After school today Susan and Cooper went ashore with the
crew of Gypsy Wind and I worked on getting the watermaker running so that we
would have better drinking water than the San Carlos dock water in our
tanks. There were a couple of leaks so I
had to remove some parts and re-assemble until the leaks were all
addressed. Success, the watermaker is
working. My boat maintenance list is
getting pretty small so I spend much of the day reading the latest Reacher book
by Lee Child. In the afternoon Susan and
the crew from Gypsy Wind hitched to Mulege.
Susan wanted to get some milk and more importantly get some internet
connection and send an all is well after the crossing message to mom and
dad. While she was gone I saw a small
sailboat very close to shore nearby. I
couldn’t tell with binoculars whether they were on the rocks or not so I hopped
in the dingy to investigate. When I got
there the guy from a small trawler “Lilianna” anchored nearby was trying to
pull the two guys in the 20 foot sailboat off the rocks. Turns out that he had already busted the
shear pin on his outboard. He cleared
away and I had the guys throw me a line.
I rigged a quick bridal and lined up to give a pull. Nothing. Had to
have one of the guys jump ashore and give a push. Once free, I towed them to their
mooring. One job and one rescue – that’s
a good day, back to my book for a bit before reading with Cooper and helping him
build a robot kit.
needlefish from previous post (glad it didn't stab anyone)
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