Barra de Navidad to Puerto Vallarta Passage (Chamela Bay to PV slog) - 2019

 Sailing about 5-10 nm outside of Chamela Bay (town - Punta Perula) and about 5 nm North of it, we heard our Whale Gulper IC Diaphragm Bilge Pump start pumping. Holy cow! what can that be from???😜 After a look at the shaft, rudder post, etc. we found the leak. 
It was our Jabsco raw water pump! 

June 2019 -We are currently in Paradise Village Marina in Banderas Bay Mexico (by Puerto Vallarta)

This Jabsco raw water pump 29460-1701 4310 was leaking but our Beta 38 hp engine was still not overheating. We were not sure how to proceed because we were looking at a 63 nm passage overnight to be off Cabo Corrientes (Cape of Currents) and another 28 nm mile run to Paradise Village Marina so a total of 91 nm. We decided to head into Chamela Bay and anchor for the night and decide what to do.

 We were emailing with our friends Ronnie and Tony (in their hayday known as "The Tea Lady" and "Teapot Tony" of Banderas Bay) and happened to mention our engine issue. Tony suggested we use the air conditioner pump as a replacement pump for the engine. Our question to Tony was "will a March pump, pumping 8 gallons a minute be enough or too much...or just right? We have a Beta Marine 38 hp engine." His reply was "It should be fine. But if your engine starts to overheat, slow down until it holds a normal temp, and then just continue at that speed.  With an engine driven pump water flow increases in volume as the revs rise, but this electric driven pump is going to pump a constant volume of water no matter what engine speed so just keep an eye on your temp gauge and adjust yr RPM accordingly."

 We later talked with him about the possibility of flooding the engine with too high a flow and he said that can be controlled by the thru-hull valve."

 We then called Beta Marine in North Carolina - tech support said that our raw water pump is still usable as long as the engine is not overheating.  Keep an eye on the temperature and use with caution.

 Not to put the Beta Marine 38 hp motor (with our leaking Jabsco raw water pump 29460-1701 4310 that was leaking) to any unneeded use, we sailed off anchor and then out of Chamela Bay. Then out to sea on a backwards tack as the wind only permitted that way of tacking. Damn!

 Note: We have found that our Jabsco 29460-1701 Engine Cooling Pump, 3/4" ID Hose Inlet x 3/4" ID Hose Outlet pump is no longer made. We have found some still left for sale though and will also contact Beta Marine to see if there is a recommended replacement..

 Most discouraging to be going 15 nm out to sea at 5 knots so for three hours to get room to go tack forward. All a waste of three hours and hard sailing. Then sail somewhat forward direction for say 15 nm only to do it again and again and be happy not to lose any forward direction when tacking back out to see....??
The British say "Gentlemen do not sail to windward" and I can definitely see why.
Or:
 From YDW.com
"Battering to windward is all very well racing round the cans, but when cruising out at sea in any nasty wind/sea/tidal conditions, the rewarding aspect of driving starts to lose its appeal. Cooking ,sleeping and using the heads becomes a trial of endurance, cracking off a few degrees if you have the sea room makes life so much more bearable and also bear in mind many cruising couples like me/us are at an age where we don't need to prove anything to anyone."

This is a picture of our Garmin GPSMAP 740 chartplotter so you can see our tacking. The dotted line is our tacking. At the end is where we said enough after tacking all day and into the night. We called it quits and started the motor and went onto the route.

One of the nicer things about being at sea is the beautiful sunsets and sunrises. Here is one that made our windward passage more tolerable.

You can see the black dot and the lines going across the screen. Yes our Garmin GPSMAP 740 chartplotter is nearing its end. We purchased the Navionic app for our new Samsung tablets but we failed to download the maps because it got too complicated😏 oops. This was for backup.

  Our Garmin GPSMAP 740 chartplotter went dead on us so Debbie improvised. 

 Debbie had used the guidebooks for the Paradise Village Marina entry so we had the nautical location for the Nuevo Vallarta channel - 20 degrees 41.216'N, 105 degrees 17.861' W
 So she used the paper charts we have and the handheld GPS we have to get a compass bearing. That was 50 degrees magnetic. She plugged in the location into our handheld GPS and we were set to get home.😎 Thank you Debbie. 
 We could also get our nautical location data from our StandardHorizon Matrix GX 2150 VHF radio and current speed in knots.
 After our grueling passage we were finishing off the last eight hours of the Chamela Bay to Cabo Corrientes (Cape of Currents) to Puerto Vallarta passage. The seas had calmed after rounding the Cape and then picked up some for the afternoon blow in Banderas Bay but still not near as bad as they were rounding the Cape. Our Beta engine with the leaking Jabsco raw water pump did not get too much worse, YAY! So you know that is a spare we are definitely purchasing!