Most of yesterday morning was spent cleaning the filth from the boat. A steady layer of soot had descended onto the boat while we were in Balboa Yacht Club and as hard as we tried our feet would bring in dirt from the shore each time we arrived. Helen and John cleaned the outside of the boat while I tidied up the navigation area.
Early on we moved the boat to reduce some of the chop we were in and see if we could find a better internet signal. We succeeded on the former but no success on the latter.
I also spent some time trying to position my Iomega TV Link so that we would have less to do when watching movies/shows from digital media as well as being able to play them out to our chart plotter (for passing time while on night watch). Success was only partial as I was unable to get it to output on the chart plotter no matter what I tried. I have one or two things left to try but hopes are not high.
As we have no internet here John and I went ashore to catch up on a few things, including looking for some ideas for my TV Link. Here, we have to pay to use the dinghy dock. It turned out to be $30 for the week – minimum. We also ended up chain our dinghy to the wrong place as it had to be moved in our absence. Looked like someone took a club hammer to our lock – it survived the ordeal – then broke the link in the chain. In hindsight the area of the dock we tied to was obviously used commercially but at the time I just figured it looked good because of all the money they were making from the folks who payed up to use their dinghies.
Today we have a bits and pieces shopping day. I have a few parts to hunt down. The one item holding up our departure is our sail repair. It is supposed to be finished by now but we don’t know if it has been. Once this is done we’ll be doing our final food shopping, fill up the freezer and head of to Las Perlas.
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