Sunrise on Tuesday, February 7

The weather was back to cold and windy again. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, we mostly laid low in the marina. Eric finally completed a project that he’d started in San Diego: creating a system to better secure the anchor. Back in San Diego, Eric had bought a piece of 3/4″ starboard and had cut some slots in it to hold the anchor in place so it wouldn’t rattle around when the boat was in motion. He secured the board in place with some dyeema line that has an anti-chaffing sleeve cover over it and a clip. He strapped the line to the cleat on the deck.

Eric also filled up wing engine tank with fuel. And we forgot to mention that last week, we’d had a diver come clean the bottom. The water is simply too cold for us to do it ourselves right now.

In good news for family harmony, we found out that when you order food at a restaurant in the Costa Baja Resort, they can serve it to you at any of the other restaurants. Eric and Christi had both been wanting to eat at the Japanese place, but Keith was refusing to eat there again since he hadn’t liked his meal either time that we’d previously eaten there. Thanks to this policy, Keith was able to enjoy food that he liked while Christi and Eric enjoyed the large and delicious sushi rolls at the Japanese restaurant.

On Thursday night, we had dinner in the resort with two other younger cruising couples that were also in the marina at the moment. Here was the sun setting near the pool.