gear with doing laundry and getting food. We have steak and salad tonight for supper. Yum! Anita did a load of laundry and I cleared 3 weeks worth of email. Caught up on all the news and we are pleased about the bank account as it is approaching where we left Canada. It has recovered from the repairs and canvas work that we had done down here.
The weather is warm (low 80s-high 70s F). While Anita was hanging laundry on the boat, I went over and BSed with Kip. He had some interesting ideas on what to do with the propshaft situation. It seems to be back to its old tricks, so tightening the motor mount bolts didn't quite do the job. I will look at other solutions tomorrow in the morning. There are more bolts to play with in the motor compartment. It may have to wait until I get to a dock and I can put the thing in gear and go down and watch the thing freak out from the sail locker. A big job for sure.
It feels safe here and we are satisfied with the port arrangements. We will stay here until we leave next Tuesday and continue our journey N. Not so safe were the boats here on the last 'Norther. One boat had a full 5 gallon gas can blow clean off the boat and into the water. That's a lot of weight. Some boats reported winds of 50+ knots. The most we saw in Salinas was 30+. I guess that was a break.