Thursday, May 1, 2014

5/1/2014: Preparing to leave the boat

This week has been cleaning, organizing, and planning the road trip back to Arizona. It has been pretty hot and humid, with mosquito's at night; we are loving our air conditioner!


We've removed both sails, and the solar panels, I also made sure to run fresh water through the outboard, and run all of the fuel out of it.



I still have to take care of the generator. We "pickled" our water maker, though not without some difficulty. The fuse for our boost pump blew, and it didn't seem to work right. Eventually we found our mistake; the brine discharge line was closed, and we were just pressurizing the system. A few calls to Cruise R/O and we got it working. Rich was great for answering our calls after hours. Great company!


We had a get together with some of the cruisers at the Baos restaurant here in the marina, as well as our friend Arturo from Macaw tours..


Later last night we had our first heavy downpour. We had a couple of hatches open, but luckily nothing got too wet, before we closed them. Unfortunately, there were a lot of clothes, tools, and books in the cockpit, hopefully, we'll get everything dried out before we leave on Saturday. 
We'll pick up the rental car tomorrow afternoon, and do some last minute running around, then head for Puebla first thing in the morning. It's going to take us a few days to get home. We'll stop in Mazatlan to see John and Lisa from Molly J and Dave from Rogue, then on to Hermosillo, Nogales, and Scottsdale eventually.






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