September 17, 2021-700 Gallons of Free Water

wingssail images-fredrick roswold  Cooking in the rain

Right now it’s raining like hell.

That’s OK, we’re getting water in our tanks thanks to our great water catching system. Rainwater is sweet, much nicer to drink than the dock water we normally use to fill our tanks. That water is supposedly safe, and we did drink it for a few years, now we avoid it because it has a bad taste; we buy bottled water. But rain water…that is Sooo nice. Since August 1 when we got back to La Cruz we’ve collected about 700 gallons of sweet rain water and still counting! We have not had to buy water at all!

Yes, the season has been wet. We’ve had daily rains, often an inch or more. And we’ve had a near miss by a hurricane, which brought several inches.

But Hurricane Nora brought more than rain. It brought winds and waves. We were safe here in the marina but some boats had decided to weather the hurricane out in the anchorage. Two were lost.

La Cruz anchorage is not protected and not safe. Out of four boats out there three dragged their anchors. Two went aground and were wrecked. One was just dragged close to shore but in the end his anchor held. A fourth boat did not drag and held OK during the hurricane. We are glad we are not in the anchorage.

These boats were permitted to come into the marina for free but they declined. We don’t know why they choose that. Now two boat owners who lived on their boats are homeless. It is sad.

I am going to say this: In the last several years about seven boats have dragged ashore in this anchorage, onto the rocks, and all but one were total losses. Now here is the weird part, all were owned by single men, mostly men without much in the way of financial means. Guys without much money get boats on the cheap, they come to Mexico, and then they can’t afford to really take care of their boats, and too often, they lose them. I become disgusted when I think about that.

Other than hurricanes, rain, and boat wrecks,  things are pretty normal here. We’ve been doing boat projects, and gym workouts, not much else.

I think I’ll make some coffee and look outside and see how much rain is happening.

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Fred & Judy, SV Wings, La Cruz Mexico