Life on a boat is just different, and for us the end of the year leads to a list of yearly maintenance items that today included our friend Simon coming over for a rigging inspection and tuning.



Maintenance on a boat never really ends with the sea and elements trying to seduce the boat to rest firmly on the bottom. Our job as boat owners is to resist the forces of nature and keep the boat floating.



We have been working through our list of items needing attention before we leave La Paz and make our way south to the Mexican mainland. Last night we were talking to a boat in Z-town that reported a 82 degree water temperature, which sounds fabulous considering I was wearing wool socks during the 6PM radio net!

Most of the maintenance items are just small little things, but it was a "small little thing" after all that lead to our $1200 transmission rebuild last season, so it pays to look after the little things before they erupt into a forced sail back to Mazatlan. Some of our pre-departure projects are:
Repair two of our 4 night navigation lights out
Repair the two broken blocks
Oil changes for the main engine and it's fuel pump along with our 8K genset
Electrical repair on our Oil Pressure and Temperature gauges that are somehow reading 1/2 of what they should
and check and service our hydrolic steering system and autopilot.

With a plan to jump straight from La Paz to the warmer climates of Barra (about a 450mi trip) fixing the little things now from the comfort of the La Paz anchorage is the thing to do.

Oh and one more....I need a new shower hot/cold mixing valve, but the hope is I won't need the hot water once I make it to the warm Mexican mainland, so that one may just wait for now.