We have been here a week. The first few days were a blur while we adjusted
to being back at the boat. There were a couple of other boaters in the yard
that we knew when we arrived, but in the days since we have got to know just
about everybody here. New people are arriving at their boats daily, and everone
goes out for tacos at the roadside taco stand up the road in the evening.
Everyone is getting ready to put their boats in the water and we are all
heading the same in the same direction. Once we sail out we will probably bump
into people we have met here in anchorages all the way down the Baja.
Kai and Liam are both doing well with their home schooling. They
both got into the routine almost immediately. Their days are spent doing their
school work, skate boarding, and making meals. They get their own breakfasts,
their own lunches, and since we have been here they have taken turns making
dinner. And every now and then they help with with boat jobs. Four days of work
and we now have a working windlass once again. That was my job and it took all
my time, as well as help from half a dozen other boaters over the last few days.
Not sure what I would have done without the help of the community here.
Liam sanded the prop on his birthday, and Kai scraped the
hull. Tonight Kai is making dinner, and tomorrow they will wash the boat down. At
the end of the day the boat will get put in the water, and we will be a
floating boat once again. Then everything changes again.
And for the record, the ungodly hour that Kai and Liam are
forced to get up is asfter the morning cruisers’ net at 8:30. And the “big tip”
I gave the taxi driver amounted to $1.50 Canadian…
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