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Log for Cabo San Lucas:

12/25/99 - Christmas with Tia and the Maggini family. We have a restaurant cook SeaBass (that the Magginis caught) five different ways and served family style. If you're in Cabo, have the Greek Style Snapper at the Blue Turtle, and there's a great tuna dinner that we get rare at the middle restaurant in Plaza Bonita for $10, at Alexander's.

1/1/2000 - Boat suffers no Y2K problems except Kathy (houseguest from San Diego) and I discover that the 22 year old windlass (to take up the anchor) has a massive short. This is #4 cable the length of the boat and can carry 60 amps of 12V. I had been taking up the anchor and thinking that the anchor gloves were full of squid tentacles, because my hands were getting shocked. We go fishing and motorsailing all morning. Haven't caught a thing in Cabo with lures. Going to switch to live bait. No Yellowfin Tuna in Cabo this season for some reason. Locals say they're out in the ocean somewhere, just not here.

1/8/2000 - Lots of work on the boat. Changed the oil/filter in engine and generator. Engine setup is not great to get to the water pump impeller. I have to take off the oil filter and more to get to it. Exhaust water seems less than usual, but it's because I was taking water off the raw water loop before it got to the heat exhanger on the engine to run through the stuffing box.
Also late at night I hear a water explosion and the fresh water pump running continuously, so I shut that down quickly. One of the hoses in my bathroom had worked itself loose. Next day mysterious water spot on my bedroom carpet is from the leak on the fitting I hadn't tightened enough. Also fixed low fresh water pressure problem by cleaning intake screens in the water tank. Today I put on a quick coat of varnish. This is a landmark day as I remove the hideous black tape from the steering wheel and find perfect wood underneath. I clean and varnish that and it looks fabulous. Tape had only been there to mark wheel center.

4/Enero/2000 - We've seen off all our holiday company and are getting back to normal life. Which is: surf first thing in the morning off the boat; on the way back troll for fish; perhaps in the afternoon go to Lover's Beach and rock climb, or just rest sore muscles. This life is so much excercise. Rowing the dinghy, mooring the boat in a little wind. Once I moored the stern of the boat by swimming 100 feet of line to the buoy. But I needed 200 feet, so I was swimming and towing the boat for about twenty minutes. Frits will remember I judge distances poorly. Once on Santa Rosa Island I gave him 200 feet of line to row the dinghy 400 feet into a headwind (He pressed on and made the beach after I tied on the rest of the line in 6 pieces).