Sunday, November 24, 2013 

Left San Blas at first light, calm day but a ground swell was on the beam causing us to roll quite a bit- Jan not happy, started the day out crying then the rest of the morning in bed. She came topside about lunch to relieve me, slept for a coupler of hours in cockpit, saw two pods of whales , one with over 10 . wind finally filled in from the north and we shut off the engine for the last two hours as we sailed into Banderas bay and to Marina La Cruz. Low batteries have been giving us a hard time. Having trouble getting charge back up after nearly killing them with the radio. Had trouble with watermaker but after a few hours of cursing it I discover that the overboard dump valve was turned to recirculate. At dock now, Jan still not happy as internet at the marina sucks. S despite all the cleaning we still have a funky mildew smell in the boat, more cleaning in the near future. Need new spark plug for genset, stripped the threads on the last one while working on engine. Overcast skies tonight but still hot. No breeze but the electric fans are working. Time zone change here.