It's been a busy three days here in Marina de La Paz. A lot goes into preparing for an open ocean passage. Equipment, food, fuel, water, baggage and figuring out where to put it all. Quijote normally carries 90 gallons of fuel and 110 gallons of water in her tanks. Mark wants to carry half again that much of each, which means tying jugs onto the deck. And where do we get 10 five gallon fuel jugs? Where do we store all that extra water? Where there’s a will there’s a way. The last time this crew crossed the Pacific, they arrived with an empty water tank, so I can hardly blame them for their caution.
Granted Quijote has a watermaker to desalinate sea water, but water makers are notoriously unreliable. This one has cost me many more hours of maintenance than hours of production. It was working when we used it last year, but will it work when we need it this year? Time will tell.
In the mean time: who's in the market for 10 five gallon fuel jugs when we get to Seattle?
Good luck, smooth seas, and fair winds to you Rod, that beautiful vessel Quijote, and the crew upon her.
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