Images for Random Leg Wednesday

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Wings getting new bottom paint

DHL Careful shipping
This is the box our new main (and the damaged one) arrived in after a few trips around the world.

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The new MXL Carbon main from China Sail Factory, beautiful but BIG

Comparison
I fixed the damaged one and here is a comparison of them. Both look good.


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Jockying for the start

Wings and Sirocco

Wings reaching, weight to leeward.
This is NOT a big breeze day like we describe in the story


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John and some crew


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Repairing the J3 with Mike and Judy

Sewing through the night

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Mexorc boats

Wheel Art

Vincitore

Pyewacket

The overall winner of the race from San Diego to Puerto Vallarta was Roy Disney's Pyewacket, Andrews 70

Pyewacket Black Wheels

Pyewacket, big instruments

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Burned Battery Pack
Pyewacket's Lithium batteries overheated and caught fire. Some heroic crew member braved the clouds of dense and acrid smoke to go in and cut the cables so they boxes could be pulled out. Scary.

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Bad Pack, a nice looking new boat


Dock Line
High tech poly propylene dock line (also used as water ski rope). Funny that they use this, but I guess it is light weight.

Torlon

Racing Season Starts

Most of these photos were given to us by Jorge, Captain of Alarife, one of our competitors. One of his friends took the photos, sorry I don't have better photo credits for them.

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Racing on Banderas Bay

Wings and Alarife, Before the start

Downwind Start

Crowd

Quiet Sailing

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In the Lead

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About to Round

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Finishing Fast

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Some Crew

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More Crew

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The New Main
This sail has been a year in the works since the previous main failed (under warranty) last March. China Sail Factory agreed to replace it but that agreement however took a couple of months to work out and then the completion of this sail was delayed for a few months, until late November, for other reasons. Finally it was shipped to the wrong country instead of here to us in Mexico and that mess took two more months to sort out. Total, one year. Well now we have it and we're glad. It is designed exactly to my specifications and it is a really nice sail.

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Full Moon in the Marina

December Round-up

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Bad Bad Birds

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Birds on the Mast

These are bad, bad birds. They like to land on our mast.

Bird Poo
This is what they leave on our water-caching awning. It is not what you want in your water tank.

Birds on a wire

Before they came to the marina, they come to the wires over the parking lot. Then they fly out to our boat.



We know how to get rid of them. Watch this. (OK, The video is not easy to see, but to get rid of the birds you smack the rig and they fly away.)

THERE!

They fly away. Do that about three times a day and in a few days they learn not to land on our boat.

Fiji Water

But anyhow, maybe we'll get our water from a bottle.

San Blas Haul-out

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Jimmy and Robin join us on the beach

Jimmy and Robin, from Orcas Island, came to visit and help with the haulout. First we sailed to San Blas but we forgot to take any photos of the great sailing.

Weds Morning, the boat comes out

Boat work

San Blas

House in centro, San Blas

Billy Bob's San Blas Honkeytonk

We head off to explore the fort

Pretty old

Jimmy studies the golden head

Who was this guy?

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They take aim

The old church, from 1773

Old Church

Interesting

Look at this masonry

Back at the boat, nice paint

Is this keel out of alignment?

Job Done

Monster Spars

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We built these two spar buoys

These buoys are meant to be race marks, they will be anchored out in the bay.



They don't look like much here but in reality they are quite big. 12.5 feet from top to bottom (not including the flag pole, which is three more feet), they have 61 kilos of concrete in the bottom, and the top is filled with foam.



We call them, "Monster Spars".