Author: Scott
We were up early this morning to continue the food inventory and organizing project we started yesterday. We spent a good part of the day pulling out all of the food on board and making a spreadsheet, we had lost track of what we have and need to figure out what we need and want before leaving for the South Pacific. We had left everything all over the boat yesterday when we left to meet Abe to make the phone call to Dr. Ortiz. We got it all put away again and are now ready to plan our provisioning needs before we go to San Francisco, there are many things not available here in Mexico. Just after finishing this task around 10:00 we heard the first May Day of our trip. A woman’s voice came over the VHF with a lot of static pleading for help; her husband was in the water and being swept by the current to the reef near shore. Instantly, members of the local cruisers group jumped into action. They were anchored out at Isle Grande about nine miles from Zihuatenejo and she had thrown him a floatation device. She was trying to reach Marina Ixtapa hoping they could contact a water taxi in the area to rescue her husband. The Port Captain was contacted, he apparently has a fast boat in his fleet, but he said it would be faster for someone local to reach him. Amy answered the call and Abe was the one to run up to the office at the Marina. A 70 foot power boat also answered the call and was headed out to the rescue from the Marina. We were sitting on the boat listening and holding our breath. This is one of everyone’s biggest fears that you or someone you are with will be swept away from your boat. His wife finally waved down a local panga and he was safely rescued. Later in the day we learned, he had gone out to dump the coffee grounds overboard, dropped the coffee pot and had jumped in after it without assessing the conditions. It was a good lesson reminder that though the water may be beautiful and warm, its power should never be ignored or under estimated. While this excitement was going on Gary from Pegasus was busily scraping the sea life and hairballs off of the bottom of the boat and prop. It is amazing how quickly and what grows on your boat in these warm waters. However, he reported our bottom paint looked better than most he had seen lately, that was good news to hear. After Gary finished cleaning the bottom we prepared the boat to move back over to Marina Ixtapa to get ready for the trip back to PV. It was an easy trip over to Ixtapa and once again we were met by Abe and Amy at the entrance of the Marina. It got a little exciting entering the marina, we felt like Moon Dogy shooting the curl into the Waikiki beach, with breakers pushing us through the marina channel. Even though we were right in the middle of the channel with room for error, it is disconcerting to feel the stern lift up and see the bow slope downhill as the waves toss you forward into the marina, cowabunga dude!!!
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