Well, looks like it will be 8 days...largely thanks to some wisdom Tom picked up from his son, Hans. Hans gave a talk at a marine surveyors meeting and told everyone "the glass bowl in your fuel filter is the window to your future".
Turns out our window had the shades pulled with diesel CRUD. Tom checked the fuel tank only to find the entire bottom of the tank was growing crud. Luckily, the next morning we found Jose and his son, Diego, in their truck clearly marked "Fuel Polishing". They came by on Sunday morning and pulled 2.5 gallons of CRUD off the bottom of the tank...
The sun never sets for cool people!
Now that's some Crud! Our Window is looking so much brighter, now.
Well, that was until Tom calls me to come look at something. Seriously, both hose clamps on the port cockpit thruhull were completed rusted through. That would have been a nightmare to fix underway! Oh, and then he found the starboard clamps were also broken and the thruhull required a contortionist to get to. Oh, all those years Tom crawled through engines paid off!
But there was good news too. Begone was launched beautifully on one of 3 days in March when tide was high enough to float her..
The drive down the main road in San Carlos from the Marina Seca to splash at
the Marina San Carlos.
Tom up the rig (Suzanne cranked him up - and left him there to get the camera!)
Jesus and his associate did a beautiful job tuning Begone's rig.
And Jesus later came and climbed the mast to replace the spinnaker turning block
(he pulled himself up - Suzanne was pleased!)
We had to enjoy a Corona moment here in San Carlos.
And now Begone is ready to set sail tomorrow (Thursday, 3/26/15) sometime around noon.
First destination: Puerto Escondido
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