S/V Loomba-Loomba

We are set to leave the dock at Marina San Carlos tomorrow morning, drop the hook in the bay for a few hours, and then head across to Baja (San Juanico, Isla Coronados, or Puerto Escondido depending on wind direction and sea state).  Hopefully our plan works this time! While we were here Omar put in a pump and bypass to make it easier  to bleed the engine and he rebuilt the raw water pump and the spare.  The weather did not cooperate for a speedy departure.  It has been cold and windy with 20-30 knot winds blowing through the bay  most afternoons. With only a day or two between wind events  the seas never have a chance to lay down. We are looking at a good, but short, window to get across the  Sea of Cortez tomorrow so we are going for it.  Here are a few photos of our January stay in San Carlos: Jim spent almost three hours one morning at the top of the mast. He installed a new wind instrument. He first had to remove the old bracket, splice the new cable

--> Loomba-Loomba is back in the water .   We flew to Phoenix from Seattle on December 31, spent a few days with Drew, and then drove to San Carlos on January 3rd where L-L was in the work yard. We got ready for the mechanic on the 4 th , Omar (the mechanic) came on the 5 th to bleed the engine and do some other engine related work and when he was done we washed the boat. It rained really hard the morning of the 6th and Jim cleaned the bottom in the afternoon. We splashed at 8am on the 7 th .   We are now at the Marina San Carlos dock getting the inside of the boat reorganized, doing some provisioning, getting the van ready to store, installing a new wind instrument at the top of the mast, and waiting for a weather window to cross over to Baja. It was a very busy and fun December in the Pacific Northwest. We left L-L in the storage yard in San Carlos, drove the van to Drew’s house in Phoenix, and flew to Seattle on December 3 rd . Most of the time we were at the kids