Best Laid Plans

San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico

We are scheduled to leave the dock here tomorrow morning.

Here comes the bus to San Carlos

For the last few days we have been making trips to the local grocery stores (a brand new Santa-Fe market has opened just a block away from the marina and a new Leys Express within walking distance).  We also took the bus into Guaymas to get a few things at Walmart that are not available in the local stores, and bought a bunch of fish, shrimp and scallops off the back of a pickup truck here in the parking lot. At this point, we are well provisioned for a couple of months.  I have re-patched the dinghy and am ready to put it to the test.

Suddenly the weather has turned against us.  After 10 days of predictable calm mornings and light afternoon winds, a big blow is forecast for tomorrow - 30 knot winds and big seas!  So chances are we are not going to leave in the morning.  I have talked to the marina and they say they can fit us in somewhere for a few more days - the dock we are at right now was reserved for a big boat supposedly coming in tomorrow so we can't stay there.  Of course it is Sunday today and it is difficult to get any firm answers about anything until tomorrow.

Just to break up the monotony, this cool-looking catamaran docked next to us for a single night.  We have never seen such a rig before - a two-masted Cat-rigged catamaran.  And to top it off, it is a 36 foot boat that folds it's 24-foot width onto an 8-foot wide trailer.  I couldn't resist going over and lending a hand with the haul out, just to see how this all works.

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