Chip & Debbie Willis on s\v Elegant'sea: February 2016

Music + Mexican Train Dominoes, on the beach in Santiago - 2016

End of February 2016 - Anchored in Santiago , Mexico

The other day, we were at the Ramada El Rey, to play some Mexican Train Dominoes with Jim and Jess on s\v Hajime - a Tartan 37 and Alan and Elizabeth -on s\v Vivacia a Caliber 40 LRC.

Anchored in Las Hadas , went to Paradise Restaurant - 2016

End of February 2016 - Anchored in Las Hadas, Mexico

We took the dingy into the Paradise Restaurant in Las Hadas, a cruiser friendly place. The beach landing was fine but you do need to watch for high tide as your dinghy will bang up against the sea wall. We had good food WiFi and enjoyed the pool.

Starboard Paddle board repair - yet again

End of December 2015 - Anchored in Bahia de Navidad lagoon, MexicoCurrently anchored in Santiago end of February.

Posting on the blog is not easy as WiFi has been hard to come by and on shore with a tablet it is hard.

Here we go again! Debbie is patching our Starboard Whopper inflatable Paddle board :(

We have about given up on this blow-up SUP. We will fix it if we can and sell it off.

So far this patch has not worked.

We are hoping to get a local who has experience in this to fix the Starboard Paddle board. We are in Santiago now and have found a person. Now to get him to do the job, not always easy here :)

Sailed from Barra de Navidad to Santiago, Second Time this Winter - 2016

End of February 2016 - Anchored in Las Hadas, Manzanillo, Mexico

Our passage from Barra de Navidad to Santiago was quite nice. The s/v Seychelles was a ways ahead of us and they came upon a long lone.

Facebook "Women Who Sail" Event at Los Arroyo Verde in Bucerias -2016

Event occurred in December 2015 however we are writing this blog entry at the end of February 2016 - Anchored in Las Hadas, Mexico

This is Lupe, the owner of Los Arroyos Verde in Bucerias and hostess for the event.

Achilles dinghy tiller arm extension - pvc - 2016

Beginning of February 2016 - Anchored in Barra-Bahia de Navidad lagoon, Mexico

As you can see the Honda 9.9 outboard motor has a tiller extension.

Beta 38 impeller checked or replaced before every cruising season - 2016

Beginning of February 2016 - Anchored in Bahia de Navidad lagoon, Mexico

Before we left Paradise Village Marina in Banderas Bay in November 2015 for this cruising season among other things we checked the Beta Marine 38 impeller for wear.

Debbie up the mast of our friends' boat, s/v Falcon (Dave and Pat) to retrieve a pennant halyard from the spreader..easy peasy with a bosun's chair and two strong men (Dave and Chip) to winch her up!! (Pat tended the line!)

Deck scupper project starboard side - 2016

Beginning of February 2016 - Anchored in Barra de Navidad lagoon, Mexico

Debbie going for a look to see where we are going to put the

scupper on deck...what's under the deck?

Sailing from Santiago to Barra-Bahia de Navidad passage - ship aground! - 2016

Middle of January 2016 - Anchored in Barra-Bahia de Navidad, Mexico

In Santiago I dove the bottom and cleaned it real nice. We were missing our prop cone zinc! There were marks on the skeg where it looked like a net could have been dragged by it.