With the boat back in the water, we spent four days at Isla Danzante getting everything put back where it belongs and making sure things work. Had an issue with our autopilot and some other instruments (wouldn’t turn on) and had to hand steer a whole day up to Juncalito. The next day I absolutely tore the boat apart and followed random wires everywhere that I could looking for what had to be a loose connection. We had had workers run new wiring throughout the boat so it could be anywhere… Having contorted myself like a bug in the deepest bowels of the boat I had still gotten nowhere. Went over to a neighboring boat, whom we had met during cocktails the night before on yet another boat, and he gave me some things to check. That still didn’t work so he came over and within 10 minutes had found a loose connection! Nothing that needed to be repaired, just had to be plugged back in. Ironically, I had actually shaken those connections but hadn’t really tried to push them together which was all it needed. But all by my lonesome I managed to diagnose and solve another problem! Our head sail would only unfurl a couple of feet – turned out to be a loose nut down in the bowels of the chain locker at the other end of the boat.
We spent Halloween at a beach bonfire with eight other boat crews. Everybody cooked over the fire and there were no bugs! Truly what we are looking forward to doing more of as cruisers.
We are presently back at Playa Santispac to ride out what should be a three day norther. Have a good spot and we need to do some polishing of stainless anyway. We are planning to head up to Bahia Los Angeles as soon as the weather turns. Our understanding is that “the season“ for that far up north is rapidly closing so we may not linger for too long. But want to see all the sites and then will probably head over to the mainland and start working our way south. Interestingly, the water here is 9° cooler than it was just six weeks ago.
The long critters in the pictures are ribbon worms, we think. Didn’t see any during the day but snorkeling at night they were everywhere. Between 4 and 10 feet long but apparently what you see is only 1/10 of what they can stretch out to! Very cool to find on Theresa’s first ever night snorkel!
