Season Three on SOLASTRA

Tetakawi/Teta de Cabra in the background. February 14th, Valentine’s Day, Rick decided we would take the day off from working on the boat and take a hike up to Cerro del Tetakawi (native Yaqui language for “rocky mountains”) aka Teta de Cabra (goat tit). We can see this San Carlos icon every day on our drive to Marina Real (where the boat is in the work yard) and you can see it off in the distance from just about anywhere in San Carlos. And each time we drive past the trailhead to Tetakawi we always say that we should hike up to the top one day. What better day than Valentine’s Day! So after eating a small bowl of fruit, topped with a dollop of yogurt & a few walnuts (not the best pre-hike/mountain climbing meal…which we came to realize later), we exchanged Valentine’s Day cards and headed out. We made a quick stop at the OXXO for two small bottles of water and then drove down the road a bit and parked the car in the designated parking area for hikers making the hike up t...

Since my last post, I mentioned Rick was in the process of putting in a fridge/freezer (an Alder Barbour Marine Refrigeration System). Well the next day on the 22nd of January, he completed the project! We now have a working fridge and freezer that is not engine driven. It only requires 12 volt batteries in order to work, which keep their charge through the solar panels and or the wind generator.  One to check off of our list of to-do’s! The next day, Rick was feeling very ambitious and decided to start tearing off the teak decks. What a mess this was! After Rick pulled up some of the teak from the bow area, he decided he’d better check with the Marina office to see if this was permissible, since they have very strict rules about what you can and cannot do on the docks. The office manager, gave us the OK. He told us that would be fine just as long as we did not sand, paint or weld! Rick was off and running after this bit of news. He ended up tearing the entire cock-pit...