Author: Scott
We woke up early again, but today we could have easily slept in, the last few days of preparation for the trip north must be catching up with us. First thing for me was to clean up my mess from painting the anchor chain and stow the newly painted chain back into the chain locker on the boat, and Pam started out working on food for the voyage. As I started to feed the chain onto the boat, the momentum of the chain caused the excess chain to start to feed off the dock and into the water. I figured that this would be okay because now I could see how well the paint showed up on the chain when it was wet. I asked Pam to come out and help feed the chain over the bow roller and as we pulled the chain up from the marina bottom we soon realized that the entire chain was covered in thick black mud, gross! With the chain coated in this thick black syrup there was no way I could see the new paint or allow the chain back on the boat, so we had to hand pull the chain back onto the dock and spray it down with the hose. As I worked to pull up the chain I kept thinking about the many ingredients that comprised this awful mud despite my best effort to think about other things, I knew that crocodile poop must be high on the list, ewe! On the second attempt to stow the anchor all went well and the paint looked great. I continued to prepare the boat while Pam finished up her food preparation chores. When the boat was ready we packed up our shower gear and headed to the marina bathrooms for our final land shower until we reach PV. After showering we met Abe and Amy for final lemonade. None of us had too much to say, for me it was strange to think that we would finally be saying so long to these great friends we met on our adventure. We knew that sooner or later we would be heading our separate ways, but here we were actually preparing to move on and not just for a few days when we would meet up at another anchorage. We stopped by Eleytheria and took a few photos and then jumped in their dink and headed over to Tournesol. The plan was for Amy to follow in the dinghy while Abe guided us onboard Tournesol. We gave Amy a big hug and headed out of the marina. Our departure from the dock went smoothly and conditions were fairly calm out the main channel into the Bay. We gave Abe a final hug and sent him over the side to join Amy in the dinghy. As we headed out Abe called out to us “hey the good guys ended as the final champs in Spades”. We watched them motor back into the marina and then we turned to face the open sea.
The rest of the day went well with calm seas and light wind on our nose. We actually made decent progress despite our concerns for monotonous bashing to weather. We feasted on Pam’s premade spaghetti and settled into our trek up to Tenacatita, our planned stop on the way to Puerto Vallarta.
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