Back On The Hard.

24.15N 110.3W. Marina Atalanta Astilleros, La Paz, BCS, Mexico.

We arrived to La Paz late Wednesday, 19 November 2008, after an extra twelve hour layover at the LA Airport this day….following our aborted attempts to fly anywhere out of the Redding Airport throughout the day on Monday. All delays due to mechanical problems….requiring replacement planes to fly in to our airport from some other airport after long delays. In spite of the lengthy delays, it still beat a long multiple day road trip from the Northern California to Southern BCS.

So…here we are. Our first night back on Gitano – in spite of the fact of being on the hard – was very restful and peaceful. zzzzzzzzz

We have just a few projects before launching back in the water. The worst is a bottom job. The job entails sanding the most superficial of the old paint and growth off, scrubbing off a bit more and then painting the bottom with the most toxic, fowl bottom paint we can still find on the market. (The best paint has been outlawed and mariners in this part of the world now find themselves in a constant search for something that works better than the almost better-than-nothing bottom paint that we often find on the bottom of our boats…hosting the masses of barnacles and sea grass that we had been hoping to kill off instead.)

Our work is done in three days and we prepare to launch back to the water.

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Nov2008 La Paz