Friends!
03 May 2018 | San Carlos Bay
Bill/sunny and blowing
We just got back from having lunch with old friends we met clear back in Fiji in 2011 when we were in Vuda Point Marina. Blue, our little tabby cat had just fallen overboard(tried to walk along the outside teak rail just past the nets on the lifelines)and had climbed up the rough concrete walls of the marina, tearing out a claw and damaging another. We had heard that there was a Vet in the marina and she(Janice) came right over and got her all bandaged up. Janice also does Acupuncture on animals so Blue got stuck with a few really thin needles. Janice remark that Blue seemed to have “anger issues”. When Janice put the needle in the top of her head, she looked up at us and turned over and went to sleep, anger seemed gone. Janice returned several times over the next few weeks till Blue was recovered. We also got to meet her husband, Tom and the friendship blossomed. We met over and over again as we both crossed the Pacific and finally parted ways in Micronesia as we were rebuilding our poor broken engine. Since then we have stayed in touch. They live in Nogales and keep their boat in San Carlos coming down everyso often to work on her. It just so happens that they had a trip down scheduled for when we would be here and we got together yesterday on a baech in Algodones Bay and had lunch today in San Carlos. It was so great to sit down with them again. It was like we had just seen them not the five years it has actually been. A great couple. We will be visiting them again on our trips back and forth as we come and go from Puerto Penasco later this Summer.
Yesterday, we found that the stainless steel black water tank in the sternhead had popped another hole in its side so this morning, I took off the wall panels, found the hole, cleaned the side of the tank and mixed up some JB Weld and smeared it over the hole and a couple of other places that looked kind of suspicious. Put the wall panels back on and now we wait till the next hole pops. We will be ordering another tank made of polystyrene when we get home. This one is at the end of its life and needs to go.
Snowshoe, our constipated Persian cat finally went to the head and did his business. He started having a problem clear back in Thailand and we had it under control for the last three years but sometimes the food he needed wasn’t available and we had to give him something else. It took a while but he finally got stopped up again so instead of going every other day, it was once every three to four days and he finally went while we were in having lunch(shy maybe?). It’s a relief that he finally went. Janice was nice enough to actually find a bag of the original food the vet in Thailand put
him on so with luck, in a few days he might be back to his normal schedule (and here you thought this post was all about boats and sailing)
It’s blowing again as the forecast said it would with steady wind in the teens and gusts into the 20s. Our wind generator is spinning nicely in the stern helping to put a few more volts back in our batteries. An ongoing battle. Usage versus capacity.
Forecasts are for south to southwest winds by Sunday so we will probably be off then or Saturday if they get here sooner.