hola!

Here we are in sunny (*really* sunny) San Carlos, Mexico. It's 180 degrees in the shade. We're sitting inside the gringo bar Club de Capitanes finishing up some brilliant ceviche and I don't know how many Negro Modelos.

We spent the morning helping the current owner rig the boat and get it ready for sea trial and survey. Which meant putting on some sails and running the engine up to temperature.

After that we spent the morning photographing everything above decks. Every thing. E-v-e-r-y. Thing. If we ever offer to show pictures of our time in San Carlos: run away. The slideshow will consist 1700 photos of turnbuckles and blocks. Party!

Tomorrow, we meet the surveyor and then head over to Marina Real where the boat is at now. We'll do the sea trial on our way to moving the boat over to Marina San Carlos where we'll haul out and finish the survey. From there, if all things go well, we'll haul the boat over to dry storage and start the Herculean task of prepping the boat for a week of 60 mph winds and Mexican roads and ill-tempered crane operators and blowing dirt and monsoons and kamikaze insects and ninjas. I'm not sure about that last one but the boy scouts said I should always be prepared so we're not taking any chances.

As always, we'll keep you updated.