Paradise Village Marina sounds like a great place to be doesn't it?
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Paradise Village Marina - Can you spot our BFF Hydroquest??
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Paradise Village looks like Mayan pyramids emerging from the jungle!
Well not for us! Being in a marina for us means money is being spent ... rapidly, and perhaps most importantly we can't go surfing with the same ease or frequency.
When we find ourselves in a Marina, it is usually because we have work to do which requires us to be still, as opposed to bouncing around at anchor. That was the case for our last 4 days in "Paradise", which was filled with 12+ hour days of boat projects.
The project list included:
- Reinforce the goose neck track
- Repair the sail out haul
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Who would have thought repairing something which is enclosed inside of a 15 foot
aluminum pole would be so difficult??
- Clean/inspect the standing rigging
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Everyone loves to see why someone is going up the mast.
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And have a lot of questions about the gear being used.
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Starship from the mast head
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Anne-Marie volunteered for the tough job of cleaning the back stay!
- Wash all running rigging
- Wash the boat
- Wash our snorkeling gear
- Fill the water tanks
- Calibrate windvane
- "Spinout" the standing rigging
- Provisioning trip to Costco
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The gang heads to Costco on a mission
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Where are we going to put all this!!?!?!?
How does one manage to get 12 giant paper towel rolls, 80 toilet paper rolls and 12 boxes of Kleenex into a 36 foot sailboat you may ask?? Well it is quite easy with our revolutionary new, space age vacuum packing system!
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Observe the tremendous space savings!
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Simply pack contents into a Ziploc bag, apply compression forces,
and vacuum out the air, in this case via a straw.
Most days we would be done our work just in time to head over to the hot tub before it closed at 10PM.
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Mandatory 30 minute beach break
Luckily we have found the true paradise again! ... as long as you consider paradise working like crazy and then surfing.
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Punta de Mita here we come!
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Paradise indeed!
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I couldn't say it better myself! We're back!
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Sounds like you are making good use of your engineering degrees!
ReplyDeleteHmmmmm....what is a goose neck track and the sail out haul???
ReplyDeleteGreat blog Chris and by the sounds of it you guys are super close
to start the "puddle jump".