And So This is Cruising...well, sort of

We've been enjoying LaPaz for a week. Slowly settling into the cruising lifestyle in this delightful, Mexican town. We've walked the Malecon, watched the Carnival parade and festivities for the Children's Celebration.
GunRock, our dinghy is ready to picked up after a repair (a tiny trickle of a leak where the tubes attach to the transom); the raw water pump was repaired at a local machine shop and is now a spare again; and a few other jobs were done.

And we began to slowly prepare ourselves for the 400 nautical mile trip to Puerto Vallarta. This morning, I headed out to provision (walk a mile and then carry bags and pull a full cart back) while Alan checked over the engines. Oh yeah. And so this is the cruising part of the blog. Besides the other fluids, he happened to check the oil level in the transmissions, finding seawater in the oil in the starboard side tranny. Now, those 2 are never to meet! So this is something we'd like to ignore but only at our own peril.

So we have made all sorts of new friends today: mechanics, boat yard managers, and the local yacht dealer as our "go to" guy for help.

We plan on hauling out on Wednesday and the mechanic will drop the saildrives and do an inspection. We may actually have the spare parts but then again, we may we ordering from Portland, shipping to San Diego, getting someone to walk it across to Tijuana, and putting them on a bus, to arrive in La Paz some 30 hours later.

Maybe we are going soon to PV, or maybe we are going later. But go we will. It is just part of cruising. But we aren't laughing about our new discovery yet.