Whatever you want to call it, as of today things are not going as planned.
We were going to leave the dock today.
We were ready:
everything re-installed on the boat,
bottom painted,
outboard rebuilt,
outside washed and waxed,
inside cleaned,
provisioning done,
water, fuel and propane full,
van winterized and plugged in at storage place.
Got up early this morning, took showers, and did last minute check.
When Jim checked the bilge there was diesel visible.
Upon further investigation he found a leak in the fuel tank
that must have just started.
José, who works on boats at the docks and work yard here also
happens to have a fuel polishing business and years worth of
contacts. He said he could pump out the tank tomorrow in the work yard
and he called his pal who is a stainless genius (he built our new holding
tank about five years ago) and he said he could build us a new tank
in a couple of weeks.
So we checked with the Marina San Carlos office and they could haul
us out tomorrow at 8am. We then went back to the car storage
place to get our van, rented a storage locker to put all the excess stuff
that we were storing in the van (we will be staying in the van while the
boat is in the work yard), all the settee cushions, and all the stuff from
the lockers that are going to have to be taken apart to take out the
fuel tank.
We are not sure what this is going to do to our planned season, but once
the project gets underway we will alter our plans as required.
The good thing is we discovered the problem before we headed across to Baja
so we can take care of it where there are people that are capable of
doing the work that we need done.
Here are a few pictures of San Carlos........it's not all bad:)
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| Totanaka RV park where we stayed a few nights when we first arrived. It was quite empty, but it's filling up now and by January it will be overflowing. |
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| View from the van outside the work yard one morning when we woke up. |
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| Driving down the main street of San Carlos at sunset. |
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