Culebra, Puerto Rico

After spending the night at Buck Island we motorsailed over to Isla Culebra, one of the Spanish Virgin Islands. Unfortunately one of our engines is down for the count and is puffing out black smoke in the exhaust. This is the engine where we used Kevin's dress sock as the air filter, so at first we thought maybe it wasn't getting enough air flow, but taking off the sock didn't stop the smoke. So now we think it may be an injector problem. It's always something... Anyway, luckily our other engine worked fine; it's nice to have the redundancy of two engines.

We anchored just off the town of Dewey because they have decent wireless internet here. Starwood Hotels has a programming project that Kevin is doing some work on, so we needed to be sure there was good wifi. Starwood also has another project that starts in May and would require both of us, so we've decided to go ahead and haul the boat earlier than planned and head home to Phoenix for the next six months. It all works out: the tenants just moved out of our house, Starwood has some interesting work for us to do, and most importantly it is starting to get hot and humid which is our least favorite boat weather. So we've pushed up our boat storage plans and have commenced a major "eat down" to empty the freezer and pantry. We haul out on Sunday and will spend three days getting the boat prepped for hurricane season before we fly home on Thursday (Boris's first plane ride, that'll be fun). Then we'll just need to buy some acceptable work clothing, since we gave everything to Goodwill before we left for the boat...cut-offs and flip-flops aren't considered business casual, are they?

Where we are:
Location=Isla Culebra, Puerto Rico
Lat=18 18.365
Lon=65 17.851