Pierless Adventures - March29 - Juan for the Road

Today was a mix of boat work and shopping.  On the boat side, we continue to make steady progress on the head repairs.  The new pump is installed, hoses run and we are now making the final connections.  Like most plumbing problems, you have to start at one end of the chain and piece pipe, hose and fittings together until you reach the other end.  We should have it done by Thursday.

On the very positive side, we finished the rudder repairs today.  This project was in limbo when my UPS shipment containing the necessary materials did not materialize...  We have been trying for a week now to find epoxy locally- to no avail.  Fortunately, our Argentinean neighbor Juan came to our rescue.  He has been working on his rudder and hull for a couple of weeks now and apparently bought up most of the epoxy in Mazatlan.  He was generous enough to give us what we needed to do the job, so Juan really got us back on the road.

Juan on his boat:

 

My Mexico phone ran out of data yesterday, so I had to make a trip to the mall to buy more time.  While there, I did some clothes shopping.  My work shorts did the splits when I was contorting myself plumbing the head, so I am in need of a replacement pair.  I checked several stores in the mall and have a few prospects to consider.  I also bought some items for the boat, etc.

In other boat business, I scheduled bottom painting for tomorrow (Wednesday).  This is work the boat yard folks will do.  I also scheduled our launch (splash) for Friday this week and I think I have a slip we can use for the next two weeks.  This puts us right on schedule!

We look forward to having the refrigerator working (this requires the boat to be in the water) and to the end of ladder climbing to board the boat!  Not sure how we will keep track of time if we are no longer  purchasing bags of ice...

From Scott:

The locals here have been correcting our Spanish.  Everyone knows that "buenos dias" is Spanish for "good morning."  The problem is that no one here actually says that; it's buen dia.  I thought about that for awhile and came to the realization that we learned Eddie Haskell Spanish.  You remember him- Wally Cleaver's smarmy friend from Leave it to Beaver who says things like "Good day Mrs. Cleaver.  My, don't you look pretty today."  That must be how we sound when we speak Spanish, but everyone is very friendly to us even if we talk Haskellese.  We are still confused about when buenos tardes ends and buenos noches begin.  They are happy to point out our error, but not educate us.

There is a British couple here with a precocious 6-year old named Pearl.  She marched past me with her mother two days ago singing Karma Chameleon at the top of her lungs.  Her Mom said it was going on day 3.  There's an Argentinian, several Americans and enough Canucks for a curling tournament. 

I think I might just pretend not to know English or Spanish for a while and just communicate through a series of grunts and clicks.  Let's see them correct that.