I suggested a limonada and float out at the beach at El Tesoro!
The water was the absolute perfect temperature - not too hot and enough to cool you off!
I think the high tide had something to do with it.On a low tide the water gets very shallow and can get too warm to be refreshing.
Then we saw the afternoon thunderheads building...
Time to head back, as both boats had all the hatches open!But first a
While Wayne discussed bottom paint with Abel, Carol, Jim and I watched some incredible lightning strikes!
And pet the two boatyard dogs, who were actually pretty clean and appeared to be "tick-less".
Amazing...
5 gallons of extremly heavy bottom paint (and a whole pile of pesos later) were put into the back of my car by a very large and strong boatyard worker.
Lowrider...
And a stop at Costa Baja for a visit with Dave and Kellie!
Then back to the boats, where Jim and Wayne loaded the paint into a dockcart.
Jim had to walk to the store for cerveza so Wayne was on his own with the paint...
I haven't heard from Wayne, so I am assuming they got the paint onto their boat somehow...
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Bottom paint: Wee Fun!
I remember sailboat maintenance being pretty much a never ending battle back in Seward. I'm assuming it's the same in the tropics?
It is never ending... stuff grows like crazy in the tropics - you have to have your bottom (bottoms in the case of a cat) cleaned often or have new paint. We need to haul soon too, but it is SOOO expensive and we all know I hate hanging in the boatyard...
Haul outs are no fun at all, blech. We used to dive (with dry suits) to give the bottom a good scrub and also replace the zincs. That way we didn't have to haul out as often. But, unfortunately, ya gotta haul out when it's time to bottom paint.
Maybe it's too long ago for you to remember, but was there a 72' ferro ketch at Bercovich's yard, maybe being used as a liveaboard?
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