We had s\v Elegant'sea washed, waxed and buffed - 2019

We took s\v Elegant'sea into the Marina Puerto de la Navidad (Barra Marina) for three days.

We had the boat washed, waxed and buffed for 4000 pesos. Which is a lot lees than in Puerto Vallarta. From and including the boom to the water line and everything in between about $210.00 USD.

Custom salon hatch deck shade made - 2019

 Debbie is cutting some shade screen that we purchased. We purchased the gray shade screen at Costco in Puerto Vallarta. These two pieces she is making will go under the boom for over our two big 20x20 salon hatches there.

New Ocean Kayak Malibu Two handles installed - 2019

 New line that came with the handles.

Rebuilding our forward Oceanair Surface Skyscreen - 2019

 Debbie is going to put new handles on our forward Oceanair Roller Blinds Skyscreen. 

Also, rewind the blind and screen after cleaning them. Model # SfSS - 1080 18 1\2 x 18 1\2 Beige with no PVC liner.

Chamela for a couple of days...then off to Barra- 2019

Jean and Jacinthe on s/v Arcane...came down to Mexico with us on 2012 Baja Ha Ha

I am on the paddleboard talking to Jean.

Passage around Cape from PV to Chamela Bay (Perula)- 2019

No wind to speak of. Waves were probably 4 feet and a bit mixed. After we rounded the cape the current kicked in and we lost at least a knot but had following seas then. After about 4 hours past the Cape the seas started to flatten out a bit and still about 4 feet. 

PredictWind was the closest of the weather forecasts and it was still a little kind.

Rounding the Cape, weather - 2019

 We are going to wait one more day as the weather looks better for a night and day passage from  Puerto Vallarta to Punta Perula Bay - Chamela . Each night we were going to leave only to find the weather the next night looks better. So Wednesday night we will leave rounding Cabo Corrientes (Cape of Currents) at 4:00 am on Thursday and sailing all day Thursday. It's looking good to us! Now we have a High Pressure system so it should calm things down😎

Rounding the Cape - 2019

Ok we are ready to sail! Toys stashed and preventers out etc! We should be rounding "Cape of Currents" (Cabo Corrientes) about 4:00 am on Wednesday. We will leaving the dock at 9:00pm Tuesday for an overnighter to Chamela. It will be good to be at sea again!

Washed the decks with FSR - 2019

Washed the decks with FSR while we have all this nice fresh water! Leaving tomorrow night to round Cabo Corrientes (Cape of Currents) to Punta Perula Bay - Chamela.

Did some bilge\engine, cleaning\painting - 2019

 

While evaluating the bilge pumps I decided to give the bilge a good cleaning and do some rust removal and prevention on a couple of places on the Beta. Then a fresh coat of Brightside bilge paint - Interlux. 

Cockpit dome light almost done - 2019

  Yes, we are creating and installing a cockpit dome light. 

We got tired of the portable one so we purchased some LED water proof lights.

Rule 2000 bilge pump leaking? - 2019

 Our Rule 2000 bilge pump seems to be leaking at the base. You can see a steady stream of water shooting out. It is still pumping water out of the boat, though.

Took s\v Elelgant'sea out for a "shake down" - 2019

 Took s\v Elegant'sea out for a "shake down" sail, motor
 and drop anchor testing. All did well with only a few issues.

 One batten is rubbing the backstay. We will need to retuck it in or trim it shorter.

 Our new throttle cable will not hold its position and so it will need to be looked at.

 Our 3\8" anchor chain could use to be remarked.
 A bilge pump is acting up.

So all in all we are ready to sail south!

Mermaid 12000 btu HVAC and EasyStart 364 power strip failure - 2019

The idea was to use the power stripe to power a 110v fan by the power strip which was turned on by the Mermaid Marine Air electrical box. This proved to be a bad idea. Some months later the power strip stopped working and so did the salt water (March LC-3CP-MD pump ) the extra fan and the compressor on the HVAC.

Labeled and secured up our wiring for the VesperXB-8000 AIS - 2019

Debbie is the label hand model😍

We will be going on a shakedown cruise in a couple  

days so we are getting things ship-shape😁

We are waiting for weather to sail south!

ICOM 802 position GPS antenna by DYS - 2019

 Because we are having some problems sending position data from our new Garmin GPSMAP 942 chart plotter to our ICOM 802 SSB radio we are considering purchasing this gps antenna for the purpose of position data. We had this all working on our old Garmin GPSMAP 740 chartplotter on NMEA 0183 network. 

Got to have the right tool for the job - Debbie in lazarett for Vesper XB-8000 smartAIS install - 2019

Yes back again. That is, Debbie is back down in the lazzeretti this time working on our WatchMate XB-8000smartAIS Transponder with WiFi and NMEA 2000 Gateway. I can fit in there but all scrunched up but Debbie has some room to spare😀  Also Debbie is putting the fuses in so our solar panels can go live. We do that in the dark so no live panels.