Meanwhile back at the Village

Meanwhile back at the Village -SV Marionette Bruce returned from San Francisquito with his wife Katherine on board.  What a wonderful person she is!  She flew into the small airport in San Francisquito with a pilot friend of the folks on SV Manta.  She said the plane was full of provisions and parts for SV Manta.  It was a good flight from the States, they went through customs in San Felipe. 

Since Bruce had left the week before Doug had discovered rot in the aft shower.  At first it didn’t look so bad.  Doug had a shipwright fellow Scott from SV Ulalena come over and look at it.  He said don’t pull out anything else until you get to Santa Rosalia.  Well Doug loves to pick at things so he dug a little deeper then called Bruce over sine he had came back. Bruce is an expert at wood in distress and carries extra wood on board his classic wood boat.  Rumor is he sleeps with wood.  Bruce folded himself into the aft shower with a few tools and the rotten wood began to fly.  It smelled just like rotten house wood.  Soon it was out with the old and staged with a piece of replacement wood ready to be installed.  Bruce had to leave so Doug called Scott back today to cut the wood and reinstall all the pieces back into the shower.  The job is just about complete now, just needs a little varnish and it will be better than new!  It is really amazing the skill set of all these sailors out here.
Before SV Marionette left we enjoyed another feast from the sea on board Marionette with the folks from SV Puddytat.  We ate fried squid, squid ceviche, and curried cabrilla.  Another amazing dinner.  We had a regular UN meeting with the countries of New Zealand, Morocco, UK, Zimbabwe and the USA.  Some of these folks actually had more than 1 passport.  Once again we were not able to solve all the worlds problems and I think came up with a few more immigration issues.