Tied to the dock....
Coolrunnins
Sat 10 Jul 2010 05:54
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Hello All,
Arrived Wednesday noonish in La Cruz, after
78 hour jaunt, very little sleep but good sailing conditions most of the
way and all safe and sound.
Chava our Mexican "Captain" (note the judicious use
of inverted comas) left us the following morning as he had to answer bail in La
Paz. Joking apart aside from his awful sense of direction he was actually
a really good guy and a pleasure to have onboard. He also managed to land
more fish in 72 hours than we have done in the last 3 years and the boys chatted
all day to him about fishing.
La Cruz marina is absolutely superb to the point of
fresh flowers in the toilets every morning all for $18.00 a night!!! The boys
drive around the Marina in the dinghy all day fishing or bringing a
constant stream of dead fish from the nearby fish market to use as bait or
trying to persuade us to cook it for them!!! They constantly
deliver various wildlife to the boat including puffer fish and "sea
horses".
We have been resting, reorganising, fixing some
broken stuff which includes a partial computer failure, which unfortunately
resulted in us not being able to update our position until now. Our big
thanks to Fernando who worked through the night back in Playa to fix the
problem.
La Cruz is a good 40 minutes out of Pto. Vallarta
and it is a very nice frendly and clean fishing village, but we are yet to see
much of Pto. Vallarta. Plan is to check it out next couple of days and
then prepare to head south again after fixing GPS, batteries, shackles,
transmission cable, air conditioning, sail cover and let's not forget Sol taking
out the toilet seat as the cat fell off a wave on our first rough night.
Apart from that not much to do really...
Thanks for all your thoughts, calls, support and
emails....
Captain Blye
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