Ready,set, oh wait a minute

We completed provisioning at Walmart of all places, I hate Walmart but honestly it was very well stocked and surprisingly cheap.
Today I replenished the water, easy you may say, just drop in the hose and done, but this being Mexico it's not quite that simple, despite the advertised potable water at the marina nobody will drink it, in fact I was told again in no uncertain terms that if you drink the water it will "fxxx you up", that`s a loose transliteration from spanish.
So Heather and I dragged our water jugs into town about a quarter mile to the place that sells purified water to try to rent some water jugs, but they won't rent them so we bought 2 and filled them up, I then made 5 roundtrips between there and Grace before we had the tanks full, we carry about 260 liters, we can't use the watermaker in the harbour as the water is polluted so we were getting pretty low.

So the engine seems to be running very well, it sounds like a new engine compared to before, and in a sense it is a new engine, with the engine out of the way I was able to take care of some other issues at theat end of the boat, such as the shaft packing and the shaft log, which was a little loose.

 So we are ready to set off once more but now there is a weather issue. A strong Norther is blowing down the Sea at 30 plus knots which means we would be bashing into a steep sea for about 80 miles once we round Cabo Pulmo, so we are going to wait for this to die down before we sail for La Paz, we may leave tommorow anyway and go to San Jose Del Cabo, only about 20 miles and probably a good reentry.

Liam, believe it or not,likes school, at least that is what he said today, the Montesorri approach seems to work with him, so when  we get to La Paz we will probably find another school for him.

We spend the day ( yestersday ) with Hans and Kathleen at their condo about 5k east of here, it was nice to see some familiar faces, and to see Hans without his hat, Liam loved Kathleen, in fact we were thinking about kidnapping her and bringing her along to play with Liam.

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