Merry Christmas & Wishing you a Joyous New Year

While we are happily afloat at the dock in Guaymas once again this Christmas season, it provides us time to reflect on this amazing year. We are thankful for so much in our lives! Our many friends – both south and north, our families – distant though they are, the staff at the Fonatur boatyard, and the multiple vendors who help us stay afloat. The list goes on and on… 

Wiring in the new batteries, happy full
days in the engine room for the Cap'n

Installing repaired water pump

Up the mast with Doug's help

Early Christmas in Nogales AZ, picking up our new batteries

The Ups and Downs of Boat-Love

We continue to enjoy the ups and downs of our boating lives on Pura Vida - from the top of the mast installing a new navigation light, to the hull installing a new zinc on the freshly polished prop – to every pump and part installation in between.

New curtains, thanks to Marion's sewing skills

Oscar & Mario tearing out the old nasty walls and
pink insulation

Judy removing the port bezels before tearing down
the old wall coverings

New walls in sleeping area and our V-berth - nice 
to get rid of the 47 year old vinyl and rusty staples

And then there's the interesting lifestyle in Mexico - very different from our "first world problems".

Sunsets never cease to amaze and astound us

Sunrise the next morning across San Carlos Bay

Truckload of workers on their way home

This year's display features Cheetohs

Ready to launch, the travel lift is 
approaching from the stern
to haul us to the ramp