anyone  wishing to  come here, please wait until i get to guaymas and we can have a repair party. right now i am only trying to patch together this  brokenness so i can make it   to   haul and fix yard  for cheapo….

for christmas i want a running engine….lol–repair guy is in place  for this–only  problem seems to be the engine its  and its cooperativity.

 

happy holidays to everyone, i will  wish later the specific holidays…as they arrive

 

my engine is resistent to repair for now… we broke the woodruff key for the crankshaft bolt, so we find a new one and then further work ….cannot turn crank without this lil piece of metal.
we will go to melaque to find one and be back on this project in no time.
i will be in the anchorage in december….looking forward to the   daily  breezes…

 

 

 

update….  

we  found the   key thingies in melaque.   we will look for the head gasket when we take head to  machinists.

we have still engine parts to find today, and  then i    need to  leave marina for   lagoon..is happier on anchor.

banda anchqa  works…

wifi doesnt    work, despite being delivered allegedly to boats in amrina from    wannabe 5 star posher than   most places hotel.. i figger if they cannot  reliably deliver   wifi to  the locations they promise   to deliver it, that they are not 5 stars..the wifi is 1 star wifi.   i still cannot figger how th edesk guy  gets     such good results and the  tech  guy cannot make the system work.   hhmmmmmm

 

today we hunt   tiny parts for engine–we need the   small   rubber   gaskets/washers fro the   fuel line fittings that    fit to the  injector pump and    injectors…. this could be an interesting day.  we will be   going anywhere from 6 miles to 70 miles from   barra on bus… 70 miles is a sure thing–pump  rebuilder!!   so we will work out way there, and if find parts before  70 miles, awesome. if not…ok….we go back to  pump rebuild guy,  as  he has em.

 

pix of engine  colors coming soon….lol     artist putting   specialized   stuffies on it.   heeheehee

what a little routine maintenance will do as far as keeping things cheep..lol….
fixed air conditioner in 30 mins..not too shabby. runs great now, and is dry.
bubba is happy. he dislikes humid and hot. funny thing about that and his fuurrzzz…he whined and bit me until i fixed it…now he sleeps in best cool breeze in boat….smart cat.
and we can put off the purchase of nother air conditioner for another season or two….

means time in a marina with minimal amenities and reasonable summer pricing.

there is no , repeat NO wifi to boats. none zero. get your own banda ancha, and that may not work, for your 500 pesos monthly to telcel or your favorite carrier. .

no calling mom or other family members via skype.

no contacting your bank for important things or other business.
arrange own propane delivery or car pool with someone owning a vehicle here.
arrange own drinking water delivery.
uhoh make a regulator for the dock water so you dont blow hoses out … the water pressure is awesome high.
it is gorgeous here and a decent furycame hole.

do not expect on board wifi as is offered in the other marinas i have found in mexico. it is not merely not offered, it is denied. it used to be provided by the hotel, however, that change was made this summer. very interesting.

if there are any positive changes i will advise.

seems the name of the tech guy at hotel who is supposed to be repairing this intermittently delivered alleged amenity has name of carlos.
funny how only one desk guy has been able to fix the problem yet the tech guy is not able to so do…and now there is a key to the room in which modem is locked. hhmmmmm

winter rates here are, for a 40 ft   boat,  14000 pesos monthly.  peso is  12.9 to one usdollar.  fluctuations  will be noticed with fluctuation of  us dollar. NO   ON BOARD WIFI.

in summer the rate   has been 4100ish to 44 00¡ish pesos  monthly.

in winter this rate  rises to 14000pesos per month fro a small boat like mine,  itis  hard to   rationalize  no on board wifi for that fee.

and….my  bank card was  en route here.   conciergess  knew this.   she was aware of my   full name, so she didnt have the excuse   for  doing   what she did….

my  fed ex package was sent to me in a timely fashion.   everything was going ok until it got to colima.

seems it went to   water taxi dock insteadof to   desk.    man signed.   before i went to find this ,   2 days and half had passed   from time of delivery until i found this fact.  the man who signed for it   had called her multiple times with my name an d the package   was here.   i had  called  multiple times    speaking with her and she denied its existence. i spoke  decent spanish with her as i know  she  fakes her english. she wentinto machine     th e concierge named  isaias  was working with me, and  she    made a   sound when she saw the name of the signatory. she immediately disappeared and came back all smiley happy with my package.   i had already  cancelled my card and she knew it.  she caused outflow  of another  150 usd for delivery of a second card, and  was   screwing with my   ability to   obtain my own money  while here in mexico. i had just called the desk and  spoken with her about it. then i showed up in   lobby

i reported her actions, as i didnt know what else to do .

seems she was also refusing to advise   carlos about need to reset wifi and the need for  maintenance on it.   womans boss    made wifi work.   he also assured me i willno longer have a problem.

we are under the meeting of the two…..

from pump rebuilder—-all 3 bits we took in for rebuilding are finished–they only took one day–must be bored this season…..heat exchanger for transmission, injector pump for full rebuild, and lift pump for bolt removal and mebbe a a diaphragm for that item…..less than 3000 pesos…
now i was advised my injector pump would break me for price to rebuild—what does it cost in overpriced sin diego—over 1000usd???? …. i know someone from a reasonably priced locale quoted me 800 usd for a partial rebuild–lol….
we so rock.
thankyou so much my guardian angels for allowing me to break down in a lovely location with excellent pump repair souls who work for much less money than in usa.
god loves mexico

and so he found agua salina deep inside my injector pump, which as i recall was an add on before i was sent the engine—origin unknown — so i dont know its history–but while i had this engine so far, no sea water has come into engine. the injector pump is only place this happened.
what the innards of the pump looked like was ugly black goopy sandy mess… lots of grit.
the sea water was yellow and very old…..so i was fortunate it lasted this long–about 3000 miles–while translates into engine hours by multiplying that number by 3 kts- getting 9000 hours??? more time than i thought….but was only just under 3000 miles, so far–so we have been very very fortunate.
now the engine i properly aligned, finally, and the efficiency of the engine room has been addressed, extraneous wiring removed–finally, and we just await the trip to fetch back the parts and reinstall em….
the different parts are being painted different colors–lowest into darkness are painted light colors with some neon orange to perk up the mayhem…pix will come after the painting and reassembly are completed….
it will be gooooood to regain mobility.