Marina de Navidad to Bahia Santiago; 2/17/2014

 First a correction, our friends Kyle and Herman are aboard the vessel Pacific Pioneer, not Prospector. Those guys were great!

We had breakfast up at the Wyndam Grand Resort, and hung out with them for a few days while our Mainsail was repaired at Hogin Sails.
 Laura gave us great service at a good price. The repairs were minor; 2 new batten pockets, and replacement of the leech line, luckily we still had some spectra leftover from our safety netting.

The next issue was the engine overheating during our grounding. I checked all of the usual culprits in order of simplicity. I removed the impeller, it looked fine, so I re-installed it, Next was the seawater strainer.. removed, cleaned, and re-installed,.. check the through-hull, fine.

We decided to call Jonco repairs, John showed up on time, and we quickly found out that one of the hot water outlets on the engine ( for the hot water heater) had broken off! So, we had a hole in our engine, that blew out all of the coolant and water we added. Anyway, he removed the broken threads, and plugged the outlet, easy fix, he came back the next morning and in less than an hour, had it fixed. He even commented on what great condition the engine is in. 

We did get into town with the water taxis, and found the prize catch of a marlin tournament.

Incidentally, Pacific Pioneer is a no kill, sport fishing boat, We really commend them for that! Why kill this majestic fish for fun?

 After visiting with Dave from Rogue, and meeting Liz from the sandbar, we got up the next morning headed for Bahia Santiago. The wind was straight off the bow for most of the 7 hour transit, there were strong currents that reduced our speed from 6 kts. down to 2.3!  Later in the day we got  a break and the wind came around enough that we did get the Genoa unfurled for an hour or two. Now, we've heard of a Monitor windvane for sale, we have had 3800 miles of hand steering. We've got to check it out.

Blogging with slow/ intermittent internet is a true test of patience. I'm done for now.