Biagio came back to Gem in November. While we were gone, hurricane Jimena visited Guaymas dumping over 40 inches of rain within a 24 hr. time period. Our sun screens from the outside windows where they well tied down but missing. The overall sun covers were all taken off by the marina staff expecting to save them from being shredded. Other than that, nothing was damaged.
Biagio sailed
from Guaymas on the land side back down to LaPaz on the Baja California
peninsula side. I flew in to Cabo with 4 suitcases mostly full of things for
the boat...sail tape, motors, parts, sunbrella fabric, fishing lures, and an
Xbox.
Did you know it
takes an Xbox to sail???!!??? That's what Biagio told me. It took up a whole
smaller suitcase. I was fortunate to get picked up in a REAL CAR
at the airport. Liz and Michael drove down with their car from Seattle so
Michael and Biagio drove the 3 1/2 hr. one way trip to pick me up. So nice....
As far as being back on the boat, it was like I had never been on the
boat before...only seen a lot of photos of it. It was VERY surreal. And I
didn't have any sea legs at all. (Six months off the boat.) I felt like every
time I would get in or out of the dinghy I was likely to fall in. Couldn't
remember how to drive the dinghy or start it at all, I'm still looking for
switches to turn things on and off, etc. So strange..... But I'm getting used
to it and staying dry.
Photos of Christmas time in Seattle before leaving for LaPaz.
