prepping for our first ever real furycame on top of us.
ok. paid a friend from oz to assist, and paid a friend from mex to help him. ok
so …..
furycame carlos best be a dud. please oh please be a dud or wander off elsewhere.
has been downgraded but i still do no ttrust momma nature….

ok… stressors..

time frames and schedules–because they limit your ability to herd cats successfully, as they refuse to herd…

nothing happens to a clock.

weather does not  hie to a schedule.

there is something  telling me quite loudly–a gut feeling– that i am not to leave  here yet, despite my dire need to do so.   there is a reason i am still finding  things done  that were geared   for catastrophic  fail.  my boat speaks  to me with   frightful accuracy.

now it seems oil pan  screwloose-itis?, with bilge blackosis.   ok.  so i only cleaned it well    5 times in  past  3 years. ok i guess it is time, yet again.

as i  dislike dwelling on past   stuff, it is difficult for me to  think the   person who was here  for 6 months  befouling my boat, doing exactly opposite that which i requested be done  was  actually  really  and truly here only to    hurt me and my boat and cat.  (could be why , when i sed we leave next week, he ran like stink the flock out of dodge with my lil  smartfone, including all my contact numbers and such unimportant  stuff).

but most of that has been repaired–  i still find  things  meant to severely  impair  me and my effort  through  murder of my boat.

ok so we got it down to only  8 million stressors  remaining  in my daily life—and dammit my bilge smells like rotting diesel and rotting  bilgewater, despite rose  soap….  yummmmy…  but, why now??it never ever did this before…not even during runaway.

yeah i am on this…would love to be able to reach  far enough to be able to take a pic of underneath engine…..without dropping fone into wet nasty  bilges…

this afternoon we do  soap and dock water  wash n rinse with  a second  person and   broom as brush.

whoooohoooo…  each one means one less to  have to locate and repair…and hopefully ability to  depart sooner than …..

but only   when that  gawdawful  feeling of impending doom leaves.

i have never  had this before a passage  prior to now.  not even  when i  should have, i didnt– this is odd..

and i am still awaiting my boom,  the  epoxy and  helper n clamps to climb and fix  mast, and repacking of   stuffing boxes, shaft and rudder.

i will run the  mizzen halyard forward to redirect the   upper mast away from cockpit if the  ungodly happens. we are continuing to  get done that which is needed to fly away.  we wont fly too  far of shore nor too close in, we wont fly    with  daring and  pizzazzz, but as a death run , or  hail mary run to mazatlan for repairs that are  much needed in a limping   and   somewhat disabled boat, which we are   searching thoroughly for potential fail points an repairing before departure–is 180 miles of   no where  to  duck into on an uphill leeshore run.   whooot.

so–the first 180 miles ‘ll kill ye, then the second 120 miles to  mazatlan  from banderas bay will do ye in….no problem.

what can go wrong….

yes i still have a momma, and she only has  3 of us left, so i have to remain safe.

oops.  .

almost payday with  need to depart from here and   things yet undone.

dink on coachhouse roof,  ready to leave,  just need  filling of   water tanks and  2 more   jugs for fuel–15 gal each.   then we  WILL get to mazatlan without   TOO many issues..mebbe.  oh yeah and a few other ..insignificant  .hahaha .. things

have cat food for 1.5 months,  just need   marlin tailmeat for the spoiled cat… he will have to do without, as i am NOT catching one of those

hopefully   with me as crew will mebbe  be mechanic, and  beto.. if i can afford carlos also,  yes.. working on that…will be a pricey  trip, if i have 3 on board besides me n  bubba

still  debating whether i can  pay crew and  marina and eat and cat food, or if i have to anchor out a month in the  old harbor anchorage…..

spot is activated and ready… fone numbers have been given to  the receiving end of this adventure, and i will warn em of my departure when that happens….i dont want to  remain anchored here  long after i leave marina, as i havent the   tool at my disposal to refill tanks with tap water until i rebuild em–now is only  fro washing. i carry garafones  of water  when i travel    for drinking, which are delivered to boat.

jus tneed the remaining   things repaired and   provisioning, and out the   lagoon for  mazatlan or wherever the sea gods want to  have me go…

we still readying for departure  to mazatlan.    we have found so many  things needing repair  so badly.

i need to stabilize mizzenmast so we can motor under  jib and main..mizzen will be stabilized. i removed the heavy  stuff from mizzenhead–mount and windmill i still have   epoxying of cracked mast to effect, and clamping of it for a coupla  days..

when  i removed the windmill, i should have  taken pix of the  connections. err lack thereof. and i wondered why it didnt work after patricia– the  wires were not connected but, rather, tied into a knot. ok. and the   gasket to keep out weather was not correctly  installed,leaving big gaps in  the waterprufing. hhhmmm…… seems someone took apart the unit and failed to  make sure this was done correctly, so i think i need to    find another unit.  we will see when they are tested  once i  arrive in mazatlan.   ultimately i will   again   have 2  installed and working along with my solar generation.

found a  charger invertor   to  finish out my  electrics–i  still need to relocate the panel but i   found that grail i been seeking– and at a reasonable price. whooot.   the electrickeryman is the best in mexico, so i am in good hands.  chebio  from cihuatlan. awesome.  he is   good friends with my engine man, diaz, from joluco and manzanillo.  and they are  buddies with my  injector pump genius, javier in  casimira castillo.

the first 180 miles is the bitch in this   treck.   there is no where to duck into if there  occurs a situation we fix at sea.  i am taking with me a diver and mcguyver mexican, and i am seeking one more  to  sail  via motor  to go with. i have asked my mechanic  a she is   the  creator of this engine which has fewer than 10 hours on it to accompany, we see. not answered yet.

new year transitioned in with the  fireworks i forgot to   fotograf, as i was in bed already, and cat wasnt interested…    music until 0700 from late in dark.,   celebration  means just exactly that in mexico.  was a good way to  go to sleep.  cat  didnt wanna sleep with me, so he found a berth to enjoy solo, with eyes on me and   entry  to boat. good kitty.

we will pack the  rudder post box and  shaft stuffing box and head out into wild blue yonder of wetness.  spot works.

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donot know  when we leave–will prolly anchor a  short time as 2 weeks is  almost now..eeps.. hard to herd cats in high season, and my  electrickeryman  is on vacation until 7th…  tight, but good.