This week has been very productive for us. We are happy campers. The boat was pulled out on Monday as planned and scraped, power washed and painted. Then our job was done for a few days. They began fiber glassing inside the boat on Wednesday. Don climbed up on the boat yesterday afternoon and he said it was really looking nice.
Don and I went to San Juan to take care of a few things. We dropped our dinghy off AGAIN! This time they will bring it back to us after they make sure it is fixed this time. We also took our “motor” from our windlass into a place that had been recommended to us by some people here at the Marina. We spent the night in San Juan on the ocean. We enjoyed a great dinner on the water. The next morning the guy that worked on our motor called to say it was ready. It cost $75.00 which we were so happy about. A new windlass motor could have cost us up to $3,000.00.
After we picked up the motor we headed for Salinas. The picture above is a picture of the Marina in Salinas. This is where we will go when we are finished here in Puerto Real. We spent Wednesday and Thursday night at the lodge in the Marina. I hung out at the pool and did our laundry while Don went to see the guy that will be helping us on our stainless steel bimini and dodger frame. I went to visit with the lady that will be making the covers for the same. Left with her some screen and scraps to make us some new screens for the boat. She also looked at the material that we brought with us from Texas to have the Bimini and dodger done. She said it was very nice and would work great. It is called sunbrella supreme. The material is lined with tan and the top is black. She had never seen it before. Don met another guy who can weld anything and everything you can think of. He went back to San Juan with Don on Thursday to take him to all the metal places. Don got just what he wanted to make the tabernacle for the mast and Friday morning they made it. Don said this guy was unbelievably talented and they got along perfectly. They knew exactly what each other wanted to do and what to do next. This makes a big difference when you are working together. And it doesn’t come along too often.
Today is Saturday and we are a little bored. It is a beautiful day, but nothing to do. Since we have been gone most of the week we really aren’t in the mood to go site seeing. So we are up at the marina looking at the West Marine catalog. We are going over our list of things that we need to get. We have received all of our shipments thus far and in record time.
Don and Janis
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