Archive for March, 2009
Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Puntarenas (cont…)
Well it looks like everything is in order with our batteries. Once we visit the Port Captain to obtain our ‘Zarpe’, we’ll be ready to continue on our journey. In Costa Rica, you are required to obtain clearance from the port captain even when you’re sailing from port to port within the country. Anyway going [...]
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Powered Up Once Again
Chris and I managed to rig a makeshift pulley with a snap shackle and the boom, and lowered the batteries into their new home through the aft cabin hatch. After checking through the setup options for our battery charger, we discovered an incorrect configuration. Once we flipped the ‘compensate for diode splitter’ dipswitch to the [...]
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Saturday, March 21st, 2009
Profundio Ciclo
Other cruisers have told us that it’s both difficult and expensive to find major parts here. When we first arrived at the Costa Rica Yacht club Carlos the club manager offered to help us source some new batteries. He got back to us the next morning informing us that we could only find wet-cell batteries, [...]
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
The Cruising Life
We’ve spent the last couple of weeks sailing up the coast of Costa Rica. There are of course good things and bad things about cruising here. On the positive side the water is deep turquoise, and you can spend all day watching the waves smashing against the black volcanic rocks. There are virtually no other [...]
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
Uninvited Guest On Board
Well it has been a while since I’ve updated this. We just got back from Panama where we met up with Chris’ parents and made sure they arrived at their apartment safely. We were away from the boat for about a month. There was absolutely nothing to worry about while we were gone; the boat [...]