Acapulco - VIP Movies Cinépolis, wow! - 2015

End of January 2015 - Anchored in Acapulco  , Mexico

This is the coolest thing! Going to the movies and getting waited on for food, really comfortable love-seat recliners and a big screen! 

  We have already gone to the movies twice :)  (We saw "Elsa and Fred" the first time - not great - then "Night at  the Museum 3" - this was very entertaining!!)

Acapulco - Bottom cleaning - 2015

Middle of January 2015 - Anchored in Acapulco , Mexico
We cleaned the bottom before we left Zihuatanejo with Debbie doing the water line and I dove the bottom.  Here in Acapulco I cleaned the water line and below as far as I could reach. This gave me something to do as I swam around for exercise and the bottom can use it.

Zihuatanejo Malecon - 2015

Beginning of January 2016 - Anchored in Zihuatanejo , Mexico
Taken from the stern of our boat s\v Elegant'sea You can see a walk over bridge and the walk goes over rocks and all the way around the bay.

Acapulco Capitania de Puerto - 2015

middle of January 2015 - Anchored in Acapulco, Mexico 
You can see the Port Capitania office building from our boat. How easy can it get!

Sailing from Papanoa to Acapulco passage - 2015

Middle of January 2015 - Anchored in Acapulco, Mexico


We went from Zihua to Papanoa (aka Puerto Vicente Guerrero) and had a lovely two day rest.  It was a quiet fishing village with a breakwater protected anchorage.  Not a lot of room for too many boats but plenty for us (and another boat came and went while we were there).  Then we left at 2am - luckily still had the moon so the early morning hours were vivid with stars and a calm sea. 

When are boat rollers not boat rollers, beach pangas - 2015

January 12, 2015 - Anchored in  Acapulco, Mexico

When we were having breakfast at 100% Natural Cafe, we noticed some fishermen on the beach - using wooden rollers to launch their panga into the surf.  Further on, we saw those same type of rollers stuck in the sand as goal posts for the soccer game they were playing. It was quite amusing!!

Click on photo to enlarge it to see what we saw with these rollers!!
A beautiful morning!!

Arrived in Acapulco went to 100% Natural Cafe with a nice dinghy landing - 2015

1\12\2015 - Anchored in  Acapulco, Mexico
s\v Elegant'sea at anchor in Acapulco - as seen 
from the restaurant 100% Natural Cafe!

Sailing from Papanoa (Morro de Papanoa) to Acapulco - 2015

Beginning of January 2015 - Anchored in Papanoa , Mexico

Picture was taken as it was being built for the shrimp fleet.
We will be leaving Papanoa at 2 AM 1\9 tonight for Acapulco .  We will have a three-quarter moon to light our way!

Sailing from Zihuatanejo to Papanoa (Morro de Papanoa) to anchor - 2015

Beginning of January 2015 Papanoa (Morro de Papanoa)
Anchoring more over by the cement pier may save some rolling from the wave reflating into the bay.

Anchor watch app with Samsung Galaxy tablet - 2015

Beginning of January 2015 in Zihuatanejo, Mexico

 Sitting here in anchored in Zihuatanejo we have been playing with the anchor watch app on our Samsung galaxy tablet. The one we have is free but comes with a price :)  The price being some things do not work. Like the "Reset" button or if the alarm goes off the stop button does not stop the alarm which is bells sounding. So that makes you wonder if the rest is OK. Do we bet our boat on this app?

 We have been looking for others and may even pony up some pesos for one if we decide we like it. 

VacuFlush J- Series Vacuum Generator failed - 2015

Beginning of January 2015 Zihuatanejo, Mexico

What happened is the VacuFlush J-Series Vacuum Generator stopped making a vacuum. So no working toilet. Again we had to dig out the porta-potty! Next day we took apart the toilet and found nothing wrong. We cleaned the parts and then took off the hose to the J-Series Vacuum Generator. We did find some deposits of hard water we broke off and cleaned the hose and fitting to new condition.

Las Hadas/Manzanillo to Zihuatanejo passage - 2014

End of December 2014  Zihuatanejo, Mexico
Our passage from Las Hadas/Manzanillo to Zihuatanejo was a two overnighter. I have decided we will, if we can, avoid the two overnighters from now on. I do not do so good on the second night. Our watches are about 3 hours at a time starting a 9 PM to 6 AM.