Well, here we are in sunny (hot) La Paz... 31 degrees by mid-day... packing up our home so we can leave Shannon safely 'on the hard' at the Atalanta Boatyard. We get hauled out on Monday and, by then, need to have a myriad of things cleaned, serviced, sorted and packed or wrapped securely with U V resistant materials. It's not much fun now that the summer heat is arriving. Visions of working in the cooler morning hours and spending the afternoons at poolside have not materialized. So far we've been working from dawn to dusk with one quick dip in the pool late in the day to get our body temperatures down near normal. It's a long list (about 5 pages) of the things we need to do to prevent problems during the storage season... too long for this part of the Blog so I'll post it to the side once we're done. Princess Sophie is doing ok.. she's decided that life in her 'spot' in the cockpit isn't too bad now there's an electric fan pointing right at it. It's the coolest spot on the boat. She's handling the heat well and/but we soak her with the hose a couple of times a day...and she is learning to like that. She's made lots of friends here at the dock and, fortunately, one of them has offered to hang out with her on Monday while the boat's being lifted... which is great.
Anyway, that's all for now. I just wanted to let you know how we're doing.. and we're doing fine.. Friends of ours (Carol and Livia) on SV Estrellita (check out the link to their blog on the right of this page) have just arrived at the Marqueses. We're very proud of them. Other friends (Rick and Karen) on SV Sockdolager (link on the right) are also on route to the Marquese... in their Dana 24 (that's right.. a 24' boat) and their doing well, altho travelling slower.
Well... the dawn is coming and it's time to get back to work... talk later.. CJ
